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Duke Raoul
Alternative / Indie

"Back in the studio!"

Brighton,
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  8/29/2008
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   Duke Raoul: General Info
Member Since2/10/2005
Band Websitedukeraoul.co.uk
Band MembersAlex Painter- Vocals, Guitar, Programming.
Jez Berns- Bass, Backing Vocals.
Chris Griffin - Synth, Guitar.
Dan Harding - Drums.

InfluencesDavid Bowie, Dismemberment Plan, My Bloody Valentine, Deerhoof, Grandaddy, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, Refused, At the Drive-In, Nick Cave, Enon...
Sounds LikePost-Rock-Post-Hardcore-Post-Punk-Postmen

From solo show review: "Makes many other male solo artists look stale in comparison." -Artrocker Magazine

Record LabelPrime Cut Music
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Sep 24 2008 8:00P
FREE BRIGHTON LIVE GIG @ Ocean Rooms Brighton, London and South East
Oct 17 2008 8:00P
Club Raoul @ Prince Albert Brighton, London and South East

Duke Raoul's Latest Blog Entry  [Subscribe to this Blog]

Leeds Music Scene review of instrumental Attack!!! Fanzine contribution  (view more)

’Raoul back in the studio!  (view more)

Live solo review in 'Artrocker'.  (view more)

Raoul on ace 'Not Your Usual Bollocks' podcast!  (view more)

Some reviews.  (view more)

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   About Duke Raoul
Post-rock atmosphere and swathes of synth wrap around spiky post-punk fury. A kind of sunny melancholy drenching fits of energy. Quietly optimistic songs of love, ambition and modern life played with punk vigour and a very real passion.

Duke Raoul have played alongside bands like The Futureheads, Clor, Pull Tiger Tail, The Subways and Victorian English Gentlemens Club. As well as appearing on underground compilations and podcasts they appeared on Smalltown America’s highly acclaimed Public Service Broadcast compilation series (PSB 2 and PSB 9). They’ve played been played on Radio One, XFM, and enjoyed rave reviews from DrownedinSound.

Right now they are recording their debut album.

Chuck us an email at info AT dukeraoul DOT co DOT uk

OUT NOW

Public Service Broadcast 9 new bands compilation from Smalltown America recordings. We're featured alongside bands like Holy Fuck, Tiger Force, Q Without You and loads of other exciting bands. It's out now and you can order it HERE.

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Duke Raoul's Friends Comments
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ells bells loves alex ツ





Aug 29 2008 6:23 PM

ooh sounds good (:

haha, he got a simon and patrick make in a shop near tottenham court road, it took us aaages to find it but it was worth it (:

and he did purchase me something with moomins on it yay.

x
Ambassadors of Morocco





Aug 26 2008 11:08 AM

He was in the year above me at school and then after uni I played in a band with him called Bunkbed (now called Seven Summits), but then I moved to London and joined a new band!
Ambassadors of Morocco





Aug 21 2008 10:48 AM

I think your lead singer knows my mate Rory from Belfast!?

Matthew Rodgers from Ambassadors of Morocco
Those Crazy 88s





Aug 20 2008 7:57 PM

Hey guys, see we're sharing the stage with you at Freebutt on Friday, what gear are you taking?

Thanks

Those Crazy 88s
ells bells loves alex ツ





Aug 20 2008 7:10 PM

hullo (:

how have you been keeping yourself of late?

i am off to london tomorrow to help my alex buy a twelve string guitar haha, it's all lost on me i'm afraid, though i wouldn't mind trying my hand at piano...
x
GigDoggy





Aug 17 2008 10:48 PM

This link is a blog for touring bands:

www. gigdoggy. com

It's a place for bands to explain how they book shows.
Comes along with news on web technologies, music industry trends and recording gizmos

Enjoy,

GigDoggy
Meatbreak





Aug 5 2008 8:19 AM

Two of our most exciting events of the year come to you back to back, this Thursday and Friday.

First 070808:



Released Sept 08' but brought to you in advance by Not For Resale, the new compilation release from Brighton's Toy Soldier Records gets it's rightful release knees-up (and in yr face) at NFR in August.

