Concert Tracker App for France — Bataclan to Clisson
By Alexandra P. · Published 2026-09-03 · 5 min read
Founder of Gigvault — the concert tracker for live music fans.
France has the deepest upcoming calendar of any country in Gigvault outside the UK and Germany: of 528 French shows, 219 are still in the future — more than two in five.
That is a country in the middle of a touring cycle, and it is exactly the moment where a record either gets kept or gets lost.
Paris, and then everywhere else
| City | Shows |
|---|---|
| Paris | 203 |
| Lyon | 37 |
| Toulouse | 23 |
| Clisson | 17 |
| Lille | 14 |
| Nantes | 10 |
| Bordeaux | 9 |
| Marseille | 9 |
Clisson at number four is not a city of 7,000 people punching above its weight by accident — that is Hellfest, and it shows what a festival does to a concert history. One weekend puts a small town ahead of Bordeaux and Marseille.
The rooms behind those numbers: Accor Arena, the Zénith halls, La Maroquinerie, Bataclan, and the Plénitude Arena.
The Zénith problem
"Zénith" is not a venue. It is about a dozen of them — Paris, Lille, Nantes, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Dijon, Rouen and more, all called Zénith, all built to the same idea.
On a ticket stub from 2015 it says Zénith. Which one is a question your memory will answer wrongly at least once.
Two habits fix it, and both take seconds:
Photograph the ticket. A French ticket carries the full venue and city, and Gigvault reads them off the image. This is the whole job for a night you would otherwise reconstruct from a blurry photo and a guess.
Search by city. Paris and the other city pages disambiguate what the venue name cannot.
Festivals are not one line
Hellfest, Rock en Seine, Les Vieilles Charrues, We Love Green — a French festival weekend is fifteen or twenty acts, and putting Hellfest 2024 in your history as a single entry throws away everything except the name of the festival.
Every act is its own show. That is what makes the small stages survive: the band you watched at two in the afternoon under a tarpaulin ends up in your history next to the headliner, and in five years you are the person who saw them first.
In French
- Suivi de concerts — what the app does
- Journal de concerts — the diary
- Recherche de setlist — find what was played
- Suivi de festivals — festivals, act by act
Frequently asked questions
Is the app in French?
Yes, and there are French pages for concert tracking, the diary, setlists and festivals.How far back does the French data go?
The oldest French show currently in Gigvault is from February 1987. You can add older ones.I have a ticket that just says Zénith.
Add the city with it. City plus date identifies the hall, and the entry stays right even if the venue is renamed later.Does it handle festivals properly?
Each act you saw becomes its own entry with its own date and stage, rather than one line for the whole weekend.👉 Start your French concert history — free, and it takes one photo to begin.
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About the author
Alexandra P. built Gigvault solo after years of going to concerts and never finding an app that actually captured what happens at shows. No investors, no ads, no data sold. Read the founder story →