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Paris hub : weekly venues plus summer Peacock Society
Astropolis (Brest), running since 1995
Coast festivals : Delta (Marseille), Family Piknik (Montpellier)
Dominant format : open-air summer festivals (July-August)

The Paris hub

Up north, Paris carries the institutional venues : Rex Club, T7, FVTVR, Kilomètre 25. The capital programmes year-round and absorbs most of the bookings that don't fit a single festival weekend.

Peacock Society at the Parc Floral in July is the local summer anchor.

The summer festivals

To the west, Brest runs Astropolis since 1995, one of the few French techno festivals to cross three decades without losing its curatorial edge. South, Marseille hosts Delta Festival on the Prado beaches in early July, and Montpellier holds Family Piknik in August at the Parc des Expositions, with a daytime open-air built around a serious Hard Stage.

The South-West carries Fort Décibel near Bordeaux and Resonance in the Basque Country ; the Vaucluse has POSITIV in Orange ; the Drôme its Electrolapse weekend.

Year-round and afters

Beyond the festival circuit, the scene runs on year-round club nights, denser in Paris than anywhere else. Parisian afters have shifted toward Seine-Saint-Denis since the closing of Concrete ; in Marseille they stay in the centre ; in Lyon, Le Sucre still runs the institutional club night.

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club x Encore: Clouds, Evian Christ, Earth From Space

Evian Christ · Clouds · Earth From Space

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Paris

10 Oct

DJ Masda - all night long

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Which cities can I go out in?

calrave tracks the scene in Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Paris, Toulouse. Tap a city for its upcoming club nights, festivals and open airs.

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