- RT @iamlonewolf: Myself and Jon Foulger (@duelsmusic) are conducting a lecture on Songwriting and Production today at Leeds Met chatting ... 18/October/11
- Band night out http://t.co/QWy5WzOR 23/September/11
- RT @mikedoyley: @duelsmusic What's this all about then guys, you've got me all excited now ! 24/July/11
- RT @nickrowan27: There's something occurring, but I know not what it is. RT @duelsmusic "Immersion imminent" 16/July/11
- RT @fuzzyfoster: @duelsmusic Yay for instant hot water! 16/July/11
- Bart Pettman Leeds-based photographer responsible for some fantastic Duels photos
- Honour Before Glory Whiskas’ new band who have just released their debut album
- James Kenosha Our very own James’ website about his music production projects
- Lazy Dane A freelance illustrator based in Leeds, producing work that brings together a love of Maths and minimal design
- Lone Wolf Paul Marshall likes to write about things like murder and death. He is often joined by Duels people on stage.
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Oh you Pretty Things
Greetings dear reader, what’s new? Well, The Pretty Things are performing at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club on 23rd September. They are, of course, those of seminal 1968 concept album “S.F. Sorrow” fame. Recorded at Abbey Road a number of months after Sgt. Pepper’s.. and released in a week that saw The Stones, Beatles and Kinks [...]
Reading between the lines
Hello Reader, Drowned In Sound have now added the two-part iLiKELiTERATURE features. Part 1 features the mix-tape put together by Dave iLT which features our very own “The Wild Hunt”. There’s some fantastic tracks on the compilation, with commentary from the artists responsible. Part 2 features an interview with the songwriters who contributed to the [...]
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Whiskas in the mix….
Hello reader, You might want to check out Drowned In Sound’s Leeds Day features. There’s a couple of contributions from Mr. Whiskas, including his mix-tape which we feature on (we also have a track on Dave iLiKETRAiNS’ mix-tape “iLiKELiTERATURE” I believe). It’s great to hear some blasts from the now-considerable past on there, and there’s [...]
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Howling at the moon
Hello reader, Just a little note to point you at a blog written by Lone Wolf, and his musings on our very own “The Barbarians Move In”. Very kind words from him for which we are thankful. As indeed we are for all those who have contacted us since reading the blog to let us [...]
Imagine Festival Photos
There’s some photos from our recent trip to Basle to play the Imagine Festival added to the photos page
Ashes to ashes
Bonfire is, as we know, adapted from the French “Good fire”. It is believed to come from an exchange between Martin “Guy” Fawkes and Robert Catesby. When Catesby enquired as to whether levels of gunpowder lying beneath the House of Parliament would be sufficient to successfully deliver their plot, Fawkes is said to have replied [...]
Milk & Honey
Dear Reader, I hope the summer is treating you well
We’ve downed tools recently as we’ve been busy hatching and matching. Though before the hiatus began, we managed to squeeze in a live demo recording session to assess how the first batch are developing.
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
Chipping away at the rockface
Photos by Bart Pettman
Bart Pettman’s photos of Live at Leeds and from the Vibrations feaure are added to our Photos page. For more of Bart’s work, peruse>
Heads We Dance
Today sees the official Fake DIY Records release of the Heads We Dance debut album “Love Technology” I’m personally delighted to finally see the fruition of many years of endeavour from the guys. In a previous life, early incarnations of our respective bands crossed paths/shared bills, as some of the dedicated may have witnessed, whilst [...]
JG RIP
As we Twittered/Tweeted(?) yesterday, the passing of JG Ballard resonated both in the music world as well as the literary world. There is a decent article here talking about Ballard’s influence on music, by looking into some of the fantastic music it inspired. The Manic Street Preachers were also into him too, it appears.
Training / Camp
I don’t know if you’ve been keeping your eye on the expanding confirmed line up for Live at Leeds 2009, but it is looking particularly tasty, with more acts to be confirmed. I’m particularly looking forward to A Camp, fronted by The Cardigans’ Nina Persson (her of beautiful voice fame) and also including Niclas Frisk [...]
Good vibrations
A few weeks ago Jim and I went to The Reliance in Leeds to enjoy very, very small coffees with a fine chap by the name of Spencer Bayles. Spencer writes for Leeds-based mag Vibrations. We talked about our journey to the beginnings of III, our involvement with record labels and the like. You can [...]
Let them eat cake
As Whiskas mentioned in the Live at Leeds post, we hit the rehearsal room this week for the first time as DUELS III, and muchos fun was had. A cake in the shape of a champagne bottle and warm Grolsch all laid on special like to welcome Whiskas. Despite our creaking bones shaking with the [...]
News of the World
Our Barbarians give away made the News of the World north of the border this weekend If you’d have said to us we’d be in the tabloids next to an article that references a “cunning wheeze” I would have suggested we keep that quiet, alas no harm done as they are merely mentioning the album [...]
Download "The Barbarians Move In" for FREE
On the anniversary of the digital release of the album, we’re giving away the digital version of the album for free. Right click on the link below to download the digital version of “The Barbarians Move In”. The Barbarians Move In.zip (67MB) It includes MP3 versions of: 1. The Furies 2. Sleeping Giants 3. Regeneration [...]
Now we are five
Yes that’s right, we’re delighted to announce that Whiskas has joined the band. He’s always been close to our inner workings, particularly through the making of Barbarians, but beyond anything he’s a fantastic guitarist and it’s gonna be great to see and hear how it all fits together. We’re gonna try and document the making [...]
Brothers & Sisters on Channel 4′s Shipwrecked
Earlier today I received a tip-off from an avid fan of crap tv that Duels has just provided the soundtrack to T4′s “Shipwrecked”. Needless to say, I uncorked a vintage and populated the cheese board and kicked back with Channel 4 +1, and was subjected to a quite peculiar bunch of Man and Woman Friday’s [...]
Napoleon III Sleeping Giants Remix Available
We are delighted to give away an exclusive Napoleon III remix of “Sleeping Giants”. To download the remix, right click on the link below and ‘Save As’ Sleeping Giants (Napoleon III Remix) 6.6MB Napoleon III is releasing a mini-album entitled “Hideki Yukawa” on 16th Feb. For more details and to hear tracks from it visit [...]
Camden Crawl interview
Here’s an interview of us talking shit at last year’s Camden Crawl. And yes we are that red in person…
Barbarians makes Click Music Albums of the Year
Click Music placed “The Barbarians Move In” at number 5 in their Editor’s Choice: Albums of the Year. We’re in with some great records, to see the full top 10 click here The album also appeared in the Legacy Recordings review of the year, aside a damn fine synopsis of the album. That lives here
Brand Spanking New Website
Hello reader, and welcome to our new digital home. Throughout the year we intend to chart the making of DUELS III with blogs, photos and videos. Also keep your eyes open for exclusive downloads we’ll be making available through this website. Our contact email address has also changed, you can now get in touch with [...]
Q Magazine review
So the reviews for the album keep coming, and people keep saying nice things. Latest to add to the list is Q Magazine. They give the record 4 stars, and use words like “they reach for the stars, laudably sophiscated, laudably widescreen”. They also put a little box thats says “Q Recommends” next to the [...]
Spring Is A Condition (that makes bands release great music)
Don’t let the April showers dampen your mood, those rains are replenishing the earth, from the earth grows some stuff, some of that stuff is later eaten by bands, who then record music using the energy given to them by the stuff (potatoes etc). Yes, Dear Reader, the first yield of the second crop is [...]