Billy Bragg, Bic Runga, The Clash, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Anika Hori Bitch Moa, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, UB40, Le Tigre, Bressa Creeting Cake, Peaches, Gillian Welch, Weezer, Phoenix Foundation, The Smiths, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, Juliana Hatfield, Noam Chomsky (mostly for Linguistic terminology), Boogie Down Productions, Fiona Apple, Toots and the Maytals, Ed Cake, etc etc etc
Duchess formed in late 2004, making their live debut at the Illicit Streetwear Christmas party that same year. Comprised of three girls from the mighty Waikato and one boy from Bethells beach, Anna, Aidee, Janna and Jonny are based in Auckland city and have been playing around the big smoke ever since with the likes of Goldenhorse, Goodshirt, Pluto, Ladi 6, SJD, the Mint Chicks, This Night Creeps, Voom and Cocosolid.
Duchess formed from the ashes of the three girls’ teenage ghetto-pop band. As maturity dampened their taste for the sugary-sweet, they dissolved and stayed quiet for over a year. But after Anna spent another summer in her hometown of Raglan writing songs about social ineptitude, heartbreak, the perils of development, Hamilton night clubs, bad gardening experiences, and swimming, she realised that the therapeutic value of said songs would not be fully realised until she could play them live with Aidee and Janna. They also realised, however, that their definitive vision for this next-level pop required something more. They found it after one practice/shared lunch with drummer Jonny.
Duchess still make pop music, but it has more substance than such a term would have you believe. It’s less like a 50c mixture (which back in ’87 was enough to make you sick and rot your teeth) and more like a homemade biscuit with a cup of tea, served in an old tea cup with matching saucer, probably with a floral pattern (preferably roses). The biscuit recipe is a make-do special because you don’t have all the right ingredients and can’t be bothered going to the store, but it ends up tasting exactly how you want it to.
Duchess are strong advocates of the make-do special. They know that fancy instruments are not a prerequisite for making good music, and that more money will not necessarily make your record sound any better, or you look any more stylish. They have proven that a classy tea party can be thrown together on even the tightest budget with mis-matched crockery, home-baked goods and volunteers. They do not claim, nor are they interested in, virtuoso musical abilities, but believe that with a bit of taste you can do a good song far more justice.
They put these ideas to the test when recording their self-titled, independently released 6-song EP and, though at times it felt like pushing shit uphill, were pleased to be proven right. Produced by Edmund Cake (Ed Cake, Anika Moa, formerly of Bressa Creeting Cake), it is often melodic, harmonic and friendly, occasionally distressed, antisocial or nasty, but always very honest.
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And to top it off, another edition of SNAPSHOT the FREE Drum'n Bass party this Sunday Dec 23 @ Safari! I'll be joining a juicy line up of 10 local DJ's to get some seriously festive seasoning in the mix, and plenty CD giveaways involved as per.
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NEWS FLASH...The Latest from the Motel Six news desk/table shoved against the wachine machine.We will be playing with Payola at the Kings arms on May the 19th.Real Groovy instore on Friday 8th of June,Then the BIG one....our album release show at the Amabassador Theatre with The Bengal Lights and Don Julio and The Hespanic Mechanic plus some Dancin Girls!!!Saturday June the 9th.
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Hi, Miriam's on tour with her band for NZ Music month. Be great to see you if you can make it. Tickets will be for sale at the venues or go in the draw to win a prize pack [including Miriam's Lucky One CD, DVD, Poster and Badges]
by purchasing them by visa here; VISA - TICKETEK Thanks! jP @ miriamclancy.com
Miriam Clancy - Lucky One - In Stores Now : itunes | cdbaby | amplifier | marbecks | smokecds Best Sounds of The Year - NZ Herald || 5/5 stars - Sunday Star Times
|| 5/5 stars - Waikato Times
Yo! Lapser boys passing through to say hey and cheers for the connection on myspace. Got another new song on our page "Take a walk" and a couple of local gigs coming up in may also so swing by our page and check it out...........
