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The Duke Spirit
English rock band
The Duke Spirit are an Englishrockband formed in London in and now based between the UK and Australia. Their sound has been seen as a melding of influences ranging from alternative rock bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Spiritualized, the tremulous rock'n'roll of bands such as The Gun Club and The Patti Smith Group, to distinctive rhythmic Atlantic soul and Motown influences.
Singer Liela Moss has released several solo records and also performs together with Toby Butler in the electro-rock duo Roman Remains. Drummer, Olly Betts is also an established record producer.
History
The band was formed in London in by Luke Ford (guitar), Liela Moss (vocals), Toby Butler (bass) and Dan Higgins (guitar).
Ford and Moss met at art college in Cheltenham where he was studying photography and Moss was taking a Fine Art course.
Liela moss biography of rory gilmore Described as "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming of having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding proposal because she is too young. Those blue eyes," Anthony told Vanity Fair. I didn't even know the basics about acting! Dean gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an affair, during which Rory loses her virginity.After moving to London and a short period writing and performing as Solomon (in which they were later joined by Butler) they formed The Duke Spirit. Along with guitarist Dan Higgins they set about writing, recording and self-producing a group of songs that formed the basis of their first single and EP.
Higgins also created the woodcuts that served as the band's early artwork.
The band released their second single "Darling You're Mean/Bottom of the Sea" in May on the City Rockers label. The line-up was completed by drummer Olly "The Kid" Betts, and the band played their first show at the Brixton Windmill later that year.
Liela moss biography of rory gilmore girls Dean gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an affair, during which Rory loses her virginity. Along the way, both of the titular Gilmore Girls find and lose love — so who does Rory date? Luke throws Rory a surprise graduation party, closing the original series. By Nina Starner Dec.They released the Roll, Spirit, Roll EP toward the end of , which won the band critical acclaim from publications such as NME.[2]
They moved over to Loog Records/Polydor and released their first full length album, Cuts Across The Land in the UK on 16 May The album's producers were Simon Raymonde (formerly the bass player in The Cocteau Twins, and now Bella Union Label boss) and Flood, who had produced many artists that the band admired, such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey.[2] After headlining tours of the UK, the album was released in the U.S.
and the band found themselves travelling through America for much of , including a highly praised[3] performance at the Coachella festival, California.
The only release of was a downloadable EP and limited 7" single entitled Covered in Love, released through the band's own Velo Recordings.
This was a collection of songs, recorded to 8-track by the band, written by the recently deceased (Arthur Lee, Desmond Dekker and Jessie Mae Hemphill).[2] In early , the band signed to You Are Here, a new independent Anglo-Canadian label. The track "Mayday", a collaboration between UNKLE and The Duke Spirit was released on the latest UNKLE album, War Stories, in the UK on 9 July [2] The track was recorded with Chris Goss at the Rancho De La Lunastudio in Joshua Tree, California[2] where they returned in April to record their own second album, also with Goss.
Neptune was released in February [2] Shortly afterwards, Higgins left the band, which prompted a personnel shuffle: Toby Butler switched to guitar, with longtime friend Marc Sallis replacing him on bass.
In February , the band released a track compilation CD featuring three songs never released in the US ("Masca", "Souvenir", "Do What You Love") as well as a cover of Alex Chilton's "Baby Doll".
Liela moss biography of rory gilmore death Retrieved Because she had her best friend, her mom, and she had her other friend, and she had her life. July 9, Thankfully, the show got a Netflix revival in — "A Year in the Life," spread across four seasonally appropriate 90 minute "episodes" — to clear up some lingering questions about Lorelai and Rory's respective romantic prospects, but there are still some mysteries about who Rory ends up with after the revival comes to a close.The CD was sold alongside an Alexander McQueen collection that included a shirt featuring the face of singer Liela Moss.
The band's third album, Bruiser (produced by Andrew Scheps and UNKLE's Rich File), was released in September through Fiction in the UK, Shangrila music in the U.S. and Co-Operative Music throughout the rest of the world.
The album was preceded by the Kusama EP in early , named in tribute to the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama whose work had become an inspiration to the band during the writing of their third album. Bruiser brought several more U.S. and European tours and they released a live LP, Dresden Live (recorded as the name would suggest in Dresden, Germany) for Record Store Day with a sleeve design by the British artist French.
Afterwards, the band entered a two-year hiatus; during this time, Moss and Butler released new music under the moniker Roman Remains, while Betts produced for and drummed with the London band Furs.
In October , the band re-grouped and working between London & Somerset they began writing a fourth LP. They again enlisted the services of producer Simon Raymonde, and in January the band began recording the new album, titled Kin, at Urchin Studios in Hackney, London, with sessions spanning a period of three weeks.
The album featured guest vocals from Mark Lanegan on Wounded Wing and Sam Windett of Archie Bronson Outfit on Side By Side .
Liela moss biography of rory gilmore wife Alexis Bledel was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She's actually staying with Logan, who lives in London Retrieved August 22, External links [ edit ].September brought with it the first Duke Spirit performance in three years at the End of the Road Festival with new bass player Rich Fownes (Bad for Lazarus, Unkle, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster) and also the first release from Kin, the song "Here Comes the Vapour". The following single, "Blue and Yellow Light", was released in November with the album itself released in
The band's sixth album Sky Is Mine soon followed, in The album was produced by the band themselves in Somerset and featured guest vocal appearances from Josh T.
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Success
Initially a 'word of mouth' band, their relentless touring schedules helped them spread their music across England and beyond into America and the rest of Europe, culminating in a nomination for "Best Live Band" at the Artrocker Magazine Awards.[citation needed] They have played a number of high-profile support slots for Queens of the Stone Age, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, R.E.M., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jane's Addiction, Supergrass and Eagles Of Death Metal.
Since , the band have performed on American and British TV multiple times, appearing on Late Show with David Letterman, Later with Jools Holland, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Call with Carson Daly, The Henry Rollins Show and Shameless.
Their songs "Send a Little Love Token" and Mayday were also included in the fifth title in the Guitar Hero video game series and Grand Theft Auto IV respectively.
Personnel
- Current members
- Liela Moss - vocals, harmonica, piano, percussion (–present)
- Luke Ford - guitar, backing vocals, Farfisa, piano, Autoharp (–present)
- Toby Butler - guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, organs, piano (–present)
- Olly 'The Kid' Betts - drums, glockenspiel, percussion, piano, backing vocals (–present)
- Rich Fownes - bass guitar (–present)
- Former members
- Dan Higgins - guitar, autoharp (–)
- Marc Sallis - bass guitar (–)
Discography
Main article: The Duke Spirit discography