Duran Duran have added a date in Seoul, Korea, playing at the Olympic Hall on March 12, 2012. For fan community pre-sale details for the Seoul show ONLY please email duran duran VIP fan community customer service following the contact/links at http://duranduranmusic.com

As a Middle East exclusive DONE Events proudly announces a one-off Dubai performance by Duran Duran on March 8, 2012. The band will play at Sevens Stadium in Dubai.

Duran Duran concert tickets will go on sale on Sunday 8 January 2012 at 9am local UAE time. For fan community pre-sale details, please email duran duran VIP fan community customer service following the contact/links at www.duranduranmusic.com.

We are excited to announce that the band will be returning to Australia as part of the All You Need is Now world tour. The tour will comprise a run of spectacular arena shows, as well as two unforgettable outdoor concerts at Sandalford Estate (Swan Valley, Perth) and Tempus Two Winery (Hunter Valley, NSW). Last in Australia in 2008, DURAN DURAN will showcase songs from their critically acclaimed new album on the March dates, alongside all of the unforgettable hits from across their thirty-year career.

DD VIP community members will have first access to tickets and VIP packages. The pre-sale begins on Thursday December 8th at 10am local market time.

There will be two offerings for this tour:

1) A regular pre-sale ticket

2) Duran Duran Enhanced Ticket Bundle - $135 AUD plus Ticket Price
-1 Premium Reserved Ticket
-1 Limited Edition Duran Duran Tote Bag
-1 Vintage-style Duran Duran T-Shirt
-1 Duran Duran Photo Book
-1 Commemorative VIP Tour Laminate

To access the pre-sale members should log in and go to the following link: http://tixx1.artistarena.com/duranduran

Here are the tour dates:

BRISBANE
Saturday 17 March 2012
Brisbane Entertainment Centre

ADELAIDE
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Adelaide Entertainment Centre

MELBOURNE
Monday 19 March 2012
Rod Laver Arena

PERTH
Saturday 24 March 2012
Sandalford Estate, Swan Valley

SYDNEY
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Sydney Entertainment Centre

HUNTER VALLEY
Saturday 31 March 2012
Tempus Two Winery, Hunter Valley


Important note: New dates in Asia and beyond will be announced soon but not all updates will be sent via email. Please make sure you regularly check the news section (under the band photo) on the home page of www.duranduranmusic.com or any of Duran Duran's official websites for updates.

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Duran Duran are hitting the road in support of their new album ‘ALL YOU NEED IS NOW’, which is set for release on March21/March 22! Our community members will have early access to pre-sale tickets for these shows, before they are made available to the general public, and the opportunity to purchase a limited number of special VIP member-only packages!

Here Right Now

Today, on stage at DLD in Munich, John Taylor announced Here Right Now, a data visualization project inspired by “All You Need Is Now.”

Here Right Now is a partnership between Duran Duran and San Francisco-based Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) that aims to display people’s 'Now' from around the world. A series of word prompts — the first set inspired by words used in “All You Need Is Now” — runs along the top of the screen, inviting users to submit their vision of the word. Contribute to the project by uploading a photo of your Now on the globe. Here's how:

To share a photo of your Now:
1. Visit hererightnow.org
2. Enter the site and choose a word prompt from the top of the screen.
3. Choose a photo that represents your Now. Example: your View right Now; Sunrise right Now
4. Upload the image. Add your location, name, and email. (All fields are required.)
5. Submit your photo to become part of the view from around the world.

To browse others’ now:
1. Visit hererightnow.org
2. Click on an image on the globe, or browse by category using the words on the top of the page.

For a video demonstration, click here.

As a band, Duran Duran share their creativity with you. Now, they want to see your imagery in return. Show us your 'Now' and browse images posted from others across the globe. We can’t wait to see the results!

Duran Duran and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Launch HereRightNow.Org: An Experiment to Visualize Our World

Band encourages people around the globe to participate in their mission to promote cultural literacy

Duran Duran and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), a civic-minded nonprofit focused on building an appreciation for and participation in digital culture, have teamed up to create the “Here Right Now” experiment – an online data visualization project inspired by Duran Duran’s new album entitled “ALL YOU NEED IS NOW.”

The band will invite fans to log on to HereRightNow.Org and upload images in response to weekly single-word prompts, chosen directly by the band members. Their goal is to visualize, photo by photo, the different perceptions of common words, ideas, and events from around the world. The project begins by asking fans to share their interpretations of prompts like “Sunrise”, “Information”, and “Red.” The result is a series of narrative postcards, each representing a unique interpretation of a simple, shared idea or experience. The postcards can then be accessed on the site by anyone in the world, and will include information about who shared the image and where they’re located. Fans will also be able to share their postcards on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter using the hashtag #rightnow.

Gray Area Researchers Gabriel Dunne and Nik Hanselmann designed the project by combining location data and user-submitted art, giving meaning to simple, but engaging ideas.

Duran Duran keyboardist, Nick Rhodes, said of the project “The idea evolved from some discussions we’d been having within the band about how to visually represent what different people around the world thought about certain things at different times – what they needed, what they wanted and how that changed over time. So we started looking for a team to help us bring the project to life and were introduced to GAFFTA – who were the perfect partner. We would love to think that perhaps some patterns will emerge, that will tell us something about what people are thinking and feeling – but part of the appeal of this project is that we have no idea what will come out of it. What we do know, however, is that it will ultimately become a shared, global initiative that will be constantly evolving, and that in itself is very exciting to us."

"When Duran Duran approached us to create a project that allowed fans to share visual depictions of what they were thinking or feeling, we knew we were about to embark on something special. A single image or photograph can communicate an incredible amount without the use of words, and in addition to geographic location, images have the potential to reveal themes on a global level," said Gabriel Dunne, project lead. "As this collection grows, we will also be encouraging coders to create their own visualizations with the projects public API."

Nick checks in from Klosters in a "room with a view"!

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and you can watch the full video...

HERE!