{"id":370839,"date":"2026-03-29T04:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370839\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:23:27","slug":"duran-duran-announced-as-latest-headliner-for-bst-hyde-park-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/370839\/","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran announced as latest headliner for BST Hyde Park festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eighties pop band Duran Duran have been announced as the latest act to headline the BST Hyde Park series of day festivals.<\/p>\n

The group, fronted by Simon Le Bon, will take to the stage in the London park on Sunday July 5, supported by 2000s pop group Scissor Sisters.<\/p>\n

Duran Duran join previously announced headliners such as Mumford And Sons, Lewis Capaldi and Pitbull on the bill.<\/p>\n

\"ScissorScissor Sisters will support Duran Duran (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n

The band \u2013 completed in their current line-up by keyboard player Nick Rhodes, bass player John Taylor and drummer Roger Taylor \u2013 are best known for hits such as Rio, Hungry Like The Wolf and A View To A Kill, the theme to the 1985 James Bond film.<\/p>\n

They have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, scoring two UK number one singles and a number one album, and were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2022.<\/p>\n

Scissor Sisters reunited for a string of shows in 2025 to mark the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, and are best known for songs such as Laura, Take Your Mama and I Don\u2019t Feel Like Dancin\u2019.<\/p>\n

Jim King, chief executive of the festival organisers AEG Presents UK, said: \u201cDuran Duran have long defined the very best of British music, conquering charts around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir return to BST Hyde Park, joined by the incredible Scissor Sisters, promises a night of iconic, era\u2011defining hits and one of the standout moments for fans this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for the gig go on general sale on Wednesday April 1 at 10am on the BST Hyde Park website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighties pop band Duran Duran have been announced as the latest act to headline the BST Hyde Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-370839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}