About this event
FilmEARLY show 5pm!
A Duran Duran video tribute night is the kind of evening that starts with a low synth line and ends with half the room still singing the last chorus under their breath on the way home. It is not a concert and it is not a lecture. It is a room full of people who already know the words, gathered to watch the band that turned the early 1980s into a sequence of sharp suits, yacht decks, and perfectly timed choruses.
Duran Duran arrived as the polished face of the New Romantic moment and stayed long enough to outlast the trend. From the Birmingham clubs to the global video channels, Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, and Andy Taylor built a catalogue that still works on a big screen: “Girls on Film,” “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio,” “The Reflex,” “A View to a Kill,”…