Daftendirektour was the first concert tour by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk. The tour spanned from February to December 1997.Daftendirektour 1997 . thedaftclub.com. Retrieved on 3 May 2015.
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."Chris Gill, "ROBOPOP" (May 2001) Remix Magazine Online. Retrieved 6 March 2007. 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.D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes. Virgin Records. 1999. Elements of the track "Alive" can also be heard as it was performed at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, California.Rollin' & Scratchin' (live in L.A.) on extrememusic.com. (3 May 2014) Retrieved on 7 May 2015. The band had used several machines running ArKaos software into a custom visual setup.Suspected to be reuploaded from a Daft Punk fan site from around the early 2000s.
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.
Set list Average set list 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). "Musique" "Revolution 909" "Fresh" "Short Circuit" (early version) "Daftendirekt" / "Da Funk" "Da Funk" (Armand van Helden's Ten Minutes of Funk mix) "Rollin' & Scratchin'" Unreleased "Alive" / "Can You Feel It" (cover of CLS) "Burnin'" "French Kiss" (cover of Lil Louis) "Around the World" / "The Chase" (cover of Giorgio Moroder) "Teachers" "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 DateCityCountryVenueNorth America11 February 1997ChicagoUnited StatesRoller State RinkEurope2 March 1997LondonUnited KingdomThe Bunker Club12 April 1997ManchesterManchester Academy15 May 1997ParisFranceRex Club7 June 1997RiminiItalyRimini Dance Festival12 June 1997BarcelonaSpainSónar Festival14 June 1997HultsfredSwedenLake Hulingen21 June 1997UtrechtNetherlandsNew Frontier Festival22 June 1997ScheeßelGermanyEichenring27 June 1997RoskildeDenmarkFestivalpladsen29 June 1997PiltonUnited KingdomGlastonbury Festival2 July 1997KristiansandNorwayOdderøya4 July 1997TorhoutBelgiumAchiel Eeckloo Rockweide5 July 1997WerchterWerchterparkMiddle East7 July 1997EshkolIsraelEshkol National ParkEurope12 July 1997BaladoUnited KingdomBalado Airfield9 August 1997MontpellierFranceEspace Grammont16 August 1997 LeedsUnited KingdomTemple Newsam17 August 1997ChelmsfordHylands ParkNorth America1 September 1997TorontoCanadaThe Warehouse3 September 1997New York CityUnited StatesRoseland Ballroom4 September 1997ChicagoMetro Chicago6 September 1997SeattleShowbox Comedy and Supper Club9 September 1997San FranciscoThe Fillmore12 September 1997Los AngelesEl Rey Theater22 September 1997TorontoCanadaThe Guvernement23 September 1997New York CityUnited StatesIrving Plaza24 September 1997MiamiCameo Theater25 September 1997San FranciscoThe Fillmore27 September 1997Los AngelesAmerican Legion Hall28 September 1997SeattleDV8Europe2 October 1997AmsterdamNetherlandsParadiso3 October 1997 LilleFranceL'Aéronef4 October 1997 BrusselsBelgiumAncienne Belgique6 October 1997SaarbrückenGermanyGarage7 October 1997KölnLive Music Hall8 October 1997DortmundSoundgarden9 October 1997HamburgGroße Freiheit 3611 October 1997BerlinHuxley's Neue Welt12 October 1997StuttgartLKA Longhorn13 October 1997StrasbourgFranceLa Laiterie17 October 1997ParisL'elysée Montmartre18 October 1997ParisFranceZénith de Paris20 October 1997RouenFranceExo 721 October 1997RennesLa Liberté24 October 1997SouthamptonUnited KingdomSouthampton Guildhall26 October 1997DublinIrelandRed Box28 October 1997Newcastle upon TyneUnited KingdomMayfair Ballroom30 October 1997LeedsTown and Country Club31 October 1997GlasgowBarrowland Ballroom1 November 1997ManchesterManchester Academy3 November 1997CambridgeCorn Exchange5 November 1997LondonAstoria Theater6 November 1997LondonAstoria Theater8 November 1997BirminghamQue Club9 November 1997NottinghamRock City10 November 1997BrightonEscape Club 12 November 1997BrestFrancePetite Salle de Penfeld14 November 1997MadridSpainAqualung15 November 1997BarcelonaZeleste17 November 1997BordeauxFranceEspace Medoquine18 November 1997ToulouseSalle Des Fetes20 November 1997MarseilleLe Dome21 November 1997GenevaSwitzerlandPalladium22 November 1997LyonFranceTransbordeur24 November 1997MilanItalyRolling Stone Club25 November 1997FlorenceTenax26 November 1997RomeFrontiera27 November 1997ParisFranceZénith de Paris29 November 1997ZürichSwitzerlandJail30 November 1997ViennaAustriaLibro Music Hall1 December 1997MunichGermanyKunstpark Ost, KW – das Heizkraftwerk3 December 1997HanoverCapitol4 December 1997MannheimMS Connexion8 December 1997ParisFranceÉlysée MontmartreNorth America17 December 1997Los AngelesUnited StatesMayan Theater20 December 1997New York CityHammerstein BallroomEurope20 December 1997Berlin Germany Einlass
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