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'Exhaustion' was never really satisfactorily
explained. It sounded a bit dodgy to me, but what
do I know?
After paying ?15/$25 or whatever to see them on
Pop Trash and Medazzaland (aka, the lamely-named
'Latest and Greatest') tours, the exponential jump
to $50/$90 a ticket is quite crap really. If they
have signed a 5-album deal, then goodness knows
how much we'll be paying in say, six years time,
when the 5th new album comes along.
Invent a time machine, I say. Let's all go and
watch them circa' all those cool videos that
are downloadable from http://www.duranduran.no/
The live via-satellite Japanese shows, circa'
'Big Thing' look great - Le Bon, bless him,
going through his leather-long hair-and-Hutchence
phase. 'Big Thing' was terribly compiled, and every
song jarred with its neighbour, but it's still,
probably, their most under-rated album.
D.
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They're playing 8-10k seaters out there?
To be honest, I'd be surprised to see them fill Hammy O or Brixton Academy these days. Your 'mid-sized' is our Wembley.
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actually they are playing some venues that are even larger. they are playing a couple 20,000 seaters. this site here will give you the seating capacity of all their shows.
http://www.lizardkingduran.com/tour.htm
and i was close, the arena here holds 12,000. we have an amphitheater here that seats 20,000+. the only time it ever sells out though is for festivals like ozzfest or the warped tour kinda thing. britney spears might have sold it out as well but with the restraining order and all, i couldn't make it to that show. in fact i couldn't come within 200 feet of her.
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Haha, nice.
Hats off to Duran then. Had no idea they could still fill places like that.
