Yelle - 20th Anniversary Tour

Yelle 20th Anniversary Tour at Transbordeur

At Transbordeur, we are thrilled to welcome Yelle for the Yelle 20th Anniversary Tour, a celebratory homecoming for an artist who has helped define a generation of electro-pop. Our venue was built for joyous, high-energy nights like this—an open floor where the bassline travels as a single wave through the crowd, clean sightlines that keep the stage in focus from every spot, and a light rig ready to mirror the neon sheen and playful edge of Yelle’s world. From the first synth stab to the final encore, we aim to shape an immersive experience in which rhythm, color, and voice weave into a vibrant, communal dance. Expect agile, precise sound tuned for crystalline vocals and bold, punchy drums, a room that breathes with the music, and a team dedicated to making the evening flow as effortlessly as the beats that have carried Yelle from club stages to festival fields around the globe.

An artist in motion: current creative era

Two decades on, Yelle remains a beacon of forward-thinking pop, an artist who can turn a razor-sharp hook into a heartfelt confession without losing the sparkle of the dancefloor. Recent years have affirmed that evolution: songs like Je t’aime encore reveal a tender, introspective thread woven through the project’s sleek production, while J’veux un chien and Karaté snap with playful wit and percussive agility. Earlier favorites such as Ba$$in, Ici & Maintenant, and Interpassion continue to resonate in fresh live arrangements, sitting comfortably alongside the technicolor rush of Safari Disco Club and the glossy exuberance of Complètement fou. Yelle’s stagecraft distills this history into something immediate: smart choreography that flashes like punctuation, minimalist gestures that invite participation, and arrangements that reframe familiar melodies with new textures. For us at Transbordeur, hosting this tour means presenting a living retrospective—one that honors the project’s MySpace-era spark and celebrates its present-day finesse—while giving fans a chance to hear the catalog with contemporary punch, warmth, and an intimate, conversational presence that only a room like ours can magnify.

The show at Transbordeur has been conceived as a generous sweep through the Yelle songbook, connecting early breakthroughs with the sleek modernity of the latest cuts. We expect the floor to surge for Je veux te voir and À cause des garçons, lift into communal chant on Ce jeu, and dive into the luminous pulse of Safari Disco Club. When the lights narrow and the tempo breathes, the quiet clarity of Je t’aime encore will carry differently in our hall—closer, more tactile—before the set vaults back into the aerodynamic pop of J’veux un chien and the precision strikes of Karaté. The bounce and bite of Ba$$in, the nocturnal shimmer of Ici & Maintenant, and the kinetic snap of Interpassion are built to bloom in our acoustics. We’ll frame each transition with crisp lighting cues, saturating the room in saturated color blocks and mirror flashes that echo the music’s playful contrasts. From doors to last note, our goal is simple: give Yelle the space and fidelity to let every synth, syllable, and heartbeat land, and give the audience the perfect environment to sing, move, and celebrate twenty years of unfettered pop invention at Transbordeur.