Daftendirektour

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Daftendirektour
Tour by Daft Punk
Daftendirektour.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
Associated album Homework
Start date11 February 1997
End date20 December 1997
No. of shows
  • 64
  • 52 in Europe
  • 12 in North America
Daft Punk concert chronology

Daftendirektour was the first concert tour by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. The tour spanned from February to December 1997. [1]

Contents

Background

For this tour, Daft Punk used their home studio equipment for the live stage. As Thomas Bangalter of the duo stated, "Everything was synched up—the drum machines, the bass lines. The sequencer was just sending out the tempos and controlling the beats and bars. On top of this structure we built all these layers of samples and various parts that we could bring in whenever we wanted to." [2] Little video footage from the tour has been released. A clip featuring "Rollin' & Scratchin'" can be seen on D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes . [3] Elements of the track "Alive" can also be heard as it was performed at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California. [4] The band had used several machines running ARKAOS software into a custom visual setup. [5]

Daft Punk released a live album, Alive 1997 , in 2001, which featured their performance at Que Club Birmingham on 8 November 1997. The recording was selected by Daft Punk themselves for release, as they considered it to be their favorite from the Daftendirektour. In 2022, a recording of the complete Mayan Theater set from the tour was streamed to promote the rerelease of Homework and Alive 1997. [6]

Setlist

Average setlist based on known performances from 14 June 1997, 9 August 1997, 8 November 1997, and 17 December 1997. Shows were improvised and the order and number of songs varied across the tour, although the setlist below was usually played (minus the encore). [7] [8] [9] [10]

  1. "Musique"
  2. "Revolution 909"
  3. "Fresh"
  4. "Short Circuit" (early version)
  5. "Daftendirekt" / "Da Funk"
  6. "Da Funk" (Armand van Helden's Ten Minutes of Funk mix)
  7. "Rollin' & Scratchin'"
  8. Unreleased
  9. "Alive" / "Can You Feel It" (cover of CLS)
  10. "Burnin'"
  11. "French Kiss" (cover of Lil Louis)
  12. "Around the World" / "The Chase" (cover of Giorgio Moroder)
  13. "Teachers"
  14. "Rock'n Roll" / Oh Yeah / "You Can't Hide From Your Bud" (cover of DJ Sneak) (encore)

No official setlist has ever been published from this tour, and some misinformation has spread surrounding the setlist. In some publications for Alive 1997, the transition between "Short Circuit" and "Daftendirekt" is titled "WDPK (Part I)" and the unreleased song between "Rollin' & Scratchin'" and "Alive" has been titled by fans as an alternate live version of "Revolution 909," as "WDPK (Part II)," [11] or as a song titled "Pulsar." [12] At least once, "Fresh" and the album version of "Revolution 909" were performed live between "Musique" and "Short Circuit". [13]

