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Thursday, February 9, 2023

Duran Duran announce new North American tour

Duran Duran has announced a North American arena tour for 2023, with Bastille and Nile Rodgers & Chic joining them as special guests across the entire run.

It begins in May in San Jose, CA, concludes the first leg in Florida in June and picks up again in late August 24 in Sacramento. Dates in NYC and LA will be announced soon.

On February 13, the artist pre-sale begins at 10am local time for DD VIP members. Members (and those who wish to join) should visit www.duranduran.com and click the MEMBERS tab for more details.

Citi is the official card of the Duran Duran tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning February 13 at 2pm local time until February 15 at 10pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com.

Additional pre-sales will be added on February 14 and will end on February 15 at 10pm local time. Tickets go on-sale to the general-public starting February 16 at 10am local time.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit https://duranduran.com/tour/.

Speaking about the upcoming dates, Simon Le Bon reveals, “It’s remarkable to me that as a band, we are still hitting new milestones, and introducing the sound of DD to new generations of music lovers. We are truly grateful that we get to do what we do on a daily basis, and that we still love our job as much as we did when we started out some four decades ago."

2022 served as something of a landmark year for Duran Duran, having just been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, a career peak that followed a summer live season of epic proportions - headlining London’s Hyde Park in front of 60,000 people, performing at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace and closing the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in their home town of Birmingham, not to mention a headline tour across North America which included sold out shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden and three nights at the Hollywood Bowl.

The cinematic release of their new docu-concert film, ‘A Hollywood High’ followed, before the band capped off the year with a spectacular performance in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, counting fans down into 2023 in front of a live audience of over 1 million people on the streets of Manhattan. All this after the success of new studio album FUTURE PAST, hailed as Duran Duran at their best by critics and fans alike, four decades into their rich and storied career.

Duran enlisted the help of DJ/producer Erol Alkan, pioneering Italian composer/producer Giorgio Moroder (‘BEAUTIFUL LIES,’ ‘TONIGHT UNITED’), Swedish hitmaker Tove Lo on ‘GIVE IT ALL UP,’ Japan’s CHAI on ‘MORE JOY!’. In addition, Blur’s Graham Coxon co-wrote and lends his guitar to several tracks on the record and David Bowie’s former pianist Mike Garson is on album closer ‘FALLING’. The album features long-time collaborator Mark Ronson who co-wrote and played on ‘WING,’ and it was mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.

The deluxe edition of ‘FUTURE PAST (Complete Edition)’ is out now via BMG. The 2LP set includes all 15 tracks from FUTURE PAST plus Duran Duran’s cover of David Bowie’s “Five Years”. The first LP is red, the second is green. The gatefold package features a new silver/grey version of the cover art and also includes two 12″ x 12″ art booklets. Listen/order HERE.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

05/27 – Bottlerock Festival – Napa Valley, CA
05/28 – SAP Center – San Jose, CA
05/31 – Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA
06/01 – Moda Center – Portland, OR
06/03 – Vivint Arena – Salt Lake City, UT
06/06 – Moody Center – Austin, TX
06/07 – Smoothie King Center – New Orleans, LA
06/09 – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – The Woodlands, TX
06/10 – American Airlines Center – Dallas, TX
06/13 – Bridgestone Arena – Nashville, TN
06/15 – State Farm Arena – Atlanta, GA
06/17 – Amalie Arena – Tampa, FL
06/18 – FLA Live Arena – Sunrise, FL
08/24 – Golden 1 Center – Sacramento, CA
08/26 – T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, NV
08/28 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO
08/29 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO
08/31 – Minnesota State Fair – St. Paul, MN*
09/01 – Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island – Chicago, IL
09/03 – CMAC – Canandaigua, NY
09/06 – TD Garden – Boston, MA
09/07 – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA
09/09 – PPG Paints Arena – Pittsburgh, PA
09/10 – Blossom Music Center – Cuyahoga Falls, OH
09/13 – Capital One Arena – Washington, DC
09/16 – Little Caesars Arena – Detroit, MI
09/19 – Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON

‘FUTURE PAST’ (DELUXE) TRACK LIST:

INVISIBLE
ALL OF YOU
GIVE IT ALL UP (Feat. Tove Lo)
ANNIVERSARY
FUTURE PAST
VELVET NEWTON*
BEAUTIFUL LIES
TONIGHT UNITED
WING
NOTHING LESS
LAUGHING BOY*
HAMMERHEAD (Feat. Ivorian Doll)
INVOCATION*
MORE JOY! (Feat. CHAI)
FIVE YEARS*
FALLING (Feat. Mike Garson)
*Bonus Tracks

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