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

At Le Boui-Boui: a night built for analog nostalgia and live laughter

From our stage at Le Boui-Boui in Lyon, we are thrilled to welcome Félix Le Braz with Flashback, Génération VHS, a live experience tailor-made for our intimate room and its taste for quicksilver, up-close comedy. Our venue’s close quarters are not just a setting; they are part of the show’s chemistry. The soft hum of anticipation, the closeness between artist and audience, and the palpable sense of shared memory all amplify a performance rooted in the tactile joys and comic tragedies of the tape era. Here, the punchlines land faster, the callbacks resonate longer, and the audience’s reactions feed the momentum that Félix cultivates with ease. Expect a night where the glow of a CRT feels almost tangible, where the whirr of a VCR finds its echo in collective laughter, and where the spirit of Lyon’s live scene—curious, playful, and generous—meets a storyteller who thrives on connection.

Flashback, Génération VHS at close range

Flashback, Génération VHS is a love letter to a pre-streaming adolescence, and Le Boui-Boui is the perfect magnifying glass for that letter’s ink. Félix Le Braz guides the room through a swirl of vivid scenes: the solemn ritual of choosing a cassette at the video club, the existential dread of a rewind fee, the delicate art of fixing “tracking lines” with a fingertip on the remote, and the family politics of recording over a treasured tape. The timeline is packed with cultural waypoints—expect winks to Club Dorothée, Nulle Part Ailleurs, Vidéo Gag, and the supermarket shrine that was the home-electronics aisle—woven into storytelling that never leans solely on nostalgia. Instead, Félix mines the habits, mistakes, and tiny triumphs that made analog life ridiculous and strangely heroic. He plays with language, sound, and silhouette—using the hiss of static as a setup, the clack of a tape door as a punchline—to build a rhythm that fits our stage like a glove. Audience exchanges are part of the architecture: a remembered jingle here, a shared confession of broken cassettes there, all folded back into a narrative that keeps the room buoyant. In our space, even a sideways glance reads like a set piece, and Félix uses that intimacy to create laughter that spreads in concentric waves—starting from the front row and rolling all the way to the bar.

As a performer, Félix Le Braz arrives at Le Boui-Boui with a momentum that shows in his writing and timing. Flashback, Génération VHS is touring widely, but what our audience will catch is a version sharpened by recent encounters with crowds who bring their own memories into the set—people who still remember labeling tapes, who lived through the mythos of the “SP/LP/EP” choice, and who can honestly say they tried to repair a ribbon with nothing but a pencil and hope. His current creative streak favors modular storytelling—tight chunks that stand alone yet link together, steadily escalating from playful recollection to full-blown scene-work. It’s a format that travels well but blooms best in close quarters, which is why Le Boui-Boui takes particular pride in hosting him here in Lyon. Expect Félix to thread in new tags and fresh angles that reflect the season’s tour energy: riffs on how the VHS mindset shapes our streaming-era patience, playful takes on the difference between curated scarcity and infinite scroll, and crowd prompts that unlock micro-memories—from Saturday-morning TV rituals to the family code words everyone used for the “good” blank tapes. Fans who follow contemporary stand-up will recognize the craftsmanship in the transitions, the callback architecture, and the way he turns a simple prop reference—like a scuffed cassette sleeve—into a full, living scene. Our team has tuned the room for clarity and warmth so those details read from every seat, and we’re ready to welcome you for an evening where the past feels close enough to touch, and the laughter feels unmistakably present.