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Daftendirektour

Tour by Daft Punk
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Europe North America
Associated album	Homework
Start date	11 February 1997
End date	20 December 1997
No. of shows	64 52 in Europe 12 in North America
Daft Punk concert chronology
Daftendirektour (1997) Alive 2006/2007 (2006–2007)

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

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." 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. Elements of the track "Alive" can also be heard as it was performed at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California. The band had used several machines running ARKAOS software into a custom visual setup.

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.

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).

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. "WDPK"
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)," or as a song titled "Pulsar." At least once, "Fresh" and the album version of "Revolution 909" were performed live between "Musique" and "Short Circuit".

Tour dates

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.
8. The performance in Montpellier on 9 August 1997 was part of the Boréalis festival.
9. ^ The performances in Leeds on 16 August 1997, and in Chelmsford on 17 August 1997, were part of the V97 Festival.

References

1. Daftendirektour 1997 Archived 29 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine. thedaftclub.com. Retrieved on 3 May 2015.
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.
6. Blistein, Jon (22 February 2022). "Daft Punk to host one-time-only stream of 1997 helmetless show". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
7. "Live @ Borealis Festival". Daft Punk: Bonus Features. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
8. "Live @ Hultsfred Festival". Daft Punk: Bonus Features. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
9. "Live @ Rex Club". Daft Punk: Bonus Features. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
10. "Live @ Que Club". Daft Punk: Bonus Features. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
11. Reid, Fiona. "Alive 1997". Hotpress. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
12. Daft Punk - Pulsar Live @Borealis Festival. Retrieved 25 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
13. "Daft Punk - Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles (17.12.1997)". Internet Archive. 17 December 1997. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
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"".

• 1997 concert tours
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