Opened in 1965, the “bus” was created with the ambition to make it a place accessible to young people, to dance on live music, resolutely rock. It must be replaced by a hotel.
Le Monde with AFP
The Palladium bus, mythical club and Parisian concert hall dedicated to rock, will close its doors in March to be replaced by a hotel, announced its team, Friday, February 18, on social networks. “The Palladium bus will definitely close its doors in mid-March 2022,” says its artistic director, Cyril Bodin, on the Facebook page of the club
“The building will be shaved to make room for a hotel, but it is not impossible for the club to be reconstructed to the identical (…) but it will have to have two years of minimum work”, precise-t -he. By its closure, this high place of the night and rock, in the district of Pigalle, which belongs to the Moma group (event, catering) will remain “open to programming also on weekdays”.
Tribute of Gainsbourg
Opened in 1965, the “bus” was created by a tandem, James Thibaut and James Arch, with the ambition to make it a place accessible to young people without dress code, to dance on live music, resolutely rock. They will put in place a bus system, at low prices, to fill up with pairs in Paris.
At his debut, the “bus” welcomed the painter Dali and friends who organized a banquet with a flat water, a sequence entered into the legend. Just like the song of Gainsbourg which is “in” which is “out”, where he declaims “it is at the Palladium bus, that it listened … rue Fontaine … there is the crowd, for the little guys of Liverpool “.
The room has also seen the artists like Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell. The leader of the Stones, Mick Jagger, fetched a birthday. In the early 1980s, the club awarded prices for the best French rockers, the golden buses. Among her laureates, Alain Bashung, Etienne Daho, black desire, Indochina … The club was also in the spotlight in a film bearing its name, Christopher Thomson, released in 2010.