Duran Duran

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When:

Wed 26 Mar ’08, 8:00pm–12:00pm

Where: Vector Arena, 42-80 Mahuhu Crescent, Auckland CBD Show map

Ticket Information:

A RESERVE: $119.90
B RESERVE: $99.90
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www.duranduran.com

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In Australia to co-headline the V Festival, DURAN DURAN will treat New Zealand fans to a very special one off show in Auckland.

Eventfinder has three double passes for their Vector Arena show. To be in to win, go to the Comments section below and tell us what you were doing when you first saw their mind-opening videos in the days when MTV played music all the time. Maybe it was "Girls On Film" or "Hungry Like the Wolf" or "Rio"...you pick any video you recall and tell us what it meant to you. We'll pick the three best stories and you'll be off to the show.

Fusing pop music, art and fashion with their own inimitable style and confidence, DURAN DURAN have remained an unstoppable global pop phenomenon, still commanding the respect of those at the top of their game as the much anticipated release of “Red Carpet Massacre” demonstrates.

Featuring collaborations with top producers Timbaland and Nate “Danja” Hills, as well as the current king of pop, Justin Timberlake, “Red Carpet Massacre” proves DURAN DURAN are still a force to be reckoned with.

Last down under with Robbie Williams in 2003, DURAN DURAN’S live performances left all who witnessed them in no doubt these guys have nothing left to prove and everything to play for.

Mixing dance-inducing rhythms & experimental electronics, DURAN DURAN lay claim to some of the most infectious pop tunes to permeate the global pop consciousness – “Planet Earth”, “Hungry Like The Wolf”, “Girls On Film”, “Rio”, “The Reflex” – to name but a few.

Don’t miss the original “Wild Boys”, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor strut their stuff.

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bidesmyl 4 years ago

I was 14 when I first saw MTV video of Duran Duran, Save a Prayer. I have been listening to their music but this video really transfixed me. From that time onwards, I just sat watching MTV hoping to see either this video or the other ones they have made.
Now I didn't realise, but my husband was also a huge fan of theirs. I found out only when he came home one day with a music CD of Duran Duran's Greatest.
I have to say, my marriage was given a boost by the music that brought us back memories of the days we didn't know each other.
Thanks, Duran Duran.
zeth 4 years ago

Hi Duran fans
check out lonelysatelites.com
a NZ/Australian Duran Duran forum. It's a great board to talk all things Duran, and non-Duran. Lots of concert excitement too.
Content Editor 4 years ago

Hi you guys,
Thanks for all your amazing entries - we had quite a laugh in the office. The hairbrush really was the 'mic' of our childhoods wasn't it!? Classic!
Sorry we can only choose three winners - especially since all your entries were so hard case.
This time the winners are:
- McBride
- kebabette
- 1toomany
Thanks again for your efforts, and for those of you who didn't win this time - keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming competitions - there's some good ones on the way!
Gina @ Eventfinder
Tahlulah 4 years ago

The Reflex was my absolute favourite video in the world. I first saw it when i was in holiday in Australia on TV and I thought it was just fab. I imagined myself standing in the front row with all that water pouring down onto me. I was such a Duran Duran fan that I had a whole scrapbook with every cut out and picture I could find from every magazine I could get my hands on. I even started calling myself Mrs Nick Rhodes on all my school books. I also had a secret crush on Simon and John - didn't everyone? To this day i am still a Duran Duran fan and would love to see them. I say PICK ME!!!!
Tracey Bosson 4 years ago

