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Promotions company ICM Media have issued a statement categorically denying that Daft Punk applied for a permit to perform at Wyoming National Monument.
Excitement mounted yesterday amongst Daft Punk fans that the long awaited tour could be on the way, after a story surfaced stating that the robots had applied for a permit to perform at Wyoming National Monument. However according to the new report, the application for the performance was purely speculative, and Daft Punk had not been confirmed to perform.
However now ICM Partners (who don't represent Daft Punk), have steppped forward to clear up the situation, stating that the plans were for a music festival and that Daft Punk were merely a proposed act.
"ICM Partners approached the National Park Service regarding an event which would be held on private property but would include proposed lighting elements at Devils Tower," reads the statement from ICM.
"The agency submitted more than a dozen suggested performers, including Daft Punk, as a sample lineup to the National Park Service. As is the usual case with a music festival, the acts proposed were simply performers and not involved with the planning of this event."
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"No event is going to be occurring in Devils Tower," said Reed Robinson, the superindendent of Devils Tower National Park, in a statement which initially sparked speculation. "Anything that was proposed is a non-starter, is considered an adverse action according to the National Historic Preservation Act, and goes against the Park Service management approach."
"This being a night skies park and a natural park and a sacred site to 24 different tribes, that would be considered sacrilegious and gets into that 'inappropriate use'," he added. "And that meant maybe we would have to close portions of the main trail to facilitate this kind of stuff."
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