Duran Duran has announced the release of a new live concert film, Secret Oktober, available exclusively on StagePlayer+ starting Friday, October 25, just in time for Halloween 2024.
Secret Oktober presents the origin story of Duran Duran’s latest studio album, Danse Macabre.
The concert film was recorded at the Encore Theatre at Wynn, Las Vegas, on October 31, 2022. Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor, in full costume, took to the stage complete with 20-foot high skeletons, tombstones, cobwebs, coffins, and ghouls.
The concert film includes rarities and special covers – Duran Duran’s first live performance of ‘Secret Oktober’ since 2011, their first of ‘Love Voodoo’ since 2017, and first of ‘Nightboat’ since 2005. Covers of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ‘Spellbound’, Cerrone’s ‘Supernature’ and The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ were also debuted.
Secret Oktober is available to watch via the StagePlayer+ app on Amazon Fire TV, LG, Samsung, Netgem (ISP partners include TalkTalk, Community Fibre, and others), casting to Apple TV and Roku devices, or via browser here.
A digital download of new album Danse Macabre De Luxe comes free to all fans who purchase the film. The Secret Oktober film is directed by Gavin Elder, who has worked and collaborated with Duran Duran for more than 20 years, most recently on the band’s globally released docu-concert film, A Hollywood High.
“October 31st, 2022 is where our strange journey into the world of Halloween began,” said Duran Duran founding member and keyboardist Nick Rhodes. “It was dark, we didn’t have a torch, and we somehow wandered down a pathway that led us to some surprising places… First was this show in Vegas, where we reimagined some of our own songs and played them alongside appropriately themed cover versions by some of our favorite artists. Our longtime collaborator Gavin Elder filmed the performance and managed to capture the spirit of the project (pun intended), with all the madness, dark humor and energy it has created.Often spontaneous ideas turn out to be the most special. Last year we released the Danse Macabre studio album and now we continue the celebration this year by streaming the Secret Oktober film, on the days leading up to our Halloween show at Madison Square Garden.”
On October 31, Duran Duran celebrates All Hallows’ Eve at with a live show at Madison Square Garden in New York City.