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Daft Punk announce final comeback tour dates

Superstar electronic music duo Daft Punk have today shocked the world once again, with the news of a final tour. Earlier this year in February the pair confirmed their retirement via an 8 minute video titled “Epilogue”. The announcement left millions of fans devastated, with their 30 year tenure coming to an end.

However, a new development confirms that the influential duo will perform one final set of shows. Exact dates and locations are still TBC, all we know for now is that they will take place in early 2022 with performances in London , Tokyo , New York and Berlin . The Parisian duo responsible for some of the most popular dance and pop songs ever made, Thomas Bangalter  and  Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo  formed Daft Punk in Paris in 1993 , helping to define the French touch style of house music.

Their debut album, 1997’s  Homework , was a dance music landmark, featuring classic singles “Around the World” and “Da Funk.” By the time their follow up album  Discovery was released in in 2001, the duo had become known for public appearances in their trademark robot outfits. The singles “One More Time” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” cemented their position as global superstars. Further releases included Human After All , live LP  Alive 2007 , and the  Tron: Legacy  soundtrack album.

Twenty years into their career, Daft Punk were in the spotlight once more with “Get Lucky,” the lead single of their 2013 album  Random Access Memories .  The globally recognised track sold millions of copies and won two Grammys. The duo will no doubt have plenty of hits to choose from during their final performances in 2022.

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“I wouldn’t count it out”, says Todd Edwards on Daft Punk reunion

He also says that “the world needs more Daft Punks” and “there’s a lot of followers, but not a lot of… innovators”

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Todd Edwards has said he “wouldn’t count out” a Daft Punk reunion.

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Music producer and UKG legend Todd Edwards, who worked with Daft Punk on 2001’s Face To Face and 2013’s Fragments Of Time , recently spoke about the possibility of a Daft Punk reunion on The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1.

When asked about the potential for the French duo to come back together, Edwards told Lowe, “I wouldn’t count it out… You don’t know what’s going to happen five years from now. They might decide we’re going to put on a tour, or maybe they get a stroke of… You don’t know, maybe the time away will bring them back together.”

However, Edwards emphasised that even if a reunion doesn’t happen, the impact of Daft Punk’s music highlights a gap in music for “more Daft Punks”: “The amount of people that yearn for Daft Punk to get back together to lead the way for music shows how much the world needs more Daft Punks out there to lead the world in music,” he said.

Edwards also highlighted the importance of taking risks in music, something he believes came naturally to Daft Punk throughout their career: “There’s a lot of followers, but not a lot of people that are willing to take risks and be innovators,” he says.

“They did everything confidently in what they did, regardless of what the public said, they just did it,” he said. “And they knew there could have been a possibility this album failed…And you know what? It didn’t fail.”

Also in the podcast, Edwards tells Lowe about working with Daft Punk on the track Fragments of Time , which was featured on their Grammy-winning 2013 album Random Access Memories . He describes the experience as “life-changing” and recalls the moment he first listened to the album in full, when he said: “This is going to be a masterpiece.”

Listen to the full podcast, The Zane Lowe Show featuring Todd Edwards, on Apple Music 1, via music.apple.com .

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Daft Punk on tour? It sounds like some kind of mystical legend, or a very distant memory to most. But to me, I can remember it like it was yesterday. I’m not usually one to write reviews, but the French electronic music duo are something that, if you get a chance, you have to experience live, I can not express the atmosphere of their performance.

The Alive show boasted an epic audio-visual pyramid from which they played their music, which was their platform for spreading the dance music of the era. From start to finish, the whole audience didn’t stop dancing, and the outdoor venue at Wireless was perfect for the spectacular lighting and sound balance. The duo in their robot suits, a characteristic of theirs, transported the crowd of thousands on a psychedelic journey into the realms of dance. It seemed like everyone in the audience knew every song, something that rarely happens at a festival. It was, hands down, the best live music I have ever experienced.