OMG - we were such HUGE fans! There were five of us, and as luck would have it we all adored a different band member. There was a sleepover almost every weekend at one of our houses, and we'd pre-book the music video hits video and watch it over and over and over. Angela's house was the best DD party place, she had a rumpus room downstairs, so after we'd watched the video a few dozen times, giggled and danced up a storm (and Ren & Rolly were sick of the racket!) we'd go downstairs room and play all their records - really loud - and giggle and dance some more. We were completely crazy for the boys. We even started writing our own book in which, of course, the five of us girls lived together in a girls boarding school dorm, and the boys (who lived nearby in the boys boarding school dorm! of course) would visit, and the 10 of us would get up to all sorts of mischief – exactly the sort of thing 14/15 year old girls dream of. LOL. Even now when I hear a Duran Duran song the volume is cranked up and I am instantly transported back to those day-dreaming, carefree days spent with my best mates at Hendy-High! Oh, how I wish I could go back in time.
I also recall Mum spending hours preparing and papering my walls with lovely new wall paper, only to have it almost completely covered up with posters of the band the moment the paste was dry! Mad, totally and utterly, completely crazy for Duran Duran. They were all we could think about, their music made us come alive, and looking at them made us weak at the knees… and I suppose I should come clean, I have a wee confession to make… I still have a small photo of Roger tucked away in my jewellery box! Oh no… my secret is out
1toomany 4 years ago

When I saw the 'Wild Boys' video it changed my life. I had never seen a music video or band like it. The budget must have been in the millions...and that was just to pay for the hair-product! After watching this clip over and over again, courtesy of my beta video recorder, I came to the conclusion that I had to emulate these fullas. So I saved up my school lunch money for almost a year and splashed out on the coolest threads I could afford from Warnocks, scored a pair white slip-ons from Hannahs and raided the shelves at the chemist of their entire supply of new-wave gel. It was a monumental battle trying to tame my tongan afro but after hours of ironing (my hair, not my clothes) I stood in front of the mirror looking like Sione Le Bon.
:)
spicegirly72 4 years ago

The charts were all playing
That great 80’s sound
From Cyndi, to Wham
We were dancing around
Duran Duran offered
A synthesised beat
And Simon Le Bon
I had wanted to meet
Their songs were melodic
Their videos grand
These new romantics
Were the sexiest band
In ‘Rio’ they walked
On a golden sand
And A View to a Kill
Had them on the French land
Wherever they went
Female fans let out screams
It’s a pity their love
Lived out only in dreams.
Astrav 4 years ago

I first saw Girls on Film on RTR. When Girls on Film hit # 1 on the countdown, I rushed home in the middle of my work shift to see it. Hope the boss didn't notice me missing in action, lol. Radio with Pictures featured a whole show to their concert, live in london. They were due to play in Auckland in 1984 I think. I had concert tickets, flights and accom sorted, but show cancelled and I was absolutely gutted! Can I get to be 14 again and see the boys in action?
spicegirly72 4 years ago

Ooops, meant to say Boy George ... not Bog George. He he he :-)
spicegirly72 4 years ago

I remember watching the video on t.v. to A View to a Kill. I don't think it was Ready to Roll; I think it was a Saturday morning show. I was totally in love with Simon Le Bon and a few years later would find myself buying a 'Drum' tee-shirt when he was here in Auckland with his yacht, just to go in the draw to win a dinner with him. Needless to say, it never happened :-( A View to a Kill sticks in my mind though because it was from a James Bond movie and my boyfriend at the time (although I was all of 10) was an avid Bond man. I wanted to impress, so knew all the words! Mind you, my favourite music magazine (the No.1 magazine) which at $1.20 did not leave much change from my pocket money, used to have the lyrics to songs in it every week. I'm sure I learnt it from there, as Google had not been invented! The video was great. Simon looked SO COOL in his white trenchcoat and beret. But my favourite part was when the telescope turned into a gun. I think that was John Taylor on that. Roger was cute too. Nick was always a little too effeminate for me ... which was kinda weird because I was a HUGE Bog George fan too. Ohhh, the good ol' 80's. They rocked!!
cashntango 4 years ago

Unfortunetly my parents left England before I got to see them. I can remember though putting on their videos and dnacing around the lounge singing into my hairbrush and copying Simon's moves. It was great when I could get four friends involved as we all took a part each and sang and danced our way through the day. Iwas usually Simon singing into my hairbrush or John strumming on the old tennis racket.
karlos 4 years ago

