PARIS POPFEST #8

Paris Popfest is back at Le Hasard Ludique for its eighth edition: three evenings, eleven concerts, a DJ set, a giant karaoke, and acoustic performances, in an atmosphere of sharing and gathering, featuring musicians and audience members from the other side of the world as well as around the corner. We will be celebrating the different colors of the Pop Internationale, with both cult (re)formed bands and new favorites. We can't wait to see you again!

🐧 Thursday, September 24 🐧

🎤 Lande Hekt (Scarborough) Since 2021, Lande Hekt has quietly established herself as one of the most striking lyricists – and voices – in the British underground. After two albums exploring queer identity, sobriety, and trauma, she returns with Lucky Now (Tapete Records), a more assertive and peaceful work. Driven by indie and jangle-pop influences, the album blends luminous melodies with introspection. She will be opening the festival.

🎤 Freshberry (Paris) Freshberry was born in Paris in 2020 from the meeting of Jiyeonne and Pierre. The duo crafts minimal pop at the crossroads of krautrock and dreampop – "kraut-gaze pop" – rarely heard elsewhere. Long discreet, Freshberry has grown to love the stage with Diamond Files, their debut album released in the fall of 2025 on Indie Or Die, Hidden Bay Records, and Si Moiré Disques.

🎤 Tchotchke (New York) Anastasia, Eva, and Emily have already played in Paris, opening for The Lemon Twigs. Here they are at last headlining. Behind a retro aesthetic, their pop nicely blends jangle and glam, with special care given to vocal harmonies. They have released two albums since 2022, both on their own label, Tchotchke Records, and both produced by the Twigs.

🐧 Friday, September 25 🐧

🎤 Language of Flowers (Belfast) The indie pop of Language of Flowers, a quintet from Belfast, simultaneously evokes early Primal Scream, The Smiths, The Field Mice, Heavenly, Lush, and the guitar work of The Byrds. Songs About You, the band's only album to date, was released in 2004 on Shelflife Records. Their second record, currently being recorded, promises to be more dream pop.

🎤 Laundromat Chicks (Vienna) "The kind of band that reminds you of all your favorite bands at once"*! Since their explosive arrival on the Vienna scene in 2022, Laundromat Chicks have released three perfect albums (all on Siluh Records), hovering between youthful power pop and polished jangle pop, humor, confidence, and vulnerability. *They say it themselves!

🎤 Brezel Göring & Psychoanalyse (Berlin) Brezel Göring, half of the late Stereo Total, is the inventor of "chanson kaputt", a mix of disco, hip-hop, Japanese blues, classical music, and French chanson. His tracks, sung in both German and French, talk about the solar system, Chernobyl, life after death, or romantic delusions. This concert will be the first Brezel gives in France under the name Psychoanalyse, which he has used since 2022.

🎤 Dorian Pimpernel (Paris) Dorian Pimpernel composes erudite and singular pop, nourished by the Beach Boys, krautrock, and the Canterbury scene. On Flowers Too, a new album released on Born Bad Records in the spring, twelve years after Allombon, the Parisian quintet refines its "moonshine pop" – the nocturnal and dreamlike counterpart to sunshine pop – which they began sketching out as early as their mid-2000s Demo Tapes.

🎤 Jan Dark Piano Karaoke Sung by you, accompanied by him on the piano: a tried-and-tested formula, cherished by regulars of the late Le Motel bar, where Jan Dark played from 2015 to 2025. For this second appearance at Paris Popfest, Jan plans to enrich his already vast repertory (over 500 songs) with new indiepop hits. In real life, Jan plays his own music – on the EP "Healer" and several singles, including "Chronic" – and collaborates with various artists, from Le Klub des Loosers to Nicoletta, via Olivier Rocabois, Boris Maurussane, TIN, Tahiti 80, David Sztanke, Frédéric Lo, and Michel Houel.