It’s been almost a week since Daft Punk‘s Rainbow Pyramid of Joy touched down (complete with the 5-tone “Close Encounters” greeting) in Los Angeles and shook 20,000 very happy people into a lather. I don’t have much of a review beyond that. Regardless of how I might come across, the show was a complete thrill. Almost enough to make me reconsider Human After All. It looked like this:
My friends who saw Daft Punk at Coachella last year said the set was virtually identical. No one was surprised, but no one was complaining.
When Planningtorock broke my heart and canceled her opening spot at the Knife show last year, the 2-hour-plus DJ set that took her place was dull and exhausting. So I was pleasantly surprised that SebastiAn and Kavinsky, with even more time to fill, kept the crowd’s interest and energy levels high. The fact that I had a place to sit probably helped. Ratatat‘s live show was more energetic than I would have expected from their albums. Lots of heavy metal guitar theatrics. The visuals were impressive, and “Seventeen Years” brought folks to their feet.
I envy anyone seeing this show at The Greek in Berkeley tonight.
- Photo: robinroces | Video: genelegend
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Hi Kevin. It’s years after the fact but has always bothered me because those (visuals) really sucked! I actually did the lights for Ratatat on that tour and am still so pissed off over how that LA show went over. 17 years is probably one of my favs off the set list. Cool dudes from NY and thanks for saying something positive about the show! Yes, Daft does the same shit over and over, in fact they’ll be tooling around that same light rig until the wheels fall off. Hope you had fun that night:)