It's the question on everyone's lips - 'Why did Daft Punk choose Wee Waa to launch their brand new album?'

Internationally renowned French electrodance duo Daft Punk have chosen local farming community Wee Waa to launch their new album in May.

The album is highly anticipated because it's only their fourth since their first release in 1997. 'Random Access Memories' will be launched on the 17th of May at a massive event held at the Wee Waa Showground. Details are sketchy at this early stage, but here is what we know so far:

Sony representatives first made contact a few weeks ago with Narrabri Shire Council. Mayor Conrad Bolton told Breakfast today he thought it was mates playing a trick on him.

"It was a random call... from Sony Australia... and after the call, of course, I hung up and thought 'which one of my mates is pulling my leg here' - it was so left of field. As it turned out it was a fair dinkum call and we've been working on it since then," says Mayor Bolton.

"It's been hard to keep a cap on it, I mean it's such exciting news, but anyway we've managed to get things in place and work things out and now the world's been told about it!" he says.

"What the band wanted to do is capture Wee Waa and the surrounds and the people, and they want to feed that into their video release and then beam that out on the night.

The satellite dishes are all going to be part of the final video released that night, the town is going to have a great time," he says.

"It was quite special for them to pick Wee Waa and I think we are pretty grateful for that!" reflects Mayor Bolton.

"I think the town will reach capacity pretty quick - I think I'll be flat out getting a room at my own house somehow on the night it'll be so full!" the Mayor laughs.

There will be a community meeting on Friday night at 5.30pm in Wee Waa with Sony representatives in attendance to bring the community "right up to speed".

Triple J say they are just as surprised by Daft Punk's choice of Wee Waa, and JJJ music reviewer Lauchie Macara had plenty to say on The Morning Show to Kelly Fuller.

"They are basically two dudes, they wear robots suits alot of the time, no-one's really ever seen what they look like, ever seen their faces.

They have put a disco tint on electonic music but their album due to come out in May, is probably the most anticipated album of the year," says Macara.

"So when we heard yesterday they were launching their album in Wee Waa, we were pretty surprised," he says.

How big is the fan base you may ask? Well Lauchie reckons it's massive!

"They are enormous! Every day there seems to be a new rumour of them touring - they've only ever been to Australia once in 2006, and it was sold out."Their fan base would be in the tens of millions world wide -they are an enormous band!" Tirple J's Lauchie Macara says.

Inthemix.com are reporting Sony Australia bought the domain name 'www.daftpunkweewaa.com' yesterday.

We hear tickets will go on sale this Friday 9am through the Narrabri Crossing Theatre. We are told 3,500 tickets will be sold, and let's be honest, the Wee Waa Show (on the same weekend at the Showground) will have never seen such crowds... ever!