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

At Le Boui-Boui: welcoming Félix Le Braz with Flashback Generation VHS

From our stage at Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we’re thrilled to host Félix Le Braz and his spirited new show, Flashback Generation VHS, a warm, witty plunge into the glow of cathode rays, rental cards, and those unmistakable tape-click rhythms that scored entire childhoods. In our intimate room, Félix turns the shared language of the analog age into fast, generous comedy—observational runs, deft character beats, and a playful rapport with the audience that feels tailor-made for our close quarters. He rewinds to living-room screenings and school-yard swaps, to the ritual of setting a timer on a VCR and the urban myth of a chewed-up tape—then presses play on how those old habits shape the way we stream, swipe, and curate today. The atmosphere is pure Le Boui-Boui: laughter traveling in waves, references to Saturday morning cartoons and dubbed blockbusters landing with a knowing spark, and the mischievous music of tracking screens, remote controls, and tape labels weaving through the set. The result is a live experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly sharp, all in the crisp immediacy of our room.

Félix Le Braz, right now: a creator in motion

On this run, Félix Le Braz is in full creative flow, and Flashback Generation VHS keeps evolving as he adds beats sparked by what audiences bring him. The show’s architecture is solid, but he loves sneaking in fresh callbacks and side quests, which is why fans have already started nicknaming favorite passages: “Rembobinage Express,” “Le Tracking qui Déraille,” “Soirée Vidéo Club,” and “Caméscope Brigade” are the bits people talk about at the bar after the show. Between dates, he keeps the analog universe alive with short-form sketches—think “Autocollants Interdits” and “La Bande qui Siffle”—that echo the stage material while testing out new angles. What we admire from our vantage point at Le Boui-Boui is the balance: affectionate nostalgia set against a contemporary eye for how pop culture shaped our behaviors, from the monoculture of prime-time to the tender awkwardness of home videos. That dual lens makes the humor land with audiences who actually lived through cassette life and with younger spectators discovering its textures for the first time. In our room, where every glance meets a face and every chuckle can turn into a riff, Félix lets each performance breathe, building a one-night-only cut of his rewind that keeps Lyon’s crowd right in the pocket.

What delights us most, as hosts, is the generosity of the performance and the way Félix folds the audience into his montage. A stray shout of a forgotten jingle becomes a musical cue; a half-remembered movie night becomes a shared confession about recording over family videos; the collective memory of pencil-spun spools turns into a physical bit that has the whole room miming the same satisfying turn. Flashback Generation VHS thrives in a space like Le Boui-Boui, where proximity turns recognition into laughter and nostalgia into momentum. The set glides from physical comedy—the click and clunk of inserting a cassette, the panicked slap of a tape that won’t eject—to narrative sprints that braid earlier motifs into a late-show crescendo, the kind that makes time feel elastic. If your 90s were punctuated by video clubs, FNAC bags, and late-night channel surfing, Félix will hit bullseye after bullseye; and if your first screen was a smartphone, he opens a playful door into an analog prehistory that still speaks to how we connect, remember, and laugh together in Lyon, right here at Le Boui-Boui.