'1:18th' - 18-Track CD compilation featuring: Jonquil, Revenge of Shinobi, Bats, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Everyone to the Anderson, Lebanons, Little Trophy, Who Owns Death TV, Epideme, Laish Quartet, Sunshine the Werewolf +++ Many, many, many more



Then FRIDAY (080808 – YEAH!) brings you this:



The NFR club night in full effect - future disco, mutant indie, guest djs and bands. A ridiculously decadent night of neon insanity.

Starting off with ex-My Rhino man matt’s new Overwatch outfit. A meshing and mashing of Warp style IDM electronics and crushing Relapse guitar riffs and textures www. myspace. com/httpwwwmyspacecomoverwatch

Second up is Londons one and only 8-bit one-man thrash metal band. We’ve been playing him for months and are very excited to bring you his debut Brighton performance. The immense Kkasio-dooom-wave-thrash-tech-getto-core of Iron Pirate is primed, under orders and ready to ravage!!! Get his album now and see what’s in store for y’all come high summer www. myspace. com/ironpirat

Finishing you off will be Brighton’s P For Persia with their psycho-jungle-comes-alive inter-galactic no-wave, ex-grunge de-fib un-tuned diskko sludge
www. myspace. com/pforpersia

.....This gig is going to be one of the most incendiary off the wall events you will EVER see.


Bring yourselves.



MxBx
Loyal Trooper





Jul 27 2008 2:06 PM

hey alex, how's it going man? i still love all that old stuff i've got of yours. 'enjoy the silence' is the best cover of that song ever.
x
Not For Resale





Jul 23 2008 2:56 PM

Owls would be great. Little Owls are my favourite I think. or Eagle Owls...or Scops...or Snowy....

owls are great.

MxBx
Ambassadors of Morocco





Jul 19 2008 5:51 PM

Thanks for the add. See you at Monto Water Rats, King Cross (supporting Reef/Basement Jaxx) on August 8th.

Facebook event url: http://www. facebook. com/event. php?eid=24960203687

Ambassadors x

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Attack!!!! magazine





Jul 19 2008 3:50 PM

"It sounds as though Duke Raoul are providing the score to some moody indie flick. This is a beautiful, meandering song that may lack the emotional highs of most instrumental pieces, but it oozes atmosphere all the same"

- Leeds Music Scene review of Duke Raoul's track for Attack!!!! 9.
BABIES!





Jul 14 2008 8:36 PM

Hello

Brighton’s premier alternative disco returns this FRIDAY 18th JULY with the hotly tipped FLASHGUNS and the rock n’ soul diamonds CRANE BROTHERS playing live.

Open till 2am with late entry and DJs dropping bombs of the musical variety to make you dance ‘til your shoes cry for help.

Gonna be a good ‘un!

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Put It On Promotions





Jul 13 2008 10:14 PM

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ells bells loves alex ツ





Jul 13 2008 7:46 PM

ha ha tut tut.
im just in my final days in new york, i love the east village heard you do too :) x
End Of The Trail Records





Jul 6 2008 6:07 AM

Hey Duke Raoul check out our latest upcoming release!

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Thanks!

Kelly Munro

End Of The Trail Records

Absent





Jul 5 2008 11:05 PM

Hello, hope all is good just dropping by to say our album is now only £2+postage, for 12 tracks on limited edition cd our shop is http://d67. bigcartel. com, thanks and take care, Absent.
Steve





Jun 26 2008 7:09 AM

yep, i am... thats how i came by your site. :)

Steve
Meatbreak





Jun 24 2008 1:08 PM

Friday comes early this month. For one Night only, NFR LIVE! is on Thursday. But Thursday's are Friday's dipped in chocolate. Or something.

Brighton’s only free future music live band club night >>>




Laish Band are a genuine real, roots and dust folk band, hotwired into the 22nd century - a hybrid of rewardingly sensual experience the like of wish I can damn near promise you won’t have seen before (www. myspace. com/laishmusic).

The Stars Down To Earth say Rock And Roll Is Not Enough. It probably isn’t, which is why they get all percussive and pretty and heart-meltingly gorgeous. Because Rock and Roll is not enough (www. myspace. com/thestarsdowntoearth).

