Update: Duran Duran’s show Wed 8/29 at Ravinia is canceled; Nick Rhodes is ill.
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I wanted to ask you about inspiration, and start off with a personal story. So a few years ago, way before [the 2010 Duran Duran single] “Girl Panic!,” I started a female Duran Duran cover band, and it was a lot of fun. I ended up turning the show into this huge fund-raiser, and I’ve been doing it annually. So thank you for the inspiration, for causing this cover band to raise all this money for this women’s homeless shelter. Thank you, I’m glad to hear that.
And I have another quick story. My friend Marie Walz has a blog called “Nick Rhodes. Outer Space. Waffle.” And I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but she puts together these classic designs of you in beautiful outer-space sceneries, with different waffles, and it’s quite lovely. So this is a way that your inspiration is kind of filtering through to our reality.
Yeah. Is there anything personally that you’d like to venture off to? Oh, lots of things. I still would like to write and direct a film, which is something I’ve been talking about for probably a quarter century at this point.
Right, right. It’s kind of a really wonderful dilemma to have. It is a lovely dilemma. I’m certainly not complaining, I’m just purely illustrating.
