Concert Review: One More Time - Daft Punk Tribute Band

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As the day draws closer and close to the highly-anticipated Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, the French duo has nonetheless caused the Houston area to be excited about the tribute band that made its way to Houston this past weekend at Stereo Live. The band named their group after one of Daft Punk's most prestigious songs on their catalog, One More Time.

After a 30 minute delay, most likely due to technical difficulties, One More Time took the stage. The stage was built as a homage to Daft Punk's 2007 Alive tour with a replica version of their infamous lighted pyramid. The tribute band started off with the "Robot Rock/Oh Yeah" mash up from Daft Punk's live album, Alive 2007, which lifted up the crowd off their feet. They went on to play the classics from the three albums such as "Television Rules The Nation," "Technologic," "Crescendos," "Da Funk," and "Aerodynamics." They also played songs from their Tron: Legacy with "Derezzed" and "The Grid," which got no significant reaction from the crowd.

At some points of the show, for instance when they played "Technologic," there were times when the music wasn't overriding the lyrics. Other times, there was a lack of bass that the speakers failed to produce for the show. All of these fallacies with Stereo Live's sound system made it seemed like they couldn't produce the crisp sound that this act needed to sound at its best. But nothing stopped the crowd from having a good time.

Photo Taken by Roland Ruiz

 

The tribute band went to by playing Daft Punk's new single "Get Lucky" featuring Pharell Williams. After a brief intermission, they came back on to play "One More Time" to close out the show and the crowd applauded with cheerful joy all around. Overall, it was a good show but they could of been at a better venue with a better sound system to perform at. Nonetheless it was a great time for One More Time to come when Daft Punk fever has spread around every EDM fan in Houston.

3.5 out of 5

Next: Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories reviewed by yours truly.
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