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We may import Karen O onto our computers, borrow from Canada Metric’s Emily Haines, and look far for Australia’s Juanita Stein of Howling Bells, but for a female


fronted rock band, we shouldn’t look further than our own fertile soil. Te Duke Spirit remain criminally underrated by the UK, even though America gets them and the


industry gets them – Alexander McQueen got frontwoman Liela Moss so much he put her on a T-shirt. Te UK waking up has to be a tide that’s coming in, and 3rd album ‘Bruiser’ might be the one to open their eyes. We talk to the charming Liela Moss ahead of their date in Norwich…


Where are you at the moment? We’re just in East London in our little rehearsal studio, just yeah, rehearsing!


Are you very disciplined in rehearsals? Erm, well we’re getting that way. We’re still a bit last minute about it ‘cause we’ve realised there’s still stuff off the new album that we don’t know yet, so we better get to it.


Absolutely, you need to be polishing that stuff up because we’ve got you in Norwich at the beginning of this month. We’re one of only a few UK dates – are you just trying to fit in a few warm-up dates? Yeah, exactly, we’ve got a few warm- up shows and a couple of in-stores based in London, then a couple of regional shows to warm you up before you end up getting on a coach


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touring around a very cold Northern Europe.


Tose few regional dates, are people more forgiving as you’re breaking in the new material if there are a couple of loose ends here and there? You know what, we’ll hopefully catch people who won’t have bought the album yet, so we can still muddle through and no-one can compare it to the album! Hopefully by the time they pick up the album they’ll have forgotten and no-one will know whether we did the right number of bars in the chorus or whatever.


We’ll hope that no really anally retentive fans will be in attendance. Tere’ll be no-one giving us the post- match run down…


Tweeting every missed beat, haha. Te way you got together as a band


was quite pertinent to Norwich. You came out of Art School, which is so often a hotbed of musical talent. What do you think it is about that atmosphere? I don’t know, I suppose the one thing that draws people to an arts environment is a searching need to express the inexpressible. I think people are drawn to something a little bit abstract and when people like that join together, you tend to try and express your experiences thus far. Where I grew up though, everyone was really into the Rave scene and Fantasia, so when you spotted someone at a little Indie Rock gig, you kind of gravitated towards them. Saying that, I’ve spent a lot of time – I mean, we’ve played the UEA a lot and I’ve spent a lot of time visiting the area and I was there last weekend, ‘cause I’ve got a lot of family who live in Norwich and


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