The main venues of Nuits sonores 2018

ANCIENNES USINES FAGOR-BRANDT

65, rue Challemel-Lacour, Lyon 7e

For its 16^th edition, Nuits Sonores’ principal night-time location will remain unchanged from last year: the disused Fagor-Brandt factory in Lyon’s seventh arrondissement. Boasting a redesigned layout, the site will feature three stages in addition to several social areas.

The Brandt Group’s R&D Centre for Cleaning is located on this site.

Main nights

LA SUCRIÈRE

49-50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e

Back in 2002, Arty Farty was the first organisation to invest in La Sucrière. It has since become one of the strongest symbols of the festival and, thanks to its riverside location, it is the ideal setting for NS Days, the daytime festival.

NS Days • Closing day

LE SUCRE

50 quai Rambaud, Lyon 2e

This magnificent rooftop venue, perched above La Sucrière, will play a key role in the NS Days program, hosting one of its stages. At night it will be the setting for special events, particularly those organised in collaboration with the festival’s partners.

NS Days and special events

The Lyon Auditorium

149 rue Garibaldi, Lyon 3e

Having become part of Nuits Sonores for the first time in 2017, this year the Lyon Auditorium – one of the city’s most iconic venues – will host a special concert by Kamasi Washington.

Concert spécial

LE TRANSBORDEUR

3 Boulevard de Stalingrad, Villeurbanne

A historic partner of Nuits Sonores, Le Transbordeur will host the new-look Sunday Park to inaugurate the 2018 festival.

Sunday Park

Centre nautique Tony Bertrand

8 Quai Claude Bernard, Lyon 7e

Despite being a significant part of the festival’s history, La Piscine du Rhône has not hosted a Nuits Sonores event for over seven years. That will all change in 2018, when this mythical site will be the location for a Carte Blanche programme dedicated to the city of Amsterdam.