Last update Jan. 5, 2013

January 5, 2013 | First post of the year 2013, Happy new Duran-year!

The main news is: the band will re-team with Ronson to work on the next album in March 2013! Even if the guys are on a well deserved break they are already planning the band's next moves... According to John the band had a conference call with Mark Ronson recently. He reports on the official site "All systems are go for a return to work in the studio first week of March.
I could not be more excited about that" says Nick. "I'm very very happy that we are gonna be working with Mark Ronson again. We all feel that it was the best combination we had in many many many years. He clearly understand us well, and we had a lot of fun togehter so that is a good sign."

John continues: "I’m thinking maybe this is going to be the best album we have ever made. I have to think like that, even if it’s delusional. It’s always possible. You’re dealing with energy and chemistry. It’s like catching a spirit in the air. It’s difficult because we write together, and we protect that process. One of our greatest strengths is that we write democratically, as a team. But it also has its downsides. It can be a clumsy way to work, at times. But everybody’s happy to work that way.

 

December 18, 2012 | Koishii & Hush [Simon Langford & Alex Hush], the production team hailing from both the UK and Canada has teamed up with John to bring 2013 a brand new sound. Somewhat soulful, a little sensitive, and definitely catchy. “C’est Tout Est Noir“ is a genuine blend of pop and electronic, combining the best of both worlds.

We got the chance to interview the duo about the upcoming release, they were cool enough to answer all our question about the song defined by John as the follow up to ‘I Do What I Do’.

salvo@duranasty.com | Can you tell us about the collaboration with John Taylor, how it started? Were you introduced to him by mutual friends in the music business or you just got in touch and offered him to take part in the project?

Koishii & Hush: For our album, we had a wish list of people that we wanted to collaborate with and John was one of them. We approached him with our idea and luckily he was interested... Read the full interview Here!

 

July 9, 2012 | All the Duran Duran fans are ready for this new chapter of the Duran Duran history! Methaphorically speaking this is the conclusive chapter of the 'All You Need Is Now' book... Duran Duran has a fantastic summer ahead, including tours in the U.S. and Europe and a concert in Hyde Park for the opening of the Olympic Games. John's autobiography and Nick & Warren's TV Mania project will be released in the fall and in February 2013 the band will reconvene into the studio to start writing new material with Mark Ronson; according to this interview the band hadn't really talked about the new direction the album might take but Nick thinks "it would have to be a logical continuation of All You Need Is Now, maybe, Rhodes says, something a little more funk... something with one's eye on Notorious actually..."

 

 

May 1, 2012 | In a recent Katy's Kafe Roger Taylor talk about the band's intention to go back into the studio early next year after taking a bit of time off. Roger's spontaneous and candid statement is all the fans needed now! The way Roger speaks lead us to think that the guys already know who will be producing their next work.

Roger: "Well, we are talking about early next year actually, I can't say who we're gonna be recording with... at this point... cos I'm sure that's going to be a big announcement in itself. But, I can't possibly announce myself, right now. But, it's exciting!

And, yeah, we're gonna have a bit of time off after these run of dates, once we've been around the US again, and we'll have some time off, and restart next year, early next year."

 

April 8 2012 | Happy Easter! | The band has just concluded a successful australasia tour. They played 10 shows in 20 days travelling from Dubai to Singapore, from Seoul to Hong Kong heading to Australia where they played six more fantastic shows. Meanwhile Duran have announced some more dates of their Summer 2012 tour. Thus far, 10 European and 12 North American dates.

The question is: Is the band ready for a new album? John Taylor in a recent intervierw says: "I have no idea what next year is going to look like, I have no idea what the next music that we write is going to sound like. I have no idea who’s going to produce the next album; if there’s even going to be a next album! I just don’t know. I’m up for it; if that’s the way it rolls out. When you’re in I think we always have to keep the energy flowing, there’s nothing worse than art that’s devoid of energy and new ideas. Otherwise it starts to get flat and boring, and we’ve been through phases like that. Anybody that’s been making albums for 30 years is going to have flat and boring albums in that mix, you just have to make sure the next one isn’t one of them."

