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The Bikini will host a Boiler Room on February 28. Tickets sold out very quickly for this popular electro evening, the concept of which is known worldwide. Explanations.
Tickets sold out in record time. The Boiler Room evening, scheduled for Friday February 28 at Bikini, near Toulouse, had no difficulty in being sold out. Regardless of the programming, the name of Boiler Room is enough to excite fans of electro evenings, who rush to the ticket office in the hope of being there. But what is it exactly?
Launched in 2010, this London project organizes electro concerts and DJ sets in small groups, which it films and broadcasts on the internet. On the Boiler Room Youtube channel, with 4.5 million subscribers, each video has millions of views. Carl Cox, Laurent Garnier, Jamie XX, Nina Kraviz, Solomun, Richie Hawtin… The prestigious names parade on the screen. They play in hype clubs or dream spots in the open air, right in the middle of the public, filmed continuously by small cameras.
Little by little, the concept developed and the tours multiplied, until it achieved enormous success all over the world, from Vietnam to Brazil via the United States and Europe. “It has become a machine, it is the strongest evening brand in the world,” confides Antoine Fantuz, the programmer of the Bikini, delighted to be one of the rare French clubs to participate.
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This is the third time that the Bikini has hosted a Boiler Room. The two previous editions, in November 2019 (Bamao Yendé, Kabylie Minogue, Kendal) and November 2021 (François X, Félicie, Arabian Panther and Elise Massoni) were successes. In February, he will welcome Juicy Romance, Mischluft and Sim0ne, three artists scheduled as part of Boiler Room’s Hard Dance tour. Toulouse is one of ten dates booked in Europe, alongside Munich, Hamburg, Dublin, Rome, Budapest, Oslo, etc. The Ramonville venue has added two artists of its own to the line-up, the Toulouse-born Kate and the Parisian KRL MX.
Each time, the evening takes place on the same principle. The turntables are installed in the middle of the floor, and the DJs perform four hours of sets, lasting one hour each. The musical DNA of these evenings remains electro in the broad sense, techno and house essentially. But most spectators will not necessarily know the artists present in advance. “People love it so much, they absolutely want to be there, dancing on the video alongside the DJ,” continues Antoine Fantuz. “It’s a concept that was launched when social networks were exploding.”
For the Ramonville venue, hosting a Boiler Room is an opportunity not to be missed: “In terms of recognition, in the electro world, it’s interesting. All the clubs dream of that. It puts the Bikini and Toulouse on the map electronic music, it’s great.” For those who were unable to purchase an entry, there are still resale sites.
