What are we doing on the last two nights of the Olympics?

It’s the last weekend of the Olympics and Paris is waiting for the closing ceremony. Olympic music director Victor Le Masson confirmed to those who didn’t want to believe that Daft Punk would not be there. A friend suggests to us that they are probably on vacation, each to their own. Do Divorced Robots Dream of Electronic Beaches? We, at this stage, yes. The presence of Air and Phoenix seems uncertain, just like the day before the opening ceremony, when these two bands played at Terminal 1 in Roissy. We were there, we waited too long in the sandwich line, but we were amazed by its beauty Playground Love from the air, sings Phoenix singer Thomas Mars. It was the best moment of the 1990s, but in 2024. Thanks to the Olympics. We have gone back a long time, dreaming about the future. Noah Liles, Kim Yeezy, Coco Yoshizawa, Raisa Leal… No more jokes.

For the closing ceremony, we admit we forgot to get tickets (but was that really possible?), so we thought of some weekend alternatives instead. First, if you have 5 euros to spend, don’t hesitate to try your luck at La Villette for concerts organized by Fnac; the last one is saturday night and it seems like every night we go there, wildly letting go of anything. and everything from dance, regardless of artists. Paris, during this summer of the Olympic Games, appeared as a city that has nothing of museum, but everything of palimpsest; history is constantly being written there, in layers and layers. The party too.

The Olympics also revealed the existence of spaces, sometimes on the outskirts of Paris, where it was possible to hold evenings, dances, parties, in exotic contexts, outside of traditional norms. This coming weekend, at the end of the Olympics, we will be able to move from one to the other. on Saturday evening we can return to the Fan Zoo at Gare des Mines station or board the Barboteur, the boat that glides along. canal, not far from Port de la Villette. We can also spend time at Boom Boom Villette for the Breakdance x Fusion Concept event, which offers fusion Break competitions from Saturday to Sunday until 2am, in anticipation of a similar finale, the Fusion Concept Festival on Sunday 1^eh September at Zenit Paris. A way to extend the excitement of the Olympics and their fan zones since the beginning of the school year.

As we conclude these wanderings on the nights of the Olympic Games, it is impossible not to think of the last pages of Allen Pakadis’s book: A handsome young man. “Early morning makeup is done, clothes are crumpled like peacock feathers, rollers are waiting at the exit of the nightclub” and finally, “this is how this week of collections is”. is over. noise and fury, good luxury and fine taste, transfers and billionaires, champagne and little foursomes. Paris will always be Paris.” It was in 1978. In just a few words, Paris is still Paris in 2024.