lot of club shows all over the
country and I'm not sure if there
LET’S TALK ABOUT ‘NONSENSE SO WHAT’S IN STORE FOR
are any venues that would do the
IN THE DARK’. YOU MUST BE 2009 & BEYOND?
live thing in amongst a club night.
PRETTY EXCITED TO HAVE AN
A lot of clubs come to us for
ALBUM UNDER YOUR BELT? more FESTIVALS. Lots of remixes
“FESTIVALS, FESTIVALS and
bookings but we've never been
for Bloc Party, White Lies, The
offered anything form Kent. We've
took a long time to sink in that it
“It's an amazing feeling. it
Enemy, Hockey, Lady Ga Ga,
never even dj’ed at a club in Kent.
is was finally out there. it also Vagabond, The Temper Trap and
We did dj at Lounge On The Farm
took us a long time to make, and The Rakes. Hopefully starting on
last year. It was lots of fun.”
at times we wondered if it would
ever get finished and released.
some new material soon too.”
WHAT’S TOURING LIKE?
We were doing the live show for ARE THERE ANY NEW BANDS
ANYTHING FUNNY OCCUR ON
nearly a year before it was THAT HAVE CAUGHT YOUR
YOUR TRAVELS? AND WHAT
released so when we’d play, EYE? ANYONE WE SHOULD BE
WAS THE STRANGEST THING
nobody knew any of the songs. WATCHING?
YOU SAW?
Getting a crowd to dance along to
a song they don't know is really We're releasing singles on our Kill
“Plugs and We Have Band.
work. Olly and i are used to dj’ing
“Touring is fun but also hard hard. Now the album is out you Em All label. Check them out.”
which involves turning up and
see peolpe singing along which is
playing tunes to people. Live is a
great. In fact we played at the The Gig Guide 5:
different beast altogether though.
Camden Crawl the other night and
There's lots of stuff to carry, lots
someone at the front was singing FAVOURITE BAR SNACK?
of driving, setting up,
the words to Messages so loud
packing down, more
that i couldn't here myself sing!” hairy ones though) with a Kentish
“Pork Scratchings (not the
carrying and more
Ale.”
driving. But, doing the
IT ALSO FEATURES A
show is a lot of fun. it's
PLETHORA OF GUEST VOCALS; WHAT’S THE BIGGEST ANIMAL
fantastic being up
IS YOU COULD TAKE ON IN
there playing your
DIFFERENT OR
EVERY TRACK WILDY
UNARMED COMBAT?
own music. We STYLE?!
EVERYONE HAVE
DOES
A SIMILAR
so something a bit smaller than
“A badger would be too scary
Adelphi in Hull, that
played at The
artists had to have a connection
“We decided that all the that. My mate got attacked by a
a venue that's been
was pretty weird. It's to us either through remixes or
squirral once but he was
kill em all. As for the sound, we're
unscathed. Something inbetween
but it's basically an
going for 25 years lucky that most of the artists have
a squirral and a badger... a big
a similar style of vocal. Plastic
rabbit.”
with a venue at the
end of terrace house Little and Mark from Foriegn
Islands stand out with their vocal
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR
this little street thinking
back! We drove down styles but it helps to keep the
MESSAGE TO THE WORLD?
no way this must be the
tracks sounding fresh. I
wrong road but there it
sometinmes find that if an artist
turn up loud and enjoy!”
“Buy our album, put it on,
was. It was great night
has a real distinctive voice, that
though. Some of the
all the songs can be taken over by
WHAT’S YOUR PET HATE?
views from Travelodges
the singing style and almost make
have been pretty
them sound the same.”
what you love)”
“Haters. (Concentrate on
interesting.
Check out
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE &
TEA OR COFFEE?
our blog for
LEAST FAVOURITE THING
“Tea, white, one sugar.”
some
ABOUT BEING IN
videos.”
DUKES?
FILTHY
it released for the world to listen
“Getting to make music, have www.filthydukes.com
to and then perform it is a dream
come true (is that 3 things?
sorry!). Least favorite; Long
The ex
journeys and travelodges. ”
album;
citing debut
in the Dark
Nonsense
available now
is
.
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