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Is Daft Punk About to Announce Their ALIVE 2017 Tour?
It’s been rumored for months but it looks as if Daft Punk is about to finally embark on their Alive Tour.
A viral video was discovered by a reddit user last night, which teases a countdown to the 20th anniversary of Homework.
The title of said video? ALIVE 2017. And it ends with the Daft Punk logo. The numbers under the video, according to reddit users, are locations for the tour (unconfirmed locations here).
While the video has yet to be confirmed, an announcement is imminent. A Daft Punk tour is one of the most anticipated in years. The band last played live at the Grammy Awards in 2014. Prior to that? Their world tour in 2006! For fans of Daft Punk, this news could cause heads to explode.
2016 was kind to Daft Punk. The duo finally had their first ever no. 1 single, thanks to The Weeknd. They appear on Starboy‘s final track, “I Feel it Coming”, as well as the album’s title track.
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.