Duran Duran Announce UK Shows With Nile Rodgers & Chic
Duran Duran have announced two outdoor UK shows for summer 2025 with special guests Nile Rodgers & Chic.
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The first of the newly announced gigs that the celebrated hitmakers will play will be at Powderham Castle on 3 July, as they take to the stage as headliners of the Powderham Presents concert series.
The latter will be held at the City Racecourse in Chelmsford two days later (5 July) as part of the Chelmsford City Live series.
Tickets for both shows go on sale here this Friday (6 December) at 9am.
In other news, the band are set to play a handful shows in the US soon: these kick off with two nights at the Fontainebleau venue in Las Vegas on 29 and 30 December, and continue on the New Year with two nights at the Yaamava Theater in Highland California on 2 and 3 January.
The dates come after they released their Halloween-themed album Danse Macabre last year –which saw them cover Billie Eilish, Talking Heads and more – and went on to share an expanded version over Halloween 2024.
Nile Rodgers recently confirmed, by accident, that he and Chic will be performing at Glastonbury 2025.
Reflecting on how Rod Stewart was announced for next year’s Legend Slot last week (26 November), Rodgers said at the Rolling Stone Awards that he was looking forward to taking to the stage afterwards.
“We’re going to have a blast because we follow him directly. Rod and I have been friends for 80 gazillion years, so that means he’s gonna play tricks on me,” he said. After being notified by someone that his performance hadn’t been announced, to which he laughed and responded: “Am I not supposed to give that away? I always say too much.”
Shortly before then, it was confirmed that he – along with Massive Attack and IDLES – will play a series of gigs at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena in honour of the city being the world’s first ‘UN Accelerator City’ for climate change.