We went to see a couple of bands last night, at an outdoor amphitheater in the office park where I work. I can see parts of it poking out above the tops of the trees from my window here. The stage itself is on the edge of a small lake, surrounded by tall pine trees. Idyllic.

The first band was from Leeds, UK (as the singer with the big black cast on his broken foot kept telling us), and called themselves "Your Vegas". They were OK. For some reason, I kept thinking "I really liked old U2 better".

The second band was, um, Duran Duran. Still at it, after 28 years. But, they were surprisingly good, and were neither bloated nor sluggish as I imagined they'd be (ahem). Four of the original five members were there - original guitar player Andy Taylor is out of the band, again - and that's one original member more than when I saw them back in '89. Maybe I can catch them all together on their 2027 tour! They played quite a few of their innumerable hits from the 80s of course; and they played a bunch of stuff from their new album (which didn't do much for me, in the same way most modern dancy pop music doesn't do much for me). To me, they sometimes seemed a slight bit bored, and the setting - a sylvan open-air theater by a lake - felt like an odd place to listen to really loud dance music, but it was still a good time.

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