Duran Duran will play new music at the British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park Festival next year.
The group was due to play the event in 2020 before it was scrapped due to the pandemic – but they’re back for 2021, and this time they’re promising new tunes.
Ahead of their show on July 11th, with Chic and Nile Rodgers and Grace Jones as their warm-up acts, frontman Simon Le Bon tells The Sun: “We’re just really hopeful BST goes ahead and we are really looking forward to it.
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“We need to start training. The only upside of having to have postponed it for a year is that we are likely going to be playing new music. And it is very different. We have moved on a lot from the last album.”
It will be the first new music from Duran Duran since their 2015 album Paper Gods, with Simon adding: “Our producer, Erol Alkan, really pushes you out of your comfort zone as a performer and gets you to try different song formats.
“It’s not just what you’ve considered to be music, if that makes sense… It is edgy — for Duran Duran it feels very edgy.”
Tickets for the British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park Festival go on sale December 4th at 10am GMT – get yours here.
