

“The philosophy behind it, in as far as the show goes, was to tease the marketplaces and leave people wanting more.” We really underplayed,” the group’s agent, John Pleeter of CAA, tells Billboard. “We easily could have done multiples in some of these markets. Daft Punk will close out the year with performances at Vegoose in Las Vegas (Oct.

9 show at Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y.ĭaft Punk played its first show in nine years at the 2006 Coachella Festival, and positive word-of-mouth in its wake was a huge contributing factor to the success of its recent North American tour.īased on Billboard estimates, the brief run grossed in the neighborhood of $3 million and played to more than 60,000 fans. The tour version of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” will be issued as a single from the live set, and a video, directed by Oliver Gondry, will feature footage shot by fans during an Aug. The album will be available as a single-disc set or a two-disc edition that features the encore and a 50-page book. As first reported here earlier this month, Daft Punk’s June 14, 2007, show in its Paris hometown forms the basis of “Daft Punk Alive 2007,” due Nov.
