Fakear plays the Olympia in Paris on October 9, bringing his eighth album, A Nice Place to Be, to the very stage where his career took off. It’s a full-circle moment: his first Olympia show, back on October 8, 2015, was the one that turned a young producer from Caen into a name people actually knew.
A decade on, Théo Le Vigoureux (his real name) is a very different artist. A Nice Place to Be, out since September 4 via Nowadays Records, moves away from the “chill electronic” label that followed him for years and leans into something rawer and more personal, drawing on the kind of emotional, club-adjacent sound associated with Fred Again, Four Tet or Bonobo, while staying distinctly his own.
THIRTEEN TRACKS, TEN YEARS OF DISTANCE
A Nice Place to Be is Fakear’s first album built explicitly around people and emotion rather than mood and landscape. Thirteen tracks move between nostalgia and hope, love and anger, solitude and collective release, an arc that starts with the opener “Blue (I’m Happy Now)” and peaks on “Waking Up Is Better With You,” a standout built on a mechanical rhythm and an unusually direct, optimistic melody.
It’s also a personal record. Fakear has described writing it while looking back at the teenage skater and metal fan he used to be, someone who struggled to find his place, set against the more settled artist he’s become. The album arrived after “Open World,” a free-roaming, 11-track mixtape released in December 2025 that grew out of an unusual writing process, sessions in a bike bar, an apartment, even a Biocoop (french organic store), anywhere but a conventional studio.
THE OLYMPIA, TAKE TWO
The October 9 date isn’t just another tour stop. Fakear’s first Olympia, in 2015, sold out on the strength of “Morning in Japan,” the EP that launched him, and came loaded with live musicians and guest artists, a genuine coronation. This time, the show is built around the new material and a reworked live set described as rawer and more club-focused, rooted in the current renewal of bass music, with a staging that’s evolved alongside his sound.
The Paris date sits inside a longer French tour that kicked off in Biarritz on September 24 and runs through November, taking in Limoges, Grenoble, Rennes, Villeurbanne, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille. For a lot of fans who’ve followed Fakear since “La Lune Rousse,” the Olympia return is the one circled in red.
A few tickets for the Olympia date are still available. Grab yours here before it sells out for good.
KEY FACTS
- Album: A Nice Place to Be (Fakear’s 8th studio album), 13 tracks, out September 4, 2026, on Nowadays Records
- Standout track: “Waking Up Is Better With You”
- Previous release: “Open World” mixtape, 11 tracks, December 2025
- Concert: Fakear at the Olympia, Paris, October 9, 2026, eleven years after his first Olympia show (October 8, 2015)
- Tour: French dates from September 24 (Biarritz) through November, including Limoges, Grenoble, Rennes, Villeurbanne, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lille
