Also reported were dates at the Wireless Festival and RockNess in June, the Oxegen festival in July and Lollapalooza in August. The band later specified a date for a live show at Bercy, Paris for June 2007. In an interview with the Miami Herald Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo stated that their 11 November appearance at the Bang Music Festival was their final for 2006 and that Daft Punk would conduct more performances in the future. He later emphasized his reluctance for such a release, as the duo felt that online amateur videos of their performances were more compelling than anything captured professionally. Thomas Bangalter had initially been reported as saying that there would be a DVD of their recent live set. On 29 April, Daft Punk performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival where they received a jubilant reception for their first U.S. The final digital video streams ran to LED screens." Īt the start of 2006, Daft Punk announced plans for a number of special summer shows. Then they could use Catalyst to coordinate the video with lighting effects and add their own effects in on the fly. Using the eight-core Mac Pros, we were able to take in eight digital sources and treat them as video streams. "They wanted to mix live video with effects. "They came to us with a pretty fixed idea of what they wanted", said head of XL Video, Richard Burford. Daft Punk approached the company with their visual concept for the shows.
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The company provided eight-core Mac Pro units running Catalyst v4 and Final Cut Pro. The visuals of the tour were set up by XL Video.