Often if you’re on a French holiday then the only music you’ll hear is what you brought with you. However, France has plenty of music venues and the Dordogne is no exception. If you’d like to hear some of what French popular music has to offer in person then you may be interested in the latest local websites to be featured on news site Sudouest.com.

The news site’s journalists recommend that anyone looking for gigs and music venues in the Dordogne check out the websites Sans-reserve.org and Rocksane.com. Both sites are named after their venues, and are described by Sudouest as “well documented, easy to navigate, [and] they make you want to come back and enquire”.

Sans Reserve, or ‘without reserve’, is the website of a popular music venue in Perigeux. Without Reserve has been refurbished twice in the last ten years, once in 2005 and again in 2008, and was formerly known as The Tank. Benoit Faure, the designer of the new layout, said that he was inspired by national-level venues to have a clear and dynamic design for the music rooms in Pereiguex. It features concerts every month, with the next being a performance from rock hand The Hellbats on January 23rd.

Rocksane can be found in Bergerac, and as well as concerts, the venue acts as a school for aspiring rock musicians. Rocksane is decorated with historic programmes, flyers, posters and merchandise from France’s history of rock music, as well as of the venue itself. The venue also features stand-up performances and the first acts of 2010 will be Les Comedians De Naillac. The first performance from a band will be The Control Band, a big beat/rock band that has just toured in Paris, on the 13th of February.

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