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Duran Duran to Perform Virtual Gigs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-varying-degrees-of-'live' dept.

Sir Haxalot writes "The British band Duran Duran is to create a virtual island within the online world of Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts." From the article: "Three-dimensional versions of the band members - called Avatars - have been commissioned and will be revealed in September. The band hopes to perform their first virtual concert in the coming months. Rhodes added: 'We are hoping to give the crowd that come to the virtual concert a real immersive experience, so they can interact with us and react while we are stage.'"

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  1. Re:Kudos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Also, Duran Duran were the first band to sell a song for download.

  2. Publicity by Thanatos69 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are they just doing this to create publicity for themselves or is SL paying them to do this to bring in the older crowd?

  3. Re:Hmm by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you actually listened to their early stuff? (I'd guess the answer is 'no') They get a lot of crap for their later stuff, but they had some great songs early on. Rio was a great album (in fact, I'd say every song is good), and their early hit Planet Earth was really good, too.

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  4. Re:Hmm by apflwr3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does Second Life take place in 1983?

    Seriously - Duran Duran has virtually sucked for virtually 25 years.

    I know you're trolling, but that does beg the question-- will the Duran Duran avatars be modelled after their 40-50 year old bodies today (complete with wrinkles) or will they be the pretty-boys from the Rio video? Not that I particularly care, of course... Ahem...

    This kind of this could literally give a "Second Life" to musical acts whose careers ended when their looks started to go.