La Machine du Moulin Rouge hosts seminars, conferences, company parties, dinners, cocktails, filming and photo shoots, for up to 800 guests at a cocktail and 140 in plenary format. The venue stands at 90 boulevard de Clichy, in the Pigalle district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Private hire is reserved for companies: the venue does not take birthdays or weddings.
Seminars and company events
The venue has three spaces, each with its own sound and light system, which can be booked alone or combined. The events team helps shape the program. A typical format uses Le Central for the plenary, with its stage and large screen, then La Chaufferie or the Bar à Bulles for the cocktail or the party.
The technical kit is listed room by room. Le Central has a 20,000-lumen video projector, an integrated 5.70 by 3.50 m screen, fiber internet, LED projectors and a smoke machine. La Chaufferie has a video projector, an integrated screen, fiber internet, LED projectors and a smoke machine. The Bar à Bulles has a video projector, an integrated screen and an internet connection.
Each space has a built-in cloakroom, and Le Central and La Chaufferie have equipped dressing rooms for speakers or performers.
Rooms and capacities
Le Central: entrance hall of 80 m², stage of 42 m², mezzanine of 47 m², two bars. Plenary 140, cocktail 800.
La Chaufferie: a basement space of 300 m² in total with an 80 m² entrance hall, a removable stage and a bar. Seated 100, cocktail 250, club night 300.
Le Bar à Bulles: 135 m² indoors plus an 80 m² outdoor terrace on the rooftops of the Cité Véron, with a mini stage, sound system and a bar. Seated or plenary 70, cocktail 150.
A floor plan is available from the venue, and the spaces can be joined for a larger event. Each room keeps its own bar and cloakroom, so guests can move between them without queues building up at a single point.
Catering
The Bar à Bulles has a bar and a caterer's kitchen, and Le Central and La Chaufferie have their own bars. The venue does not name a caterer on its hire page; ask the team which caterers work on site.
History and setting
La Machine sits right next to the Moulin Rouge, on the boulevard that links Pigalle and Blanche, an area known for its music halls, clubs and theaters. The venue runs a concert and club program alongside its private hire business, so its rooms are built for live sound, lighting and large crowds. The Bar à Bulles terrace looks over the roofs of the Cité Véron, a small private lane behind the boulevard.
The combination of a large hall, an underground club and a rooftop bar makes it possible to run a full day and night program on one site, from a morning conference to a late party.
Getting there
The venue is on boulevard de Clichy, between the Blanche and Pigalle metro stations on line 2, with line 12 also stopping at Pigalle. Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare du Nord are a short metro ride away.
