The band’s performance was tight and they gave a strong rendition of their studio hits, despite some assistance from pre-recorded, synthesized backup singing. Lead singer Simon Le Bon’s vocals were strong and he can still affect that appealing, Brit-pop croon that made him a teen idol years ago. They played largely from their popular 1980s albums and the “Wedding Album,” with just a brief gloss on their new material, which has a strangely bass-heavy feel reminiscent of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.ĭespite some personnel changes, the band has held up well. 30 concert was any indication, Duran Duran knows where its crumpet is buttered. Their current tour is an attempt to promote their latest offering, “Pop Trash,” which was released in June 2000. The band’s 1993 release, “The Wedding Album,” featuring the two hit singles “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone,” received relative transatlantic success, as the band appropriated acoustic and new wave guitar styling. In the late 1980s, the band fell into obscurity, but on the strength of the early 1990s nostalgic wave, they again found themselves in the public eye, albeit for work done 10 years prior. So, too, with Duran Duran, which seems to emerge every 10 years from pop slumber to churn out another series of catchy riffs that become less and less popular over time.ĭuran Duran first hit it big in the early 1980s with songs like “Girls on Film,” “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “The Reflex,” and “A View to a Kill.” Filled with questionable lyrical craft and a mainstream sound, their music was nevertheless infectious, with its toe-tapping melodic hooks and synthesized effects. When their popularity wanes, rock stars don’t go gently into that good night – they hop a flight to Eastern Europe. 30, but in the aisles and rows, where there should have been dancing, there was only silence. Duran Duran played to a full house at Kyiv’s Ukraina Palace on Jan. The story of the Duran Duran concert was not to be found onstage or even offstage, but in the region between the seats and stage.
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