Mathias Malzieu - Tournée

Radiant-Bellevue welcomes Mathias Malzieu

From our stage in Caluire-et-Cuire, the heart of Radiant-Bellevue beats a little faster at the prospect of hosting Mathias Malzieu and his nouvelle tournée. As a venue built for narrative-rich, high-impact live performance, we are preparing a scenography that embraces his trademark blend of musical storytelling, poetry, and cinematic imagination. Our team is shaping a sound design that carries from an intimate whisper to a jubilant roar, ideal for a set that can pass from delicate chanson to full-band euphoria in a single breath. Expect a journey across eras of inspiration: recent songs that fans cherish such as Surprisier, alongside the enduring pulse of Vampire en pyjama and the sparkling theatricality of Flamme à lunettes. The hall’s lines of sight and flexible lighting grid will be tuned to his fantastical universe—shadowplay, warm hues, and starry bursts—to frame each lyric vignette like a scene from an illustrated novel. In our room, Malzieu’s ability to make a concert feel like a living book should come vividly to life, inviting the audience into a dreamlike conversation between word, melody, and image.

Artistic news and the live format at Radiant-Bellevue

Part of the excitement of welcoming Malzieu is the creative momentum he brings with him. His multidisciplinary path—frontman, writer, and filmmaker—feeds the stage with fresh textures and stories. Recent years have seen him continue to nurture the imaginative thread that runs from the pages of Une sirène à Paris to the concert lights, and from the confessional energy of Vampire en pyjama to new musical sketches born on the road. The tournée gives him space to revisit and renew: a refrain may arrive with unexpected instrumentation, a spoken interlude might open into a song, and images conjured by his literary work can be felt in the arrangements. At Radiant-Bellevue, we are crafting an immersive production that lets those cross-currents breathe—moments of stillness for close listening, and larger waves that carry the audience together. Inside the auditorium, our acoustic profile will reveal the grain of his voice, the shimmer of strings, and the heartbeat of percussion, but also preserve the hush that often precedes his most luminous lines. We anticipate a setlist that threads Surprisier with other recent pieces he has been performing, while making space for the irresistibly melodic Flamme à lunettes and the nocturnal voltage of Vampire en pyjama, creating a dialogue between the present tense of the tournée and the pillars of his repertoire.

For us as a venue, the live experience is a craft of details, and Malzieu’s world rewards attention at every scale. The stage at Radiant-Bellevue will be arranged to support swift shifts in tone—pocket corners for intimate solos, open space for collective crescendos—and lighting cues that paint each number with its own compass of color. We shape our audience flow to favor immersion: a welcoming foyer that sets the mood, a smooth transition into the hall, and a seating plan designed to keep sightlines clean whether the music leans into whispering poetry or festival-spark fireworks. Our technicians are rehearsing cues to sync visual accents with musical dynamics, reinforcing that cinematic feeling Malzieu conjures so well. As the tournée unfolds here, we expect the narrative DNA of his recent projects to surface: twilit love songs, fables with a pop heartbeat, and buoyant, surreal images that make his concerts feel like pocket universes. When Surprisier rings out, it is shaped like an invitation; when a more nocturne passage gestures toward Vampire en pyjama, the room naturally narrows to hold the poetry close; when Flamme à lunettes lifts, the hall can glow as though the story has just turned a page. Every element of our preparation is focused on amplifying that sensation—of crossing a threshold into a show that is as much a story as it is a set of songs—so that, for one night at Radiant-Bellevue, imagination and sound meet at the brightest possible point.