Daft Punk Is Not Touring. We Repeat: Daft Punk Tour Rumors Are False

• <p>I saw a news item regarding this on television last night. Thanks for the more in-depth explanation</p>

• <p>Actually they are touring. To promote Tron Legacy and the soundtrack. </p>

• <p>Martin, I get it. I know some of these don't come here. But you have had no less than four posts in a week bitching about it. Does anyone really need to hear that anymore? </p> <p>Maybe next week we can have a "Led Zeppelin Skips Phoenix" post, or a "Michale Jackson skips Phoenix" post? </p> <p>Maybe if this paper gave decent coverage to shit SOME TIMES things would be better. </p> <p>Monsters Of Folk only played 10 cites in the whole country and this paper had nothing good to say about it, no words of encouragement, and talked shit on one of the single neatest promotions of any concert all year. Then you complain that these acts skip Phoenix. Do you think these acts don't notice when they get great press in all these cities they do go to but shitty press when they come here? </p> <p>I know Jeff Tweedy does solo shows regularly, but this winter he is doing ONE and it is here and the first thing YOU have to say on it is negative. </p> <p>I don't expect you to be a cheerleader, no one thinks we are the same city as LA or NYC, but it would be nice to read the New Times one week without 6 shitty articles or blogs.</p> <p>It undercuts and diminishes all the good things you do post. You do give a lot of worthy things great coverage. But it gets drowned out by the constant complaining about things that are not worth complaining about. </p> <p>Why did Daft Punk tour rumors have to turn into an attack on Phoenix? I really don't see the connection. <br /> </p>

• <p>MC, I do agree with you that given our population we should get these tours and there's no question that having lived here has tempered my expectations. I understand I'll have to go to LA to see certain artists and I have dozens of times over the years. I'm just done bitching about it.</p> <p>I've seen way too many fantastic and intimate shows (mostly at modified, nita's, etc) to complain that we don't get every tour. Would I like to live in a hipper place that draws all the bands? Hell, yeah. That said, I think Steve, the folks at Stateside and to a lesser extent Lucky Man do a good job booking gigs.</p> <p>The last time I recall Radiohead playing here was the Summer of '95 at the Nile. It wasn't a sellout... There may have been other shows but that's the last one I recall...and yeah, it's a bummer.</p>

• <p>azecho: See, I think the fact that you've lived her for 15+ years has lowered your expectations.</p> <p>You say: "there's no way they play here."</p> <p>I say: Why the fuck won't they play here if they play anywhere in the U.S. outside NY and LA? We're the fifth largest city in the country, we ought to get these shows?!</p> <p>Dare I bring up the "Radiohead thing." Radiohead pretty much never skips Cleveland, which, as a city, is smaller than MESA. When's the last time they played here? That's super annoying, guys.</p>

• <p>I'm with Steve on this one, MC. Getting a one-off, solo, Tweedy show at the Orpheum is awesome for Phoenix. Like you noted in your piece, Wilco played Flag and Tucson on their two most recent tours and while I roadied to both, it sucked for Phoenix.</p> <p>Daft Punk is great in their own right but having lived in PHX for 15+ years I realize there's no way they play here if they tour or not. </p> <p>So I'm gonna choose to celebrate the glass half full and look forward to an amazing show on 12/27 in Phoenix.</p> <p>Apparently, it ain't ovah.</p> <p>D</p>

• <p>It's not that Daft Punk is a bigger deal, it's that these deals are not in the same stratosphere.</p> <p>I don't recall doing any "bands that aren't touring anywhere" posts but, yes, A LOT of people in this town notice that we, as the fifth largest city in the U.S., are getting skipped for shows we should be getting. It's ridiculous, frankly. This is not just my issue, Steve, it's something people ask me about ALL THE TIME and something any author here has noticed on his or her own and decided to point out.</p> <p>Re: Phooson: That show has been in Phoenix before, and it does look bad that we're losing it to a market that is 1/6th the size. Just as we lose TONS of shows to a market that is 1/6th the size.</p> <p>Jeff Tweedy playing a one-off is cool, and I'll enjoy the novelty of it, but it's still sort of sad that the whole band won't come here - we just get the singer and an acoustic guitar.</p>

• <p>I am not saying it is a bigger deal, I just am not into electronic music as much. </p> <p><br /> My point is when a band is not touring at all anywhere it is a "why are they not coming to Phoenix post," when a band that sucks is not coming it is a "why are they not coming to Phoenix post," when a show that has the word Tucson in its name goes to Tucson it is a "why are they not coming to Phoenix post," and when it is an act that is one of your favorites that is only doing a Phoenix date and no where else in the whole world some how it is still a "why are they not coming to Phoenix post."</p>

• <p>Steve, Wilco is probably my favorite band of all-time, but if you really think you'd prefer a Jeff Tweedy show to fucking Daft Punk you're having a psychotic break.</p> <p>Psyko Steve: Not just a funny nickname anymore :-)</p> <p>Also, Tweedy will probably play another dozen solo shows before next year is over. Daft Punk will probably play no shows anywhere, ever.</p>

• <p>I will take THE ONLY DATE IN THE WORLD for a solo Jeff Tweedy show this winter over this anyway. </p>

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