As an ex pom well at least I like to think so, the early 80's was my heyday is was a true blue "new romantic" hair ever changing eye liner the lot thought these guys were really cool even adopted the crimped fringe the big frilly pirate shirts and leather jeans of Simon and dressed in a similar way to all of them depending on where i was going. I went to one of the first concerts they ever did at Rock city in Nottingham. About a year or so later just after Planet Earth came out I went
to see them again on that tour and have been a fan efer since.
D M Robertson 4 years ago

My sister and I were Durannies from hell ... our walls were covered in magazine photos of the lads. Luckily she loved John Taylor and I loved Simon Le Bon so there were no catfights.
The love has endured over the years ... we bravely submitted to a Robbie Williams concert just to see the Boys from Birmingham shake their middle aged but still hot asses as the support act.
We'd love to see them rule the stage - just like in "Arena" and "Sing blue silver" which we taped off the telly and watched till the tape melted.
kevin1956 4 years ago

It was probably a new moon on Monday when the notorious girls on film made me hungry like a wolf.
Friends of mine said I should not be serious in this ordinary world as I had a view to a kill on planet earth.
Is there something I should know wild boys? No, I'll do it my own way and save a prayer in a new religion.
I don't want your love of crime and passion but just careless memories in the reflex.
Feisty 4 years ago

*Sigh*. I was goig to marry them all... (the fact it was illegal hadnt even entered my mind.. Hell ! it was my fantasty not the legal systems one!!!) I sadly chopped off the head of Roger's wife in there wedding photo and added my own) But John. Oh yes John... He could still have me if he plays his cards right! lol... I remember watching the videos. possibly hundreds of times, and would swoon when band aid came out... remember my heart stopping when they were on RTR and insist the whole house, just stop and swoon with me.. Do I want to go to the concert>>>?? Well yes!!! so lets all sit back and "Say a Prayer" that I get to go... Swoon.
Sarah Lodge 4 years ago

I was in love, probably singing and dancing into my hairbrush in my parents lounge watching it on the wooden TV, without a remote, on Top Of the Pops wearing all black with crumpled hair, a rara skirt and a sultry look on my 13 year old face. Was also plotting how I was going to get to London and marry Simon. And live together forever and have lots of babies. Duran Duran Rules OK!
Mcbride 4 years ago

Girls on Film - By crikey, we were the girls on film. We used to pretend that our lounge room floor was the cat walk and my girlfriends and I would strut our stuff to Simon Le Bons sultry voice. We had the Big Hair, the major panda eyes and the red lips going on. Not to mention the outfits - complete with stillettos. My gosh we were dangerous. Can't believe we used to actually go out looking like that too! My how time has passed so quickly, its not "Girls on Film - 2mins later" anymore. Its "Girls on Film - 25 (and a bit) years later". I remember it like yesterday.
clive greenwood 4 years ago

Remember....it's hard when you look back in time and ask yourself...SELF can you remember RTR on Saturday night and those mullets and the tight jacket that the collar must have been court in the wind,when "Plant Earth"for me was "Girls on Film"click..click,goes the shutter.....The hazes is clearing and YES I don't want to be in "RIO" I want to be in Auckland to have a NIGHT with the "BAD BOYS!!!!!
azpen 4 years ago

I can' remember what I was doing at all, hence I obviously need to go to the concert to be reminded! Cheers
FatCleo 4 years ago

Not only can I remember what I was doing (engaged in front of the tv in my 6pm Saturday night RTR ritual) but I can remember what I was wearing! 12 yrs old, white bermuda shorts, hot pink top and blue jelly shoes. Wild Boys debuted...and from that moment on it was supposed to be Simon LeBon and I down that aisle...unfortunately he married Yasmine I had to settle for queuing up at the local video shop with my sister & cousin every weekend - often in the rain - waiting for whichever 'Duranie' to return the 'Duran Duran' video so we could watch it for the 15th, 16th, 17th....(etc) time!