As close as it gets to Daft Punk
Walking into a Very Disco: A Daft Punk Tribute show is like walking into an electric dance party dream.
“It’s definitely a lot of Daft Punk,” said Alfredo Lapuz, Jr., one-half of Very Disco. “A lot of controlled [visual] surfaces.”
“We think they do some really cool music, and we’re just playing it live and singing it with our voices and real instruments, like keytars,” Stanley Walker said.
Lapuz, known around town as DJ Immuzikation, and Walker have collaborated on other successful projects since moving to Athens together, such as Velveteen Pink and the large-scale Pink Floyd tribute band Pigs on the Wing.
“[Very Disco] was something we had talked about for a while, and the opportunity came for us to do it, so we gave it a shot,” Lapuz said.
VERY DISCO:
A DAFT PUNK TRIBUTE SHOW
When: 10 p.m. Thursday
Where: 40 Watt Club
Price: $10 (21+)/$12 (18-20)
Very Disco’s debut in January at the Georgia Theatre sold out.
It featured an extensive light show and guest musicians like Cinemechanica’s Mike Albanese.
“It seemed like people liked it,” Walker said. “But a lot has changed [in our show] since then.”
The approximately 90-minute set spans Daft Punk’s entire library of songs but reinterprets, rather than recreates, the live Daft Punk experience.
“We’re not trying to do what they’re trying to do,” Walker said.
Neither musician has seen Daft Punk live – the French duo rarely tours America – but they know what the show is like.
“You can’t ever see what they’re doing, ever,” Lapuz said. “You just kind of hear what the music’s doing.”
In contrast to Daft Punk, the two members of Very Disco remain visible through the entire show and incorporate video.
“It’s all connected; it’s all linked,” Lapuz said. “We have a team that runs the video, Integrated Visions.”
Casual fans of Daft Punk can enjoy the show, but dedicated fans will be able to truly appreciate the effort Very Disco has made to pay tribute to the band.
“If you know the music really well, it’s even better because then you can understand all the things that we’re doing in trying to recreate it and play it live,” Lapuz said.
Concertgoers who have attended a previous show will still be surprised.
“[There are] definitely new elements to the show, even since the last time,” Walker said.