This new installement is almost entirely dedicated to this new recent chapter of the All You Need Is Now World Tour. We have some cool reports and reviews from our friends around the globe, pics, exclusive scans and video downloads.

 

February 27, 2012 | Hi all! It's been a month since the last site installment and I'm so glad to finally deliver this new one... updates are becoming increasingly rich, long and full of stuff just because our band is active and productive, so there's always a lot to report about and share with you all.

It is a real pleasure to inform you that this month we celebrate the 10th anniversary of duranasty.com, it seems yesterday that I started this site switching from writing Duran reports and reviews for photocopied fanzines to writing on a html editor... trying to put into practice my first knowledge of web design. Here we are 10 years later. Hope you enjoyed the ride that made us go through an exciting reunion, three albums, different collaborations, three world tours, many lifetime achievements and a lot of little big things in the duranuniverse.

I just want to thank all of you who have supported the site over the years and have shown appreciation for what I do. So thank you!

March will be full of shows and we'll have a lot to look forward to from a mediatic point of view with new interviews, pics and reports from Australia, Korea, South America and so on. So before we turn the page of the Duran Duran book to read another chapter we want to look back at the first leg of the Euro tour. So this new installament will be filled with all the regular current news [just below] and reviews, pics, scans and interviews regarding those two incredible weeks of european shows. Enjoy!

 

January 16, 2012 | Just a few days at the start of the first leg of the All You Need Is Now European tour in Klosters, Switzerland... and it's all again very exciting! The guys have been doing some interviews over the latest days with Swiss and German media in support of their euro shows. Some interesting news are starting to leak. Here is what John answers in the exclusive interview published on the current issue of Swiss News magazine to the question "What does thefuture hold for Duran Duran?"

I think that we are going to be playing concerts until the end ofthe next summer, and then, maybe we will make another video. Girl Panic has been such a blockbuster hit that we are now thinking of doing something else - similar but different. This is as far as we have planned, but the end of the road is nowhere near in sight. We have to wait for the Rolling Stones to break up first, and then start to count clown ten years or so! But seriously, we can’t give it up — we are having too much fun! There is a sense of rebirth in the band at the moment and we are riding it.

 

Jaunuary 6, 2012 | "The entire band are in unison- absolutely fabulous tour darlings, a terrific closing to an extraordinary year for Duran" John Taylor."

With this sentence, dated Deecember 21th 2011, one year after the digital release of All You Need Is Now, John Taylor sums up nicely what 2011 has been for the band and their loyal fan-base. It has been an incredible year for Duran Duran whom enjoyed a commercial and critical renaissance, confirming to a new generation of fans that they are one of the world’s coolest band.

In a recent message to the fan-base the band says: "Together we have achieved things this year that we are incredibly proud of and that have been real career high-points for us. We are incredibly grateful for your support on each and every one of these - and for sticking with us over the summer when we lost close to five months worth of touring."

The guys are currently at home enjoying a well deserved Christmas/festive break. But they are also looking forward to the new year! It looks like 2012 is gonna be another fantastic Duran Duran year as there are already plenty of plans going on... we have a lot to look forward to! Let's see what they have in store for us...

 

November 16 | Duran Duran were one of the attractions of SWU Music & Arts Festival, held on november 12, 13 and 14 in Paulinia, São Paulo. They played on the Energia stage for 75 minutes in front of 45000 people. In an interview with the brazilian website Terra, John Taylor said "Festivals are true celebrations of music". Our friend and correspondent Faby Torras and her friends have traveled from Argentina to attend this great event. Faby has just sent a nice report of her fan experience in Sao Paulo, check it out!

