UPDATE Tickets via Ticketmaster.
Do you like dance music? Robot dance music? FRENCH robot dance music?
Saturday morning tickets go on sale for Daft Punk's August 9th concert with the Rapture at Coney Island's Keyspan Park. This will be the best concert of the summer. Talk to anyone who was their Coachella performance last year, or talk to anyone who talked to someone who was at their Coachella performance last year, and you will be assaulted by a tsunami of superlatives that will leave you stuck sitting in a tree until the Red Cross comes along (a favorite review: "it was pretty much 3rd Nephi all over again -- the righteous throngs so moved that it instigated two hours of perfect harmony among the attendees").
But why be forced to rely on my word on someone else's word? Here's a video of the entire hour and fifteen minute set:
(If you're not desperately wanting to be at the Coney Island show after the first 3 minutes of that video then you're reading the wrong blog)
And if you're not totally into shakey handheld footage, here's a link to where you can download the whole set:
Daft Punk--Live at Coachella 2006
And, for the sake of completeness, let me post their Alive 1997 concert (which is really, really good. You'll pump your fist):
Daft Punk--Alive 1997
And, oh, what's this? A blog post where someone assembled songs from which Daft Punk had pulled their samples for many a tune?
Daft Punk Sample Post
So, in conclusion: Daft Punk, the French Robots, will be playing Coney Island in August and tickets go on sale on Saturday and this show will be ridiculous. The $50 ticket price might be a little scary, but they've got three opening acts (including the also significantly popular Rapture, which is an absolute cherry ontop of this sundae) and I can't imagine it's cheap to set up a giant pyramid and lightshow. There's going to be some kind of Madison Square Garden Madonna/Justin Timberlake production values going on. Honestly, if you're like in New Zealand or Salt Lake or something and reading this, this is totally the sort of concert worth traveling for.
A very frustrating footnote: Oddly, I cannot figure out who is selling these tickets. Ticketmaster has listings for the three other shows of the tour (in LA, Colorado, and Seattle) but nothing on New York yet. But this is the Brooklyn Vegan post about tickets going on sale, and Brooklyn Vegan wouldn't lie.
8 comments:
I will pay for any fence sitter to go and see this show with Brigham. That's how strongly I feel about it.
Brig, liking what you do, you should DL'ed a lot of this.
That's a complete little mix.
In my book, Heart of Hearts is still the song to beat in 2007.
I will do pretty much anything to be at this concert. I probably listened to approximately 436 hours of daft punk in 2006 alone. That is 18 days of that year, meaning 5% of 2006 was spent with Daft Punk in the background of my life.
Is this going to be Arcade Fire all over again though Brigham? IS IT???
It shouldn't be because we're dealing with a (albeit minor league) baseball stadium here. They need to be able to sell lots of tickets to cover the $3million Daft Punk requires for a show.
I hope you downloaded the 2 hrs. of additional Daft Punk listening I've linked to today.
Brig...maybe you can buy tickets on bowery's website?
http://www.bowerypresents.com/calendar/calendar_200708.html
I got this email from them mentioning the Daft Punk tickets on sale Saturday
Brigham, you are like the Bishop of Good Times that hath brought me unto repentance. I was considering skipping out on this, or not doing everything in my power to go, yet I will forsake all and go. At least to the one in Califonia.
Broek
it seems like what used to be the role of lighters at concerts has been taken over by digital camera/cell phone screens. i guess it's safer.
I'm happy to report that Matt and I will be attending the Denver show in July. It's at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre which should be an excellent experience! And you're right, the fact that The Rapture will be playing as well is just icing on the cake. I'm already marking off the days on my calendar.
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