Félix Le Braz - Flashback - Génération Vhs - Le Boui Boui Lyon

Félix Le Braz brings Flashback Generation VHS to Le Boui-Boui

At Le Boui-Boui, we are delighted to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS, a show tailor-made for our intimate stage and for audiences who love quick-fire storytelling with a nostalgic twist. From the moment the lights dim, he rewinds to an era of tape hiss, tracking lines and Friday-night trips to the video store, juggling characters and sound cues with a precision that feels both cinematic and joyfully homemade. Our room’s closeness turns every aside, every whisper about a stubborn “tête de lecture,” into shared complicity. Expect a cascade of memories—Tamagotchis rescued between classes, game cartridges blown clean before a level boss, school notebooks covered in logos, the clack of a cassette snapped into a Walkman—and the kind of improvisation that makes each performance at Le Boui-Boui unique. Félix Le Braz excels at that elastic rhythm: a volley of jokes, a beat of silence, a grin, and then a punchline that hits like a perfectly timed pause button. In our space, you’ll catch the micro-expressions and the micro-sounds, the rewinds, fast-forwards, and glitchy “snow” he turns into punchlines. Flashback Generation VHS is not just a theme; it’s a live mixtape assembled in real time.

On his current wave and the pulse of the show at our venue

Right now, Félix Le Braz is in a prolific moment, and Flashback Generation VHS captures it with a string of set-piece ideas that work beautifully in the up-close atmosphere of Le Boui-Boui. He sketches out mini-episodes with the accuracy of a storyboard—bits he’s been teasing with titles like “Retour au vidéoclub,” “Pause C+ cryptée,” “3615 nostalgie,” “Le prof de techno,” and “Réparer une K7 avec un crayon.” He peppers the hour with sly nods to contemporary pop culture too, tipping his hat to the spirit of émissions like LOL: Qui rit, sort! and Burger Quiz while contrasting them with the analog rituals of the 80s–90s. The writing is brisk and playful, but what stands out on our stage is the physicality: the way he mimes the stubborn SCART cable that never quite fits, the frantic buffering of a 56k modem translated into body language, or the sudden shift into a teacher’s cadence that drops the room into collective déjà vu. The show’s arc keeps building—small domestic memories turn epic, and tiny sounds (a door buzzer, a tape rewind, the click of a console) become musical cues. In the hands of Félix Le Braz at Le Boui-Boui, these vignettes feel as fresh as they are familiar.

As a room that thrives on proximity, we’ve seen how Félix Le Braz uses Le Boui-Boui’s scale to spark a delightful back-and-forth with the audience. In Flashback Generation VHS, he often invites the crowd to “press play” with him: a chorus of jingle memories here, a friendly debate there about the best cheat codes, the eternal Console A vs. Console B rivalry, or whose family labeled tapes with the most cryptic notes. He leans into local color without forcing it, riffing on Lyonnaise habits and turning our neighborhood rhythms into spontaneous callbacks throughout the set. The result is a one-night-only cut of the show—improvised tags, playful audience cameos, and sequences that morph on the fly, like “Brancher la Péritel,” “La grand-mère et le magnétoscope,” or “Menu Démarrer 95,” reshuffled depending on the room’s energy. In our seats, you feel the craftsmanship: the build, the release, the precision of a punchline timed to an imaginary VHS counter. It’s stand-up that doubles as live foley art, a memory palace you can hear. At Le Boui-Boui, Flashback Generation VHS becomes a communal viewing party where the screen is your imagination, and Félix Le Braz is both projectionist and prankster.