Has anyone seen duran duran on their current tour?

i am jealous if this one...
"concerts that i attended with john taylor":

blondie - barbarellas
t. rex & the damned - birmingham odeon
roxy music - bingley hall
queen - birmingham odeon
david bowie - frejus
japan - the venue
johnny thunders' heartbreakers - the rainbow
mick ronson - birmingham town hall
the velvet underground - olympia, paris
robert palmer - birmingham odeon
genesis (lamb lies down show) - birmingham hippodrome
the faces - birmingham odeon

That guy always had good taste!

a ticket to the houston show is $65. in 1984, it cost $13.75. are they five times as good now? i'm thinking no, they aren't.

I think there's five times as much simon as there used to be

factoring in inflation they only have to be twice as good.

sorry.

Would it be ok if I revived this thread to show off my ticket to the ILM massive? No? Tough.

http://deanna.ladyinterference.com/ilx/ddticket01302004.jpg

I went to a show on the recent Duran tour too! I went to a show on the recent Duran tour too!

The ticket prices were only slightly higher than the last time I saw the band in concert, which back in 2001 was approximately $55 for general admission at the House of Blues in Vegas. (So I paid $110 total for those two tickets. Yes, I am an insane fan.)

Under Nick Rhodes' list of "People Who Make Me Laugh":

Oscar Wilde
Peter Cook
Peter Sellers
Woody Allen
Lenny Bruce
Eddie Izzard
The Monty Python Team
Homer Simpson
Dennis Miller
Trey Parker & Matt Stone (aw, giving some props to the cwose fwiends)

The list I found most intriguing was Rhodes' "10 Punk Singles I Own".

"Pretty Vacant" - Sex Pistols
"Chinese Rocks" - Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers
"Hong Kong Garden" - Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Complete Control" - The Clash
"I Am The Fly" - Wire
"Another Girl, Another Planet" - The Only Ones
"New Rose" - The Damned
"Blank Generation" - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
"Hanging Around" - The Stranglers
"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" - The Adverts

This program = definitely worth the $30, IMHO.

Just came back from seeing le Duran at Manchester MEN Arena. Quite the thing (if not the Big Thing).

We saw them a few years back with Warren and without the Taylors, and in all honesty they played much better back then. But... tonight, although the playing was sloppy; the rhythm section kept falling apart and Andy is a pretty sucky guitarist; they had an incredible buzz.

The 1985 split came just as I was entering my gigging years, and so this is the first time I've seen the full lineup. John is a fucking legend. He isn't as technically proficient as the session guy they had filling in for him before, but nevertheless, I would rather see John fuck up the bassline to Rio than see someone else pull it off. He has massive stage presence and there's great chemistry between him and Simon.

Simon seemed so chuffed to have everyone back together; he was really confident and looked fitter and younger than he has in ages. And Nick is the same as ever, but I could watch Nick just making a cup of tea and be the happiest girl in the world.

I didn't buy the programme. But I did bring home some glitter from the exploding glitter fountains.

O happy day.

Saw them at the SECC in Glasgow on Friday and they were great. Women were going MENTAL for them. No Hungry Like The Wolf though!

Full setlist from the current tour:

FRIENDS OF MINE
PLANET EARTH
ASTRONAUT
UNION OF THE SNAKE
COME UNDONE
INSTANT KARMA
SOUND OF THUNDER
HOLD BACK THE RAIN
REFLEX
***interlude***
POINT OF NO RETURN
ORDINARY WORLD
SKIN TRADE
NOTORIOUS
NICE
ELECTRIC BARBARELLA
SAVE A PRAYER
GIRLS ON FILM
SUNRISE
RIO
**FATAL KISS**
A VIEW TO A KILL
WILD BOYS

So no Hungry Like the Wolf indeed, also no Is There Something I Should Know, no Careless Memories, no Chauffeur. Still a cracking set though.

The band rarely play "The Chauffeur" in concert. "Careless Memories" -- only once in awhile. I can't remember if I've ever seen the band play "ITSISK?" in concert aside from the footage from As The Lights Go Down. "Hungry Like The Wolf" isn't their go-to live song, even though you'd think it would be. Their go-to song is "Girls On Film", which I'm not at all surprised they performed. I'm shocked they played "Sound Of Thunder" (I would have cried a bucket of tears if I'd been there), "Hold Back The Rain" (I've never heard them perform that live), and that "Instant Karma" thing was probably a one-time-only deal to honor the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's passing or something. The high number of songs off the most recent album doesn't surprise me one bit. It does surprise me, though, that the band would be playing "Electric Barbarella", especially since that song is SO very much something that screams Warren Cuccurullo. The surprise isn't because of what you might think, i.e. Andy Taylor's possible reticence. No, Andy seems perfectly all right with Warren. No, I'd have thought Simon Le Bon would've wanted to excise any and all references to the band's existence from ca. 1986 - 2001, and it shocks me that a song off Medazzaland would sneak in under the wire like that. Maybe Nick Rhodes had some blackmail polaroids he was using against Simon to force him to agree to perform that song. I wouldn't be at all surprised.

I mentioned The Chauffeur only because it's one of my favourites, and various members of the band have held it up as a favourite.

They played Is There Something I Should Know, Careless Memories and Hungry Like the Wolf when we last saw them, at the Manchester Apollo promoting Meddazzaland (although it hadn't been released in the UK of course, so they didn't actually play very much from the album).

Careless Memories was the one and only cover version that my old band ever played, in fact my husband and I performed it live at our wedding, so that track is kinda special to me. But I wasn't sorry they didn't play it- Sound of Thunder was a nice surprise.

I doubt Nick would need to blackmail Simon to get him to do what he wants, Nick strikes me as being pretty much The Man In Charge.

No 'probably' about Instant Karma; Simon introduced it as a tribute to JL. They did a pretty good job of it actually, though Simon made some changes to the rhythm of the vocal that were a bit... odd.

Hold Back the Rain was a stormer, but the killer number of the night, for me, was definitely A View to a Kill. Aforementioned sloppy timing spoiled Girls on Film somewhat.

I saw them in April of last year, they played 'the chauffeur'when i saw them. The only time i've ever screamed at a gig is when John Taylor came over to my side of the stage. I was only 28 at the time.

I'm 34 leigh - and I'm afraid I may have screamed, just a leetle bit, hehe. It's a good thing I didn't see them when I was 16, I think I would have died.