Duran Duran stepped-in for Stevie Nicks, when she cancelled her appearance at the Austin City Limits Festival in October, 2021. Unfortunately for me, I wasn’t prepared for the late-breaking news and on the back of a long vacation and other scheduling\/financial commitments, and after a brief and painful internal struggle, I decided I wouldn’t be able to see them. They were to play both weekends of the festival and then announced that they would be doing an Austin City Limits Live taping! Unfortunately (again), tickets would not be available to the public and would only be made available to regular donors of KLRU, our PBS affiliate. I hit up my network and did manage to find tickets, but they belonged to someone who “had their posters on (her) wall.” Sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first weekend of ACL came and went and then the ACL taping came and went. I was reading tweets from Simon as he walked along Town Lake. I was distraught. How could Duran Duran literally be living and performing in my home town for a whole week and I could not a find a way to see them? It was then that merciful fate intervened and a friend found two free wristbands that I could use to see them on the last weekend of ACL. I grabbed Erin and off we went!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The show was amazing! The cracking opening show intro is rumored to be an extra track (“Velvet Newton”) off of the upcoming album and it immediately stirred the fans and set the energetic tone of the show. Watch it here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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