 

November 5, 2011 | There is much excitement in Duranworld for the upcoming premiere of the Girl Panic! video happening at Harpers Bazaar 'Woman of the Year' event in London [Claridge’s Hotel in Mayfair] on Monday november 7... At this point the guys should all be back in UK preparing for this huge event and hopefully for some more media promotion and buzz that the video will certainly generate... But before we turn page and look to another chapter of the Duran Duran history about the guys touring the UK we want to look back... not too far... We want to celebrate, with this new installment, the successfull North American Tour and post some other interesting little news, scans and pictures! Read it all by clicking the link below!

 

October 3, 2011 | Hi everybody! It 's been a while since the last site update and I hope you haven't missed the site that much... I'm happy to be here with a new installment about this new fan-tastic chapter of the the Duran Duran history. Duran Duran's North American tour has kicked off in Everett, Washington, and they already played in Portland, Saratoga and just some days ago a they played successful shows in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.The North American tour will end in Atlantic City, NJ on October 29. Highlight of the tour will be the Madison Square Gardens show on October 25.

The concert is a multimedia show, it blends songs from "All You Need is Now," some of their major hits and some surprises are expected along the way, gems from the early albums... great stuff that has played during the the recent Uk rehearsal shows...

 

July 12, 2011 | Hi guys, duranasty.com is about to go on holiday as it usually does over the summertime but before I leave I just want to deliver you one last update filled with news, pics and scans from international mags.

The Duran guys have been enjoying some holidays before the band reconvene in London next week for a new rehearsal session. John has been posting pics as he travels around the british countryside these days while Simon has been sailing for 1 week on the Adriatic Sea with his family. He left Split, in Croatia, on july 3 and arrived to Venice on the 10th.

I hope you enjoy this new site update, it's my way to wish you all a great summertime! For the european fans, I know, it's not going to be as we all hoped but I'm sure we all have our show, sooner or later.

Just want to wish one more time our dear frontman a a full recovery from his voice problems and I also want to congratulate Roger and Gisela for their newborn, Julian Roger Taylor who saw the light of day on july 9.

 

June 17: London Report | duranasty.com's friends Cinzia and Serena have just been in London and met the guys. Cinzia, who had a long chat with our frontman, reports that Simon is well in good spirits and his voice problems are improving thanks also to the specific programme that he has been following. She also reports that Simon is still seeing the voice therapist/vocal trainer on a daily basis and he does specific exercises to reach the high notes. Last friday [june 10], Simon was quite happy as he noticed that he reached some more of his lost semitones, our correspondent reports... More about this report and about John and Gela in France and duranasty.com's tribute to Girls On Film 30th anniversary at the following link:

 

June 10 | I hoped to deliver you reviews and pictures of the Berlin and London shows... I hoped to write about their great performance, the amazing stage [the band has been rehearsing in a large scale stage and theatre productions studio rather than the usual studio so I assume the stage and the lighting they had for the Uk tour were massive], about their new look and so on... but I can only report about my recent meeting with the guys in London, in the days when they announced the O2 postponement and when they probably decided what to do with the rest of the Uk tour. To paraphrase Nick Rhodes, the last few weeks have been "a little tumultuous..." Berlin has been postponed two times and the Uk tour will be probably rescheduled in November/December 2011. The first five shows of the european tour have been postponed and we still don't know how this situation will affect the remaining scheduled shows but I guess everybody, at this point, is prepared for the worst so it won't be a surprise for anyone if the band will be forced to postpone some more shows to make sure that Simon gets better and returns at his best and with his voice 100% recovered. If you want to read more, including news about the Girl Panic! video shooting in London and get also some new exclusive candid pics click the link below.

 

May 19, 2011 | Simon Le Bon has been diagnosed with laryngitis, first two shows of the Uk tour have been postponed

Press release | Following tonight’s postponement of Duran Duran’s Newcastle show, the band have been forced to reschedule their Scottish date [originally scheduled to play tomorrow -May 19- at Glasgow’s SECC] on doctor’s advice given today to singer Simon Le Bon, who has been diagnosed with laryngitis.