Random Access Memories stands in complete opposition to their previous albums, yet it has been my favourite album since its release last year and I am constantly scouring the internet in hope of the announcement of an album tour. I know it would be just as epic as the last.

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Most of the music I listen to bears little resemblance to Daft Punk. That said one can't help but be aware of them and familiar with many of their songs.

Seeing them live in Japan in 2007 was an experience I will never forget. Granted I was with great friends and was chemically in a very happy place, but the sound in that concert hall was unlike anything else I'd ever experienced. Every person within Makuhari Messe (a large concert venue outside Tokyo) was transported outside of themselves and lost in dance. It was as close to a religious experience as a heathen like myself can ever hope for.

Should they ever tour again I will see them again, regardless of all factors. They are not to be missed.

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Will Daft Punk ever tour again? Here's everything we know about their possible return

The return of Daft Punk is one of the most hotly anticipated events in electronic music

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Will Daft Punk ever tour again? It's the question the world has been asking since the Alive shows in 2006 and 2007. Their live performances are the stuff of legend and the robots' return to festival stages and concert halls is one of the most hotly anticipated events in all of electronic music.

Daft Punk last performed "live" with The Weeknd at the 2017 GRAMMYs . They appeared on stage with the vocalist for a rendition of 'I Feel It Coming' , one of the two tracks that the duo produced for The Weeknd's album 'Starboy'. Electronic music has a long history at the GRAMMYs but it wasn't enough to satisfy fans of Daft Punk.

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The brief sighting of the robots was less of a spectacle than their 2014 performance at the GRAMMYs , where they won Album Of The Year for 'Random Access Memories' and Record Of The Year for 'Get Lucky'. To celebrate, they performed 'Get Lucky' with a band that included Pharrell, Stevie Wonder and Nile Rodgers (the rehearsal footage can be seen here ). The band also played Chic's 'Le Freak', Wonder's 'Another Star' and parts of 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger', 'Around The World' and 'Lose Yourself To Dance'.

Daft Punk's last live performance to a paying public was when they appeared at the climax of Pheonix's 2010 headline show at Madison Square Garden in New York. The robots joined the French band to play 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger', 'Around The World', 'Together' and 'Human After All' as well as Pheonix's '1901', with both acts contributing to the performances of the songs and mash-ups of tracks in true Daft Punk live style.

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It was a poignant moment between the two bands – Daft Punk fans will of course know that Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo were in the band Darlin' with Pheonix's Laurent Brancowitz. A review of the trio's music in Melody Maker in 1993 famously referred to their "daft punky thrash" and the Daft Punk moniker was born.

Daft Punk's last headline show took place on December 22 2007 at the Showground Main Arena in Sydney. It was the last stop on the Alive 2007 tour which took in arenas and festivals across the world, starting on June 10 2007 at RockNess festival in Inverness in Scotland.

The duo also toured Alive in 2006, starting with Coachella festival in California on April 29 and ending with Bang! festival in Miami on November 11. This was something of a 'warm-up' for the 2007 shows, with 16 gigs taking place in '06 and 30 taking place in '07.

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Daft Punk had released 'Human After All' in 2005 and the setlist for the Alive shows featured music from the record, as well as from their first two albums, 'Homework' and 'Discovery', with different tracks blended together and mashed-up for maximum impact.

The Alive tours have gone down in electronic music history as some of the most seminal performances of any dance music act ever. The iconic pyramid stage production and visuals set the blueprint for every spectacular electronic music live show that would follow and the shows resulted in the 'Alive 2007' live album and DVD.

The shows are the reason why the return of Daft Punk to the live arena is so eagerly awaited and the Alive legend only grow stronger as the years go on.

This period also included Daft Punk's first televised live performance, which took place at the GRAMMYs in 2008 . The robots brought their pyramid onstage to perform 'Stronger' with Kanye West, which famously samples 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'.

Daft Punk's previous and first world tour took place in 1997, with the robots playing over 60 dates at venues and festivals between June and December. The tour included their live show as well as some DJ sets. They duo took their studio on the road with them to perform, with Thomas Bangalter saying "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."

