2005 PROGRAMME - Music 1624

Duke Special has recruited a small collective of musicians, including drummer and percussionist Chip Bailey, R?a Curran on trumpet and harmonium and Ben Hales on guitar and backing vocals, along with his own bruised romanticism and soft Northern tinged vocals, to bring the Duke's antique songs of confused love to life. Duke Special has just released his debut album Adventures in Gramophone. Using cheese graters, wardrobe doors, pianos, harps, brass, strings and an old gramophone to record the twelve-track debut, Adventures in Gramophone is truly a musical spectacular.