New Wave legends Duran Duran today announced that they’ll follow their just-announced appearance at California’s massive Coachella festival with an 11-date U.K. arena tour in May and early June — a trek the band’s billing as “the start of a world tour that will last well into 2012.”
Promising to showcase material from All You Need Is Now — which was released digitally in December and will arrive in expanded CD form sometime in the next few months — and “classic hits from across their 30-year career,” the band will open its U.K tour on May 18 in Newcastle and wrap up on June 4 in Sheffield (see full dates below).
So far, the only other tour dates Duran Duran has announced — following an aborted attempt to play South Africa last December — include a set at the NFL Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam on Feb. 3 in Grand Prairie, Texas, plus the Coachella performance on April 17.
See Duran Duran’s tour dates after the jump…
Duran Duran tour dates:
Feb. 3: NFL Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam, Verizon Theater, Grand Prairie, TX, USA
April 17: Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA, USA
May 18: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, UK
May 29: SECC, Glasgow, UK
May 21: LG Arena, Birmingham, UK
May 22: Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, UK
May 23: Echo Arena, Liverpool, UK
May 28: The O2 Arena, London, UK
May 30: Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
May 31: International Centre, Bournemouth, UK
June 1: International Arena, Cardiff, UK
June 3: MEN Arena, Manchester, UK
June 4: Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, UK
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Coachella 2011: Duran Duran, Wire, Suede and reunited Big Audio Dynamite
- Video: Duran Duran’s ‘All You Need Is Now’
- Video: Duran Duran performs ‘All You Need Is Now’ on U.K.’s ‘Loose Women’
- Duran Duran cancels South African tour, citing promoter problems
- Duran Duran’s ‘All You Need Is Now’ out on iTunes in December, CD in February
- Audio: Premiere of Duran Duran’s ‘Being Followed,’ off ‘All You Need Is Now’
