If you were following Duran Duran’s social media last night, you would have seen a little announcement that they would be performing at the White Knights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday with more details to follow!!! (From what I could find online, this is an arts festival.) Normally, an announcement like that might prompt me to criticize the very short notice, but these days have seen such little Duran news that I just can’t go there. I won’t go there. Instead, of course, I’m THRILLED to see that they will be playing LIVE somewhere, anywhere. Then, of course, I wonder if this isn’t the first drop of news before the flood of excitement of more news, more shows, etc. Could it be the drought is ending?!? With the incredibly good week I am having, I believe it is possible!!
As soon as I saw the news, I emailed the other half of this little blog and immediately we discussed how there were signs. Many of them.
*John’s instagram picture with the caption: “Visa me!”
*Dom’s canceling of his gig due to scheduling conflicts
*Anna’s update that she would be working with Duran again soon
*Even the updated official website
Did we miss them completely? Are we that out of practice??? I know that it has been awhile but still!?! We know better. We know how to do this. We are experts, right?
While I’m sure that we are slightly rusty, could it also be that we noticed each of the signs, but didn’t put them together? I know that we did see them. On Wednesday, we talked about John’s picture and commented about Anna’s updates. I know that both of us saw Dom’s statements about having to cancel his show and the update to dd.com. Why didn’t we put them together? Could it be that we didn’t want to have hope and be disappointed? Could it be that we had Duran no longer consumed the same level of our thoughts? A little bit of all of the above? Possible.
Here is what I know. We will be better from now on. Our Duranie sense has been turned back on. We will be paying attention from here on out. We will be looking for signs and putting them together. Oh, yes, Duran Duran, we will watching your every move.
-A
First of all, I’ll go there – I wonder why they didn’t announce this earlier!! I’m not saying I’d have traveled to Russia, but just to get press and be in the news I’d have thought maybe??? Perhaps it all just came together at the last second. Maybe they just realized they needed to be in front of their people (the fans) and since it was all last minute this is the festival that worked out. I have no idea. If someone cares to enlighten…please feel free.
Secondly, as I told Amanda last night, it was the oddest thing because when Dom announced he was canceling his show, I thought to myself – “Huh. I wonder if DD is doing a private gig or something, because it’s really the only time he cancels and gives the reason as ‘scheduling conflicts'”. But I let the thought escape me because well, as John had said – they were’t really interested in getting on the road at all this year. But then Anna mentioned working with them, and then of course as you said, John did that oddly innocuous “Visa me” Instagram that was tweeted out. You’d think they were trying to wake us up without really waking us up. Huh. Imagine that.
I guess it won’t be enough just to do the date in history…and just as I’m leaving to go on vacation too. Their timing is ridiculous. Oh well, I leave the blog in good hands come next Wednesday…she’ll do what must be done! -R
When I read of Dom cancelling for conflicting schedule: I thought something like “Corporate gigs, they got to pay the staggering bill of the Studio.”
Maybe they really did one “secret” private gig somewhere in the UK, while waiting to get the confirmation of their “more public” live perfomance in Russia.
Who can tell??? Dom and the guys are getting able to “tease” us with and on their social media.