DAFT PUNK
Friday 11 September 2026 · 9:00 PM – 11:03 PM (Europe/Dublin)
Big Top
Opening Night Concert
Details
Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo met Thomas Bangalter when they both attended school in Paris in 1987. In 1992, they recorded a song under the name Darling, which in turn found its way onto a compilation single issued on Stereolab's Duophonic label. A review in the UK's Melody Maker described their effort as "a bunch of daft punk", which depressed the pair but unwittingly gave them a name for their next project. Increasingly influenced by the house sounds filtering across from the UK and the USA, they signed with the Scottish label Soma Records and, in 1994, released the single New Wave. However, it was their 1995 offering, an insanely catchy slice of techno /funk, Da Funk, that really set the Daft Punk bandwagon rolling, especially when the Chemical Brothers spotted its floor-filling potential during their DJ sets.
Know before you go
Facilities in the festival’s campsites, including the accessible campsite, will be brought up a notch with more showers, toilets and Get Ready With Me (GRWM) stations which will include mirrors, straighteners, and hairdryers. The new campsites, which needed to be pre-booked at no extra cost, include the Glitterball Campsite added to the reformatted Poets Camp and the existing Eco and An Láthair Ghaeltachta. Reservations for the pre-booked campsites are one booking per person – not per tent, so everyone staying there will need to have their own bookings.