La Cigale
A REAL PLACE TO EXCHANGE, SHARE AND DISCOVER RIGHT DOWN MONTMARTRE.
A CONCERT HALL FULL OF HISTORY
136 years of passion, vibrations and emotions
La Cigale, music lover
After a forced break due to Covid, La Cigale is back.
It maintains its status as an iconic concert venue, welcoming the very best of the French and international scene.
Its eclectic line-up (Billie Eilish, Ibrahim Maalouf, Benjamin Biolay, Gad Elmaleh, STOMP, Paul Mirabel) leaves some space for the rap scene : Lala&ce, Lous and The Yakuza, Chilla, SCH, Gozo, Tiakola, Hamza, Dinos, Oboy…
The unmissable
In the 2010s, La Cigale is the place for pioneering artists. The majority of whom played at La Cigale have now exceeded one billion streams :
Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran.
Another symbol of success : directors like Woody Allen for “Midnight in Paris” benefit from the venue’s beauty to set up their cameras.
The passion to stage artists and the passion to host them receive
La Cigale reveals artists who today became unmissable ; Prince, Gorillaz, Manu Chao, Franz Ferdinand, Justin Timberlake, Booba, Justice, Diam’s, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Le venue preaches innovation by hosting atypical events, such as fashion shows : Jean Paul Gaultier, Comme des Garçons, Isabel Marant and others.
New beginning
In the excitement of the 80s, Jacques Renaud and Fabrice Coat, co-founders of the club “Les Bains Douches”, take over the venue and delegate to the designer Philippe Starck, the transformation and modernisation of the place.
La Cigale becomes a staple for emerging and established artists, consolidating the myth of a benchmarked scene where people come to seek consecration.
Numerous French and international artists went to the Cigale, such as : Les Rita Mitsouko, Iggy Pop, Texas, Oasis, Mano Negra, Phoenix, Johnny Hallyday, Assassin, Radiohead, Jacques Higelin, Alain Bashung, Indochine, Boyz II men, Yannick Noah, Jamel Debbouze, Kylie Minogue, NTM…
The music-hall years
In 1887, in Pigalle, La Cigale sang its first song in front of a thousand spectators. It shakes up its range of shows: sketches, dance, music.
Like its prestigious neighbor Le Moulin Rouge, it was hosting famous cancan dancers: La Goulue, Rigolboche etc…
The operettas and vaudevilles followed one another until 1927 with Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier and Arletty and many more.
Since 1887, La Cigale never closed its doors and kept transforming itself, and renewed through the great advances of its time.
First a café-concert, then a music hall, she becomes “La Cigale Cinema” for 60 years… before to turn into a concert hall in 1987 that we know nowadays.