Duran Duran Unveil 2026 UK Arena Tour

Duran Duran have announced a new arena tour, kicking off in the UK later this year.

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The event will mark the band’s first full UK arena tour in three years, and arrives on the heels of them recently sharing the euphoric new single ‘Free To Love’ featuring Nile Rodgers.

Dates kick off on October 15 at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, before continuing with slots at Belfast’s SSE Arena (October 18), Birmingham’s Utilita Arena (23), and Leeds’ First Bank Arena on (24).

That UK tour will be part of a wider autumn run that includes European shows in Oslo, Stockholm, Hamburg, Cologne, Brussels, and Paris, with more to be announced.

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UK headline tour dates also arrive following Simon Le Bon and co, headlining London’s BST Hyde Park on July 5 – the second time they’ve played at the summer series.

Tickets for the arena tour go on sale on Friday (June 5) at 10am, and joining Duran Duran on the tour will be Margate-based psychedelic five-piece Pigeon. Visit here for tickets and find a list of shows below.

Duran Duran’s 2026 UK arena tour dates are:

OCTOBER

15 – Glasgow OVO Hydro

18 – Belfast SSE Arena

20 – Birmingham Utilita Arena

23 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena

24 – Leeds First Bank Arena

As well as live shows, Duran Duran have also began to share a collection of remixes of their latest single, ‘Free To Love’. The gradual release began last month, and has already seen two club-ready reworks from acclaimed dance music heavyweights Horse Meat Disco and DJ White Shadow.

The band – who have sold over 100 million records, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and won Grammy and BRIT Awards – have also revealed that they will not play at Glastonbury unless they are one of the headliners .

“Well, we want to – but not in a disco tent at 3pm, which is what we were offered,” the frontman, Le Bon, said. “We want the right slot… We shouldn’t be below anybody on the bill. So, we’ll hold out because we’re a headline act – that’s all there is to it.”

In 2023, the band expressed similar sentiments when speaking to NME about the chances of them playing Glastonbury . “I’d love to [do it] – we just need to get the right slot, that’s all,” Le Bon said.

“We have had the chance to do it before, but it wasn’t playing the main stage and I think we’d like to be doing that for sure,” he added. “I’m sure we’re in negotiations [with Glastonbury], and if not, we will be.”

Their last live dates in the UK were in October last year, and before then they headlined the closing night of Latitude 2024 and played at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 .

This year is a fallow year for Glastonbury, but it will return in 2027 from June 23 to 27 . Tickets will go on sale in November this year and music fans are required to register before tickets go on sale.

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