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Duke Special
May 23rd, 2006 at 20:10
I went to see a band on Sunday evening, with JD, at his suggestion. Neither of us had heard of the band, I think we just wanted to see what the venue was like, as well as pay over the odds for CocaCola (£1.70 for approximately 330ml).
The band were Duke Special- who at time of writing, I keep typo-ing to “Duck Special”. It’s hard to describe what their music was like because not only am I deaf, but I have a vocabulary of adjectives that only extends as far as “alright” and “loud”. There was a bloke on a piano and a bloke on a massive drum. For some songs, the latter changed to playing a cheese-grater and whisk. Seriously. I think it’s their gimmick- like how Rage Against the Machine have their politics and Gary Glitter has his paedophilia.
I can’t remember any of the songs they did, and I’d be “at a loss” if you asked me to whistle one of their tunes right now (and presumably invoiced me for doing so). I wouldn’t say that they’re really my sort of thing- they were more “Feelings and that” than “Fuck you, I won’t do what you told me”. This said, the support act, who didn’t seem to actually play the guitar that was hanging from his neck, came perilously close to a Rage classic, opening one song with “You’ve got to know your enemy”- unfortunately, this wasn’t followed up by posing the question “What? Land of the free?”.
The support was really quite odd though. It was just one bloke on his own, and a tape player. We could hear guitars and voices coming from the stage, but he was either standing there pretending to pick at the strings, or singing something every few seconds, with no visible link between when he chose to sing and the tune on the tape. He may as well have stood on the stage trying to fit his entire hand into his mouth- he didn’t need to sing or strum, and that would have been more impressive, and given the audience something more to look at.
All in all: “not bad” out of ten. Hopefully I’ll be going to the same place again on the 30th, when four punk bands are on.
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