It’s all about Saturday night! My convention preparations lately have been all about Saturday night and the same is true with the rest of the convention committee! There have been conversations with our DJ, and with the management over at Late Bar, decorations have been discussed, menus have been looked at and more! On the last day of regularly priced registration, I thought it might be good to catch everyone up with some of the finer details then get some input!
As you all know our evening officially starts at Harry Carey’s for our dinner/dance/banquet at 7 pm. This, of course, is after everyone who is staying at the Amalfi Hotel enjoys the manager’s reception with their open bar and free appetizers. The dinner/dance/banquet like the rest of the convention is focused on the theme of the “music between us”. This means that we are encouraging everyone, every attendee, to come dressed in a way that represents a song, a lyric. It could be one’s favorite song or a favorite lyric or a title. I have seen and heard a lot of songs being mentioned as one’s influence for outfits, including Late Bar, Planet Earth, Union of the Snake, Rio, Leopard and more. I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! I have most of my outfit chosen. I just need to buy and fix a prop. So excited! This banquet, of course, also will include a full meal and the convention committee has basically chosen the menu for the night and we promise that it will be a meal worth remembering. It will have something for everyone, including vegetarians like me! Music and dancing will also be a central feature, for sure! The musical playlist has been chosen and the fan focused slideshow has been worked on but we need everyone’s input on the video playlist for the night. Yes, you all read that right. Videos will be played as the dance portion kicks into full gear! After all, we all know that Duran is very visual and most of us definitely appreciate the visual! The banquet time is limited so choices will need to be made. We would love to have the attendees choose the videos. Now, to help everyone make their choices, let’s list all of Duran videos here:
Planet Earth
Friends of Mine
Girls on Film
Careless Memories
Nightboat
My Own Way
Hungry like the Wolf
Rio
Lonely in Your Nightmare
Save a Prayer
The Chauffeur
Is There Something I Should Know?
Union of the Snake
New Moon on Monday
The Reflex
Wild Boys
A View to a Kill
Notorious
Skin Trade
Meet el Presidente
I Don’t Want Your Love
All She Wants Is
Do You Believe in Shame?
Burning the Ground
Violence of Summer
Serious
Ordinary World
Come Undone
Too Much Information
Breath After Breath
Femme Fatale
White Lines
Perfect Day
Out of my Mind
Electric Barbarella
Someone Else Not Me
Sunrise
What Happens Tomorrow
Falling Down
All You Need Is Now
Girl Panic
Of course, there are also side project videos:
Power Station:
Some Like It Hot
Get It On
Communication
She Can Rock It
Arcadia:
Election Day
The Promise
Goodbye Is Forever
The Flame
Missing
Say the Word
So, the question remains, convention attendees, which videos do you want to see most that night at the banquet?!
The banquet just gets the party started, which is why we have arranged to have the group head over to Late Bar for their Planet Earth, or 80s/New Wave night. I had a great conference call with the club yesterday and they are SUPER excited to host us! We talked about lots of details related to the night. First, they have promised us an area in the club and that they would be playing Duran “blocks” that night just for us. They, too, will show videos so that we can “see the boys on the big screen”! If that wasn’t enough, I hear that Duran posters might be found around the club as well, definitely helping us to celebrate being Duranies! I also mentioned that one really cool thing about the Durham meetup we had in August of last year was the Duran related drink specials. They really loved that idea and I can’t wait to see what they come up with! With all of this, it will definitely be an all night party that night! Let’s just hope that everyone will be able to get out of bed on Sunday morning for our goodbye and group picture! 7 weeks from today!!! I can’t wait!!!
-A
Really trying not to say “play all of them!!!!”, so here's my list (it is long, sorry)
Duran-Planet Earth, Careless, My Own Way, Save A Prayer, The Chauffeur, Reflex, New Moon, AVTAK, ITSISK, Skin Trade, Notorious, IDWYL, Serious, Violence, OW, CU, Too Much Info, White, Out Mind,Electric, Someone Else, Falling , & AYNIN
Other – Some Like it Hot, Election, The Flame, Missing, I Do What I Do (rogue entry)
Sorry it is so long…I think I need to go have a YouTube DD marathon.
Thank you! I really appreciate it!
-A
OK, girls, here's my list, but honestly…how can you go wrong? You can't!
Planet Earth, Careless Memories, My Own Way, Save A Prayer, Rio, Girls on Film, New Moon on Monday (although I cringe at the dancing with sparklers), ITSISK, Reflex, Notorious, Serious, Ordinary World, Come Undone, White LInes, Sunrise, Falling Down, AYNIN, Girl Panic.
And can we get a two-minute loop of JT saying, “hiya” at the beginning of the Nightboat video? I'm asking for a friend. 🙂
I'm cool with the side project stuff too, but I'm way more of a Power Station girl than Arcadia.
It is in these moments when I wish that Dom had his own videos. 😀 Alas…
I'll take Election Day, Violence of Summer (nobody mentioned it that I saw yet)…and AYNIN for sure. Oh, and Sunrise too.
Honestly, any of them are fine… what's kind of sad is that their best songs have no video. Maybe we need to ask for a few audio-only blocks of tunes or something…he could play them in between the DVD's you're setting up? I'm just thinking about Late Bar, Secret Oktober and songs like that. *sigh*
Don't get 'em live…don't get 'em in video…. I should slap that band sometimes. LOL 😀
Thanks, Karen!
-A
i won't be there but you have to play Election Day. you just have to. you know you have to.
don't argue with me.
We will. I will take one for the team on this. -R