Duran Duran

Duran Duran land at Liverpool Arena in Liverpool on 23 October 2026 with a sound that still pivots between synth-pop sheen, rock guitars and dancefloor pulse. Formed in late-70s Birmingham, the group shaped the New Romantic wave with a core built around Simon Le Bon’s voice, Nick Rhodes’s keyboards, John Taylor’s bass and Roger Taylor’s drums. Their early run — Duran Duran, Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger — set the template, before a turn toward funk and pop on Notorious and Big Thing, and a 90s reset with The Wedding Album. Through the late 90s and 2000s, the band leaned further into electronics and studio craft on Medazzaland and Pop Trash, then regrouped for Astronaut and continued to rotate the mix on Red Carpet Massacre, All You Need Is Now, Paper Gods, Future Past and Danse Macabre. On stage, the catalog stretches across decades: crisp grooves, melodic hooks and synth textures that move from bright to darker shades, carried by a rhythm section with bite and a taste for visuals that has always fed their live energy.