Daft Punk

anyone else going?
i drove to melburn in 97 for apollo festival to catch them last time.. looking fwd to seeing them again dec 22nd

Mate I would fucking love to check this show out but heading to Streaky Bay over Christmas/New Years for 7 nights. Still paying for my holiday so no way could I get there.

Have a blast it will be awesome.

It would be amazing to see these guys at a Big Day Out but it will probably never happen.

melbourne 13th dec me and sammie

that reminds me.... LIAM!!!?

liams on the 14th!

yep, 14th for me.

we were thinking about getting tickets for both nights though, just for something to do

I wish I could say i was one of the lucky ones but unfortunately not. It will be an awesome show. just bad timing for me!

Dude, it's Melbourne, trust me, there's something for you to do on Thursday night...

A snagged myself a ticket to Friday night.

That was one of the most average shows I've been to.

I was lucky enough to score myself a free ticket, but if I had paid I would be so much more pissed off right now.

Don't get me wrong - Daft Punk were decent enough, but the warm up stuff was just a bunch of Daft Punk wannabes... It'd be like putting Wolfmother on before Led Zeppelin...

Daft Punk is two dudes pressing buttons in robot masks. It would be cool if you could actually see anything!

For fucks sake - PUT SOME SCREENS UP!!

It's the third time I've been to that venue and third time I said there should be screens - it just shows me that Melbourne promoters have no fucking clue on how to put on a party at that venue.

They can do it for Carols By Candlelight, so why not at a rave where the CENTRAL FOCUS is practically invisible for 85% of the crowd??

And I don't know, maybe I've been to too many shows, but that just wasn't as impressive as the other "big" dance acts I've seen like Massive Attack or Depeche Mode or even first time I saw Chemical Brothers.

Hell Yeah! I think nearly any big show needs screens up! considering people have come to see the DJ perform and half the time end up seeing fuck all.

Well I went and it was a close second to Underworld live @ Creamfields in Buenos Aires with over 80,000 people.

Daft Punk live was fucking AWESOME and just about everyone who rammed the hill was gobsmacked and going boonta.

The entire place was going absolutely APESHIT for Daft Punk, and I am so glad I got to witness them live after having loved them for over twelve years.

Not only that but everywhere you went in town for the next two days, people were crapping on about how wicked it was, running up to you in the street, jumping up and down saying how they want to go and do it again!

Yes the acts beforehand were crap, but who cares - it was only ever supposed to be ALL about Daft Punk.



If you didn't have fun and enjoy that, then you might as well stop going out, stay at home and read books or knit or complain about inappropriate content on television or some shit.

Or maybe just consume more drugs...

(aimed at leezee... private joke)

leezee. taking drugs. what?

he's changed.

 

 

Really wish I went to this.

Julian this might give you an idea of what was going on:

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  im keen to hear his report.  2:1 odds he "lost time" at the show, any takers?

See... now THAT'S what I would have liked to have seen!

I'm not saying it was crap, I'm not saying it was dull, I'm saying it could have been better just by simply having cameras showing them pressing those buttons.


Found out the gig was put on by Michael Coppel... no wonder it was so average...

 

hahah.  msg from liam:

day2, status. trashed but healthy, mood jovial, daft punk awesome, find me where meat katie are playing tonight!!!!!!!!

That's what's wrong with the world.

People think Average = Bad.

Average = Average.

Not good. Not bad. Average.

haha, 


Nah caught the whole show, although I must admit I feel as though I was only in Melbourne for one night when I was actually there for three...

I thought it was fucking great - I would have loved to see what was going on in the pyramid too though, especially after seeing the setup posted below! The light show was phenomenal - crazy shit - I can't believe it was Daft who were doing it all!

I disagree with J about the rest of the acts - Cut Copy are sick and the Presets rock - although the other dj's were really average (doesn't help that they weren't even on stage, may as well have put on a mix cd).



The rest of the Melbourne trip was cool, went to a little place called the Red Hummingbird on Thurs for free booze, it's run by a mate from Adelaide, also caught up with my good friend Charlie there too (we saw quite a bit of him over the weekend). Funniest thing was my mate catching a cab at 7am on Friday morning whilst absolutely MESSED and not getting home for 4 hours, having no memory of what happened except for a massive cut on his face  . We reckon he went to hookers: "Hi, how much for one punch in the head please..." 

Got very messy after Daft on Friday, went to some dodgy clubs then saw some quality strippers. I'm sure lots of interesting things happened. I can't remember them though.

On Saturday we cruised down to St Kilda in the afternoon. We started drinking Jugs at the Espy and then went from there. Somewhere. Got home about 5. I'm sure lots of interesting things happened. I can't remember them though.

Good times.

 

If i could see daft punk over an over an over again I would! i thought it was one of the most amazing gigs i have ever been to! one thing i would change tho would be bein a lil taller so i could see more! but what i could see an what i heard was unbeliveable! big ups to those guys for putting on a fucking awesome show visually, audiolly an physically. my ears are still oozing out goodness! the whole time i thought my ears were havin a eargasm! wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo DAFT PUNK ROCK!

apparently the presets, who played before, were really good...my friend didnt love cut copy that much, but i wish i coulda seen them too! sounded like a quality support for the ones like daft punk...