Promoters Hunta Live have declared that the tour was cancelled because of poor ticket sales, but the band is blaming these same promoters.
Simon le Bon posted this on the band website:
‘Show promoter defaulted on the contract, leaving the band members with no option but to cancel the shows’.
The following was also posted:
‘The four band members (Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor) are extremely sorry to be disappointing their fans, having spent months planning for the tour. This trip would have been Duran Duran’s first in many years and the start of the release campaign around their new studio album, ‘All You Need Is Now’.
‘The worst part of this for us is disappointing our South African fans, who we were really excited to be performing for again. We had planned to debut some of our new record on this run, as well as playing many of the familiar songs from our catalogue. We haven’t been to South Africa for a long time – and were looking forward to reconnecting with the audiences there. Our hope is that we are able to reschedule these dates shortly as part of the World Tour next year.’
This sounds like a flash back from the 80’s, I actually did not know they were still together, but they have an album coming up entitled ‘All You Need Is Now’, produced by Mark Ronson, which will be available exclusively in iTunes on 21 December 2010, whereas the physical album will be release later, on February 2011.