Random Access Memories comes to most random place

A remote farming town in Australia is set to hit the global stage next month after French electro-pop duo Daft Punk picked it for the global launch of their new album. Wee Waa, with a population of just 1,653 and about 500km northwest of Sydney, will host the official launch of Random Access Memories, Daft Punk's first album in eight years, local officials said. The album will be released on May 21 but it is set to be played for the first time anywhere in the world at an exclusive 4,000-ticket party at the annual Wee Waa agricultural show on May 17. Daft Punk themselves will not be attending, but the Wee Waa Show Society are claiming it as a major coup for the event, where the highlights are usually a pet show and wood-chopping contest. But I couldn't care less. They only have one good song out and no it's not on the new album. But there is something worth caring about from the convict-free side of the ditch: researchers in Christchurch and Otago are developing a new breakthrough test to help the World Anti-Doping Agency uncover drug cheats in sport, and if it works, then there will never be another Lance Armstrong.