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
North America
11 February 1997 Chicago United StatesRoller State Rink
Europe
2 March 1997 London United KingdomThe Bunker Club
12 April 1997 Manchester Manchester Academy
15 May 1997 Paris France Rex Club
14 June 1997 [lower-alpha 1] Hultsfred Sweden Lake Hulingen
22 June 1997 [lower-alpha 2] Scheeßel GermanyEichenring
27 June 1997 [lower-alpha 3] Roskilde DenmarkFestivalpladsen
2 July 1997 [lower-alpha 4] Kristiansand Norway Odderøya
4 July 1997 [lower-alpha 5] Torhout BelgiumAchiel Eeckloo Rockweide
5 July 1997 [lower-alpha 6] Werchter Werchterpark
12 July 1997 [lower-alpha 7] Balado United KingdomBalado Airfield
9 August 1997 [lower-alpha 8] Montpellier FranceEspace Grammont
16 August 1997 [lower-alpha 9] Leeds United KingdomTemple Newsam
17 August 1997 [lower-alpha 9] Chelmsford Hylands Park
North America
1 September 1997 Toronto Canada The Warehouse
3 September 1997 New York City United StatesRoseland Ballroom
4 September 1997 Chicago Metro Chicago [15] [16]
6 September 1997 Seattle Showbox Comedy and Supper Club
9 September 1997 San Francisco The Fillmore
12 September 1997 Los Angeles El Rey Theater
22 September 1997 Toronto CanadaThe Guvernement
23 September 1997New York CityUnited StatesIrving Plaza
24 September 1997 Miami Cameo Theater
27 September 1997 Los Angeles American Legion Hall
28 September 1997 Seattle DV8
Europe
2 October 1997 Amsterdam NetherlandsParadiso
3 October 1997 Lille FranceL'Aéronef
4 October 1997 Brussels BelgiumAncienne Belgique
6 October 1997 Saarbrücken Germany Garage
7 October 1997 Köln Live Music Hall
8 October 1997 Dortmund Soundgarden
9 October 1997 Hamburg Große Freiheit 36
11 October 1997 Berlin Huxley's Neue Welt
12 October 1997 Stuttgart LKA Longhorn
13 October 1997 Strasbourg FranceLa Laiterie
17 October 1997 Paris L'elysée Montmartre
18 October 1997 Nancy Zénith de Nancy
20 October 1997 Rouen Exo 7
21 October 1997 Rennes La Liberté
24 October 1997 Southampton United KingdomSouthampton Guildhall
26 October 1997 Dublin IrelandRed Box
28 October 1997 Newcastle upon Tyne United KingdomMayfair Ballroom
30 October 1997 Leeds Town and Country Club
31 October 1997 Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom
1 November 1997 Manchester Manchester Academy
3 November 1997 Cambridge Corn Exchange
5 November 1997 London Astoria Theater
6 November 1997 London Astoria Theater
8 November 1997 Birmingham Que Club
9 November 1997 Nottingham Rock City
10 November 1997 Brighton Escape Club
12 November 1997 Brest FrancePetite Salle de Penfeld
14 November 1997 Madrid SpainAqualung
15 November 1997 Barcelona Zeleste
17 November 1997 Bordeaux FranceEspace Medoquine
18 November 1997 Toulouse Salle Des Fetes
20 November 1997 Marseille Le Dome
21 November 1997 Geneva SwitzerlandPalladium
22 November 1997 Lyon FranceTransbordeur
24 November 1997 Milan Italy Rolling Stone Club
25 November 1997 Florence Tenax
26 November 1997 Rome Frontiera
29 November 1997 Zürich SwitzerlandJail
30 November 1997 Vienna AustriaLibro Music Hall
1 December 1997 Munich GermanyKunstpark Ost, KW – das Heizkraftwerk
3 December 1997 Hanover Capitol
4 December 1997 Mannheim MS Connexion
North America
17 December 1997 Los Angeles United States Mayan Theater
Europe
20 December 1997 Berlin GermanyEinlass
  1. ↑ The performance in Hultsfred on 14 June 1997, was part of the Hultsfred Festival.
  2. ↑ The performance in Scheeßel on 22 June 1997, was part of the Hurricane Festival.
  3. ↑ The performance in Scheeßel on 27 June 1997, was part of the Roskilde Festival.
  4. ↑ The performance in Kristiansand on 2 July 1997, was part of the Quart Festival.
  5. ↑ The performance in Torhout on 4 July 1997, was part of the Rock Torhout festival.
  6. ↑ The performance in Werchter on 5 July 1997, was part of the Rock Werchter festival.
  7. ↑ The performance in Balado on 12 July 1997, was part of the T In the Park Festival. [14]
  8. ↑ The performance in Montpellier on 9 August 1997 was part of the Boréalis festival.
  9. 1 2 The performances in Leeds on 16 August 1997, and in Chelmsford on 17 August 1997, were part of the V97 Festival.

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References

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  2. ↑ Chris Gill, "ROBOPOP" Archived 3 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine (May 2001) Remix Magazine Online. Retrieved 6 March 2007.
  3. ↑ D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes . Virgin Records. 1999.
  4. ↑ Rollin' & Scratchin' (live in L.A.) Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine on extrememusic.com. (3 May 2014) Retrieved on 7 May 2015.
  5. ↑ DAFT PUNK Tour 1998 , retrieved 24 November 2023 Suspected to be reuploaded from a Daft Punk fan site from around the early 2000s.
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  14. ↑ Daft Punk in Glasgow: Slam on 'the two quiet wee guys' who used to crash on their sofa, Jules Boyle, Glasgow Live, 24 February 2021
  15. ↑ "Metro Chicago on Instagram: "Thank you Daft Punk 🤖 Credit to @djheather"".
  16. ↑ "MB🌊 on Instagram: "@daftpunk calling it quits after 28 years?! Genuine sadness 😔 They will forever be musical legends IMO, "Homework" will always be in my top 10 and this concert @metrochicago will always be their best ever! 👏🏽 (Suck it @coachella ) if you were there, you know!! 🙌🏽 Hopefully you'll come back one day Harder, Faster, Stronger! 🎶 #thankyoudaftpunk #daftpunk"".
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