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The Daftendirekt tour went on to be immortalised in the 'Alive 1997' live album, which was recorded at Birmingham's legendary Que club. It captures the energy of Daft Punk at the time when they released 'Homework' and were fast becoming a bona fide dance music phenomenon.

Many fans thought Daft Punk would play live around the release of fourth studio album 'Random Access Memories' in 2013, but not even the official launch party at an agricultural fair in the rural Australian town of Wee Waa could lure them out.

Rumours circulated in 2017 that Daft Punk would revive the Alive tour and continue the tradition of playing shows every 10 years, with Lollapalooza and Glastonbury cited as festivals that may have booked them.

There were also heavy rumours that the duo would replace Beyoncé when she pulled out of Coachella the same year .

The robots have been active in recent years, releasing a lot of merchandise and organising a pop-up shop in LA . The closest we've got to a live sighting of them since the GRAMMYs has been a 'Technologic' art installation in Paris in 2019 .

At this point, given the nature of their recent music, a live tour would require a large number of personnel and special guests – their medley at the 2014 GRAMMYs featured themselves as well as a band containing seven members, which included Pharrell, Nile Rodgers and Stevie Wonder.

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And now Daft Punk are enshrined as one of popular music's most famous acts, venues would need to be big enough to accommodate the ensuing crowds. Thanks to the mythology that's been built up around the duo, they're now far more famous than they were in 2007 and 1997.

Would their return be as big budget as performances of the songs from 'Random Access Memories' require? Or would they revert to the club hits of their previous three albums? Would the pyramid be restored or would they return as part of a large band? We're hoping they haven't said goodbye to performing live, let alone the electrifying blends heard on the Alive tours, just yet.

If all else fails, there's always the tribute band .

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Daft Punk reunion at Paris 2024 Olympics rumours denied by rep

The artistic director of ceremonies had hinted at a possible reunion for the games

A representative for Daft Punk has denied rumours that the duo will reunite at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the opening and closing ceremonies, had teased the potential presence of the group in a recent interview  with  France Inter . Speaking in French, he said, “It would be very happy if they were in this ceremony. We can’t not think about it.”

He added: “You can’t not think of Daft Punk when you think of a successful international showcase for a French group.”

However, a representative for the duo has now denied that Daft Punk will be reuniting at the games, telling  Pitchfork  that “this is just a rumor and not true.” 

Yesterday, Jolly posted an  update apologising for his “confusing” comments that “generated a lot of expectations.” Writing on X (formerly Twitter), he said: “I must clarify: After discussing a possible presence at the ceremony, the group's decision is not to participate. I respect this decision and apologize for the ambiguity of my comments.”

Daft Punk  announced their break-up  in February 2021. Thomas Bangalter, one half of the duo, shared new details about the split in recent BBC radio interview . This year, the duo are celebrating 10 years of their album  ‘Random Access Memories’  with exclusive interviews and a special reissue .

Recently, the duo have also announced a ‘Drumless Edition’ of the album which will be out on vinyl and all digital streaming platforms on 17th November. The LP’s first track, ‘Within’, featuring Chilly Gonzales on piano, is out now.

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Daft Punk Rep Denies Paris 2024 Olympics Reunion Rumor

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In a recent interview with France Inter , Thomas Jolly teased the potential presence of Daft Punk at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Jolly, the artistic director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, said in French, “It would be very happy if they were in this ceremony. We can’t not think about it.”

A representative for Daft Punk now tells Pitchfork that the duo will not reunite for the Olympics. “This is just a rumor and not true,” the representative said.

On X , the platform formerly known as Twitter, Jolly walked back his comments, writing, in French, “After discussing a possible presence at the ceremony, the group’s decision is not to participate.”

Daft Punk announced their breakup in February 2021. The duo has since reissued Random Access Memories for the LP’s 10th anniversary , and a drumless version of the 2013 album is forthcoming.

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