Music Feature
The basement where the city’s next sound is being taped
Every Thursday, forty people squeeze into a cellar to watch a band record straight to cassette. We spent a night with Les Cassettes Bleues.
Thursday, 22 October 2026 No. 214 Free every Thursday
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This week
Cinema Report
Small screens, full rooms: the neighbourhood cinema is winning
While multiplexes cut screenings, single-screen cinemas with eighty seats are selling out on weeknights.
City Report
Riding the night buses with the people who keep the city awake
Cleaners, bakers, nurses, DJs: a night on the N41, from midnight to the first light.
Music List
Five records we couldn’t stop playing this week
Basement tape-pop, night-bus synths and a brass band in no hurry: the week in records.
Feature
Why the saxophone is suddenly back in the clubs
Once the punchline of every eighties soundtrack, the sax is now the most-booked instrument on the late-night circuit.
Feature
Seat 23: one film, seven nights in a row
Our critic watched the same film every night for a week, from the same seat. Here is what changed (mostly the critic).
Opinion
Museums after dark: worth the queue?
Late openings promise empty galleries and a drink in the sculpture hall. The reality is busier.
Review 4 out of 5
One actor, no set, ninety minutes
Report
Skaters won the plaza. Now what?
After years of fences and fines, the city let skaters keep the square outside the old library. The arrangement is working, mostly.
The week’s records
Read the reviews-
Les Cassettes Bleues
Sous-sol
5 out of 5
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Halcyon District
Night Bus 41
4 out of 5
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Mira Sol
Paper Moon Radio
4 out of 5
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Static Orchard
Pollen Static
3 out of 5
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The Lamplighters
Slow Lanterns
4 out of 5
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Today’s schedule →- 06:00Wake-Up Call
- 09:00Crate Digging
- 17:00Rush Hour
- 21:00Club onde
Out this week
Full agenda23 Oct
Concert20:30
Les Cassettes Bleues: tape release night
The Cellar, Rue Basse
€12
23 Oct
Cinema23:45
Midnight on 35mm
The Lumen
€8
24 Oct
Exhibition15:00
Walking tour: the new walls
Meets behind the bus depot
Free
24 Oct
Club23:00
Club onde: live from the booth
Warehouse 9
€10