So, while everyone is excited about the upcoming Uk tour which promises to be as memorable as the reunion one, let's just relive what the band has been up to in the last two weeks.

  • NRJ Energy Fashion Night, Hallenstadion, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • RDS Auditorium Multimediale, Rome, Italy
  • Cannes, France: show at the launch of Belvedere’s RED at House of Hype.

 

 

May 8, 2011 | This new duranasty.com installment is all about the memorable american tour, for everyone who wants to relive almost two months of work that the band has done in Usa [including Canada till the last date in in the Dominican Republic].

This post is filled with lots of great pics, galleries, magazines and newspaper scans so there's a lot to watch, read and save for your Duran Duran collection. 'Big' is the only way to celebrate the great Us promotion, which included many acoustic gigs [Simon, John, Dom and Ana], radio, some tv and of course the concerts. Big is also going to be this installment that will focus on the major Duran Duran events and the most interesting news and pics.

At the end of the page you'll find also some cool info and tidbits including also a TVMania, a SYN and Reportage upadte and some very interesting news about the european tour. Enjoy it all! Till the next time.

 

March 16 | Duran Duran's visit to Milan in late february was originally announced as a special event/show organized by Vogue Italia and Comune di Milano within the Milan fashion week but it became more that what we all expected.

It actually became the proper high profile European launch of All You Need Is Now with a huge exposure for the band as the amount of media coverage [national and international], and interest were great! Exposure was multiplied also because of the Fashion Week as Milan was at the center of the international media attention and of course the guys didn't miss the chance to attend fashion shows and parties in the city.

Duran Duran's trip to Milan started on the 23 of february and ended on the 27 and it included also a full promo-radio day, a press/media day and a national sunday afternoon tv show.
I have been lucky enough to see the guys over the 5 days in different location and situations. I had a great time with the guys, with my long time duranie-friends and also living the beautiful atmosphere of the Milan fashion week. On February 25, 2011 Duran Duran, were rewarded by Milan Major Letizia Moratti as innovators not only in music, but also in the costume and fashion. The same day band performed at the Vogue Party organized at Teatro dal Verme thanks to the patronage of the Milan Municipality and to the sponsors: Peugeot and Hogan. Check out the extensive day by day report filled with over 100 new exclusive pics, the full press review about the event, a transcription of the very interesting press conference and lots more!

 

February 21, 2011 | Press release | Duran Duran have signed an exclusive UK deal with independent sales and distribution company Essential Music, to release the full-length physical version of their 13th studio album All You Need Is Now, slated for release March 21st.

Featuring five brand new tracks, the extended lp comes three months after a critically-acclaimed nine song version of the record was released digitally, exclusively on iTunes, and hit the #1 spot on download charts in 15 countries [including the UK].

The new deal, will see Essential Music handling sales and distribution of the 14 track extended album in both digital and physical formats, across all retail and online outlets, including Amazon, HMV direct and Play.com.

 

February 7, 2011 | It's been a very busy time for the guys since I last updated the site, lots of media activity, the announcement of the Uk tour dates and the first big live event since the album release, at the Pepsi Fan Jam - Grand Prairie in Texas. There's a lot to report about so let's start from the latest events. So in case you have missed something here is your recap on all the current Duran Duran things!

How cool is start a new site update with so many intriguing news, and it's even cooler if you have such a great and artish photo session to play with! These great pics are part of the 12 page feature on the february issue of Love magazine just out in Uk! Scans of this and other magazines are up on this new special news page! Check it out!

 

 

January 18, 2011 | Just announced the release date of the physical album and single: march 21 and february 24! Duran Duran are planning to tour the world in 2011, including some special shows, where they'll play the new LP front-to-back. "Writing and recording a new album is the most challenging part of the job," says Taylor. "Now we can relax and plan our year on the road". More press coverage, news and pictures! Check out the new site update!

 

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