The Daft Punk announcement was posted on a fake website (Picture: glastomburyfestivals.co.uk)

Daft Punk fans have expressed their disappointment after a hoax claimed that the French band had been added to line-up of this summer’s Glastonbury festival.

A fake news page was created on glastomburyfestivals.co.uk reporting that Daft Punk would be playing alongside headliners Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones and Mumford and Sons at Worthy Farm in Somerset.

Even ITV were taken in by the prank announcing the news on their website before Twitter users started to point out it was just a hoax.

Fans said they were ‘gutted’ and hoping that it could still come true as the band prepare to release their fourth album Random Access Memories.




JayDavisBlue tweeted: ‘Argh! Daft Punk playing #glastonbury is a hoax. Gutted.’

marlonbunyip said: ‘Rumours of Daft Punk playing at Glastonbury appear to be a cruel hoax.’

samplantbored wrote: ‘daft punk glasto hoax is just about the worst trick you can pull on me, i believed it for a second then realised i was on glastoMbury haha.’

Ian_Green83 added: ‘Gutted the Daft Punk at Glastonbury rumour is a hoax. Would have loved to see them.’

Meanwhile, Daft Punk’s comeback single Get Lucky has broken the record for the mosty single day streams in Spotify’s history in the US and UK.

The band, made up of Thomas Bangalter and Gus De Homem-Christo, beat the record set by Bastille’s Pompeii in the UK and Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop in the US.

Random Access Memories is Daft Punk’s first album since 2005.