Read this next: How 'Homework' changed dance music foreverĪnd 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. The closest we've got to a live sighting of them since the GRAMMYs has been a 'Technologic' art installation in Paris in 2019.Īt 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. The robots have been active in recent years, releasing a lot of merchandise and organising a pop-up shop in LA. There were also heavy rumours that the duo would replace Beyoncé when she pulled out of Coachella the same year. 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. 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.
The robots brought their pyramid onstage to perform 'Stronger' with Kanye West, which famously samples 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'. This period also included Daft Punk's first televised live performance, which took place at the GRAMMYs in 2008. 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. 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 Alive tours have gone down in electronic music history as some of the most seminal performances of any dance music act ever. Read this next: Taft Plunk is the duo impersonating Daft Punkĭaft 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. This was something of a 'warm-up' for the 2007 shows, with 16 gigs taking place in '06 and 30 taking place in '07. 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. It was the last stop on the Alive 2007 tour which took in arenas and festivals across the world, starting on Jat RockNess festival in Inverness in Scotland. 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'.ĭaft Punk's last headline show took place on Decemat the Showground Main Arena in Sydney. 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 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'. Read this next: The best Daft Punk live footage Electronic music has a long history at the GRAMMYs but it wasn't enough to satisfy fans of Daft Punk. 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'. 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.ĭaft Punk last performed "live" with The Weeknd at the 2017 GRAMMYs. Will Daft Punk ever tour again? It's the question the world has been asking since the Alive shows in 20.