Last Days of Lorca have attitude. They have scary breaks of intimidating drums and will floor you with massive, immersive tidal waves of indie-noise – think Radiohead, but fiercer (www. myspace. com/lastdaysoflorca).
Le Band Extraordinaire





Jun 18 2008 10:21 PM

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RobLingDrummer





Jun 18 2008 8:18 PM

nice type of label... !
Mike Concrete





Jun 16 2008 8:05 PM

ells bells loves alex ツ





Jun 15 2008 7:23 PM

ha ha awesome, good luck in the studio (:
i'm off to new york in less than two weeks, can't wait. I won't be making a fake ID like you though tut tut ha ha.
x
ells bells loves alex ツ





Jun 12 2008 6:32 PM

hullo, how's things?
Dirty Hands





Jun 2 2008 12:48 AM

Hello there, just a quick note to say thank you for becoming our friend here on myspace, old and new. We would be grateful to know what your personal opinions are and if you can ever make it to one of our gigs we would love to meet you in person.

Thank you from all of us
Dirty Hands
Joy.





May 20 2008 6:21 AM




Meatbreak





May 5 2008 10:12 AM

NFR LIVE! 1st Birthday Party! This Friday!!

We’ve got a new venue for it – The Hope – BLAM in the centre of town. Still free.

Hope you can make it, this one’s going to be intense and a whole lot of fun.



This month we’ll be DJing new and exciting tunes from these kinds of outfits>>>

Be Your Own Pet / Benga / Blood Red Shoes / Bonde De Role / Boys Noise / Brodinski / Celebration / Chromatics / Cosmic Metal Mother / Crystal Castles / Dananananaykroyd / The Death Set / Der Blutharsch / D.I.M. / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Errors / Foals / Fucked Up / Future Of The Left / Glass Candy / Guns ‘N’ Bombs / Heartsrevolution / Holy Fuck / Klaxons / Kode9 / Late Of The Pier / Le Dust Sucker / M83 / MGMT / Midnight Juggernauts / Neon Neon / Of Montreal / Om / Portishead / Pterodactyl / Santogold / Shinichi Osawa / The Teenagers / Turbowolf / The Sword / These New Puritans / White Denim / White Hills / Wooden Shjips / Working For A Nuclear Free City…

All that, plus pure party atmos, strobes, projections…mayhem.

See you Friday!!!


MxBx
Duke Raoul





May 1 2008 8:54 PM

buddy valentine





Apr 30 2008 8:49 AM

aaah what!! 147?!! For fucks sake, the only year since about 1988 that I haven't been glued to the snooker like the sad twat that I am over the month of April, and there we go, I miss a truly great moment.

You lucky bastard.
X
Attack!!!! magazine





Apr 29 2008 5:37 PM

Everyone needs to get Attack!!!! 9 with its brand new Duke Raoul track on.



Paypal shop here or send us a cheque!

Thankyou thankyou. Bye now.
the miserable rich





Apr 25 2008 3:06 PM

Hullo there, we finally have a single, and set of lovely guests. if you can make it, please come down and help make our launch party a night to remember. tickets cheaper from komedia in advance Photobucket
Sarah Dickson





Apr 13 2008 6:12 PM

Hey Guys!
Hope all is good with you! I'm playing at the Troubadour, London this wed if you fancy coming by! Should be a great night! All the details are on my page.
All the best
Sarah
xx
Le Band Extraordinaire





Apr 13 2008 12:06 PM

Hey come this! You guys should really be playing more gigs too!!

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Wade.. ADD MY NEW PAGE!





Apr 1 2008 12:23 PM

hey man,
yea will definitely be at the gig.. That is why i looked you guys up! haha

catch
Joy.





Mar 30 2008 3:46 AM

Love Ends Disaster!





Mar 29 2008 6:35 PM

Ah... hello.

We’ve been shortlisted in the Gigwise competition for a slot at this year’s Camden Crawl.

It’s all down to a kind of online X-Factor public vote now, yes you have the chance to put us up there with the likes of Gareth Gates, Michelle McManus and that Andy bloke.

Please show us you support by taking a moment to vote for us here:

http://www. gigwise. com/news?contentid=41760

Thanks.

Oakes LED! X
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