French producer Hugo Pierre Leclercq, known to fans as Madeon, brings his Victory Live Tour to San Diego's waterfront tonight, setting up at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park with guest Contact Sports. Gates open at 6:45 p.m. for a standing general admission show, meaning no chairs or blankets will be allowed on the lawn.
The concert is a rental event presented by Goldenvoice, and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra will not appear on this bill, according to The Rady Shell. That distinction matters at a venue that regularly doubles as the symphony's summer home — tonight, the stage belongs entirely to Madeon's electronic production. The show is also being tracked by KPBS as part of its San Diego events calendar.
Victory marks Madeon's first full-length album since 2019's Good Faith, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart and picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic Album, per the venue's own account of his career. His 2015 debut, Adventure, drew rave reviews when it arrived, establishing him early as one of dance music's more inventive studio voices.
A Sound Built on Punk, Sci-Fi and Heartbreak
The new album sits at the intersection of punk, indie rock, electro-clash, sci-fi and high fashion, the venue's program notes state, and it wrestles with identity and reinvention in the aftermath of heartbreak and loss. As reported by edm.com, Victory is his first full-length release since the Grammy-nominated Good Faith dropped back in 2019, and it anchors a 31-date headline tour across North America.
That tour previewed its live incarnation at a sold-out Red Rocks Amphitheatre show in October 2025, edm.com reports, before the Victory Live show made its full debut that same year. The visual team behind Madeon's earlier Good Faith Forever run is back on board for this run, the outlet notes, carrying forward a design sensibility fans have already seen tested on the road.
New Stage Elements and a Nod to Earlier Records
Victory Live features updated and brand-new stage and lighting elements, according to edmtunes.com, and fans should expect reworked versions of earlier tracks pulled from both Adventure and Good Faith woven into the new set. The outlet also notes that Madeon delivered a live stage appearance at Ultra Miami ahead of bringing the tour to North American venues, and that the tour continues through November in major cities across the continent.
San Diego's stop comes amid a run of collaborations and milestones that have defined Madeon's career well beyond any single album cycle. He has worked with Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, Muse and Deadmau5, and Lady Gaga once invited him to open a series of arena shows and record together. He's also played main stages at Coachella and Lollapalooza, and his “Pop Culture” mashup went viral, a live-mixed blend of samples from 39 different songs performed on a Novation Launchpad.
Where to Find the Show
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park sits on San Diego Bay at the edge of downtown, an open-air venue that opened in the summer of 2021 and has since become a fixture of the city's live music calendar. Depending on the event and seating configuration, the venue can accommodate between 2,000 and 10,000 people, according to fox5sandiego.com. Tonight's standing general admission setup puts the focus squarely on Madeon's reworked catalog and new stage visuals.
