So there's nothing to tell you yet as it's 8:58am and we're sitting in the scarily trendy The Standard hotel, in our pants, watching The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner on TV (it's true, American telly is better than ours).

But, if you come back here at 2am (UK time) or, more realistically, when you wake up tomorrow. We'll give you a canapé by canapé acount of the proceedings.

And, and, and...

You can watch the entire David Lynch imagined Duran Duran gig right here for free by clicking anywhere on this overly long sentence. Or by going here: www.youtube.com/DuranDuranVEVO It's the bloody future!

Here's what David has to say about it:

"I am very excited about this opportunity to experiment with the band, Duran Duran, at the Mayan Theater on March 23rd. The idea is to try and create on the fly, layers of images permeating Duran Duran on the stage. A world of experimentation and hopefully some happy accidents."

Watch this space.

Duran Duran unstaged

18:55 So the actual David Lynch just came on stage and did that thing of talking to the audience and hoping they have a good time, like they used to do if you ever went to Top of the Pops. Amazing. Then he quoted Ringo Starr: "Peace & Love". Also amazing.

His pre-show visuals are proper early lo-fi Lynch. All black & white, over-exposed and jerky, like in The Grandmother. This is basically a Duran Duran gig and a new David Lynch creation all at once. Which is quite exciting really.

It rained today in L.A.. People were running in terror from what the news is calling "The Great Sky Leak".

19:03 Duran Duran are on. But if you're not watching the live stream, do it now: http://www.youtube.com/DuranDuranVEVO. Total David Lynch headfuck amazingness.

19:11 Gerard Way out of My Chemical Romance is onstage "doing" Planet Earth. Apparently he was very nervous the day before and smoking a lot of fags. His hair is red and his tie is skinny, he looks like Nick Rhodes did when we were little - New Romantic vindication at last. The crowd are going mental.

#AmexDuranDuran fact: The Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles was built in the 8th century and is the only Mayan building still used for its original purpose.

19:20 Friends Of Mine is fast becoming Duran Duran's Popscene, isn't it? In the no-one-paid-it-much-attention-at-the-time-but-now-it-sounds-like-a-hit sense. Yes.

19:23 Beth Ditto is quite literally on stage "doing" Notorious. Earlier we watched Simon teaching her the harmonies. It was a moment. For those of you not watching the live stream, we'd say she's wearing a hounds tooth check dress. But we know shit all about fashion so we're probably wrong.

19:34 WEIRD LYNCH WOLF on the live stream for Hungry Like The Wolf! We repeat WEIRD LYNCH WOLF.

Oh and Marilyn Manson is in the VIP area. He's smiling and wearing a cap.

Here's where we are. There's a leaf in the way but you get the idea: Mayan Theatre

19:44 John Taylor attempted a joke about Tescos in Redditch. Not the right crowd. Simon's joke: "How do you make a dog drink?" "Put it in the blender."

You had to be here.

Did we mention Mark Ronson had been on? Well he has. He's responsible for the new album being actually bloody good. And if you don't believe us watch the live stream now as they're playing Leave The Light On which is right up there with the best Duran slow sad ones. Yes it is.

19:50 Marilyn Manson is singing along to Ordinary World. We keep remembering the time he tried to make Matt Edmondson look at a lady's muff.

19:55 Kelis has a lightsaber for a mic-stand. Wonder if that's contractual? All the visuals at the back of the stage have gone a bit "Leigh Bowery frightening". You know the kind of frightening we mean. The live stream has lots of scary David Lynch sculpted heads. We'd like one.

Fans were queuing from 9am this morning just to be at the front of this gig. And then it bastard rained. Look, here they are in the rain:

Duran Duran fans

20:10 It's quite tempting just to keep writing song titles and going "Ooh that was good". But they really are the bollocks right now. We're not sure what happened, and we were as sceptical as the next man. But if you've ever felt the slightest tremblings for Careless Memories then you owe it to yourselves to see this tour when it "hits" the UK. Duran Duran are the New Romantic Rolling Stones and this is their Gimme Shelter.

20:18 Simon caught his tambourine this time. The curse of their ITV One Night Only tambourine accident is lifted.

20:20 Our VIP pagoda is suddenly filled with smartly dressed people from Amex going nuts for Rio. Wondering if they'll write off our balance, once they've had a few.

20:25 Just spotted someone with even crazier hair than Simon Price. Everything's bigger in America.

It's encore time already. It's flown by and we've completely disprove jetlag, It doesn't exist.

Kelis and her lightsabre are back, to sing Come Undone (how did we not know this was one of the good ones too?), accompanied by the delightful image of sausages on a barbecue. Thanks David.

The Lynch involvement is gonna cause problems for Amex when they try and do more Unstaged gigs. We hear Spandau Ballet have already demanded Michael Winner direct theirs...

Actual truefact: A beloved ex-girlfriend of ours once shared a taxi journey with Stephen Tin Tin Duffy and spent it drunkenly shouting: "You were not in fucking Duran Duran!" at him, or words to that affect. We had to break it to her the next day that he was in fact a founding member. And now he's part of the record label that's put out Duran Duran's new album All You Need Is Now. What a lovely story.

20:33 Bond medley! Mark Ronson/ Dom Brown* guitar duel.

*New bloke.

We're gonna stop typing now so we can wave our arms about to View To A Kill and Girls On Film. Thank you for reading this, if you did. Night night.