Putain De Renaud - Pas Un Hommage, Une Révérence !

Welcoming Putain de Renaud, pas un hommage, une révérence

From our vantage point in Bourse du Travail Lyon, we are preparing the stage for a night shaped by devotion to songwriting, lived memories, and unfiltered poetry. Putain de Renaud, pas un hommage, une révérence invites audiences to experience a collection of voices and instruments that lean in close to the material—letting its grit, tenderness, and sly humor breathe. Rather than replicate, this performance curates; it chooses textures over mimicry, narrative over nostalgia, and the thrill of presence over facsimile. You will recognize the contours of the repertoire you love, but they arrive reframed, with arrangements that draw out phrasing, accents, and the delicate balances between ballad and bash, fury and lullaby. Our team has worked to shape the evening like a concert-theater encounter: sightlines tuned for intimacy, sound tailored for clarity of text, and transitions designed to carry you from one emotional climate to another while keeping the heartbeat of the room steady and warm.

The artist today: songs that keep breathing

Part of the pleasure in hosting this project is witnessing how the artist’s living news keeps resonating with audiences of different generations. The recent arc of releases and stage returns has refreshed attention on verses that feel both immediate and timeless. The album Métèque rekindled Renaud’s dialogue with the wider chanson heritage, reminding listeners that his own writing sits comfortably alongside the giants he admires. At the same time, the late-period originals continue to pulse through the public space: Toujours debout holds its place as a defiant, affectionate check-in; J’ai embrassé un flic remains a daring and witty snapshot; and Les animals hums with playful, sly commentary. Onstage echoes of Dans mes cordes—its appetite for stripped-back intimacy—inform the spirit of this evening as well: a preference for words in the foreground, for silences that mean something, and for the shared breath of a room leaning toward a story well told.

Within this setting, Putain de Renaud, pas un hommage, une révérence maps a journey from asphalt to café table, from protest to lullaby. Expect the ensemble to move freely between decades, letting early cornerstones brush against later flashes so that meaning accumulates in the contrasts. A tender hush may open to a burst of chorus as Mistral gagnant passes the baton to Toujours debout; a stark vignette can spark into collective recognition when Manhattan-Kaboul, Morgan de toi, or Dès que le vent soufflera unfurl their familiar cadences. The evening is built to celebrate the grain of the voice—whoever is holding the microphone in the moment—and the craft of musicians who know when to leave a line bare and when to lift it with harmonies, brass, or a sudden guitar growl. At Bourse du Travail Lyon we cherish that alchemy: a room that listens, performers who dare to reimagine without betraying, and a repertoire that keeps finding new ways to talk to the present.