The Backstage can be booked for company evenings, client receptions, product launches, showcases and private concerts, with seating for 130 guests in a single air-conditioned room of about 300 square meters. It is a café-concert on avenue Léon Gambetta in Montrouge, just south of Paris and five minutes from Porte d'Orléans.
Seminars and company events
From Thursday to Saturday the room runs its own program of live bands. From Sunday to Wednesday it is offered for private hire, as a turnkey package. That rhythm suits a company that wants an evening with a stage at its center: a sales kickoff that ends with a concert, a team party, a client night, an artist showcase or a launch where a product is presented on stage before drinks.
The package includes bar and floor staff and a technical team. The venue can also book a band or an artist as part of the event, and it can stream the evening live on the social network the client chooses. This makes it a fit for a launch that needs to reach people who are not in the room.
The Backstage is not a meeting center. It has no breakout rooms and no daylight conference space, so it suits the evening part of a program rather than a full working day.
Rooms and capacities
There is one main room. It holds 130 seated guests and includes a VIP area furnished with Chesterfield sofas. The stage is equipped for sound, lighting, video and backline. The venue says its sound system and acoustics were designed along the lines of a recording studio control room.
Equipment named by the venue includes a Soundcraft mixing console, JBL front-of-house speakers and monitors, a lighting rig, an LED wall behind the stage, an Asba drum kit, Marshall amplifiers, Zildjian cymbals, a Nord keyboard and Focal studio monitors. A showroom displays 18 Gibson guitars signed by French and international artists, which gives guests something to look at between sets.
Catering
On public nights the bar serves wine and plates to share: tapas, boards of cold cuts and cheese, and desserts. For private hire, the bar and floor staff come with the package. The exact food and drink offer for an event is set with the venue when the date is booked.
History and setting
The Backstage presents itself as a place to sit at a table with a glass of wine and listen to a band, rather than a concert hall. The room is laid out with tables, so guests can eat and talk while musicians play. The music focus shows in the details, from the studio-grade sound to the signed guitars on the wall.
The venue closes for a summer break from late July to early September, so a private event in that window is not possible.
Getting there
The address is 2 avenue Léon Gambetta in Montrouge. Metro line 4 stops at Porte d'Orléans and at Mairie de Montrouge, both within a short walk. Buses 187, 188 and 197 stop at Léon Gambetta, and night buses N14 and N21 serve the area for late finishes. The RER B station Laplace is also close. For cars, the Jules Ferry car park is two minutes away, next to the post office, and the La Vache Noire car park is about ten minutes away.
