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Imagine Festival 2010

View of the main stage @ Imagine Festival

We are delighted to announce that we will be making our first appearance in Switzerland as part of 2010’s Imagine Festival.
Located in the heart of Basle, the festival takes place on June 11 - June 12, with our performance being on the first day. The festival should give chance to perform some new material from [...]


Barbarians CD/Regeneration 7 Vinyl for £6

This is Fake DIY are offering the CD/Vinyl Barbarians/Regeneration bundle for £6.
After enjoying the free download you may wish to own the releases in physical format. “The Barbarians Move In” is on CD and is available with the 7″ vinyl format of single “Regeneration” (b/w “When The Sea Comes”.
To order your copy visit the Fake [...]


Ashes to ashes

Bonfire

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 “Aye, [...]


THERE WON’T ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND

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with the baffling nonsense of Nick Griffin still ringing in the ears, no better time to listen to ‘There Won’t Always Be An England’ by Leeds heroes The Wind Up Birds;
Paul’s writing some of the best lyrics I’ve heard.
Duels reconvene for drinks and snacks soon to discuss getting down to it. Hopefully more news on [...]


Honour Before Glory

Honour Before Glory

DUELS’ own Whiskas has been busy working on a project he, and now everyone else, calls “Honour Before Glory”.
To hear the first crop of material, featuring help from various friends including Jon Foulger visit the HBG myspace. He talks about the project a bit on his blog, and there are words from the horses mouth [...]


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FLASH NEWS

he y ho - things are calming down a little and the itch has started again so we’re making plans to start scratching it. I found a keyboard I love so I’m off to try it out with new songs and stick some vocals and things on our recent offspring on Thursday. There’s plans to [...]


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

Love Technology

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 behind [...]


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  • 11/06/10 in DUELS in Basle at Imagine Festival