Marmaduke Duke Tour Dates
Marmaduke Duke, the self-created surreal musical world of enigmatic Scottish duo The Atmosphere and The Dragon, two frontmen better known as Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro and JP Reid of Sucioperro, have announced six live dates for March 2008:
28 February EDINBURGH Bongo Club
1 March MANCHESTER Deaf Institute
2 March BIRMINGHAM The Rainbow
4 March LONDON Heaven
5 March LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
6 March GLASGOW School of Art
Marmaduke Duke will also release the single ‘Kid Gloves’ through 14th Floor Records on 2nd March. ‘Kid Gloves’ is the first single to come from Marmaduke Duke’s forthcoming second album Duke Pandemonium – part two of a three part mythological musical trilogy, performed and produced by The Atmosphere and The Dragon in 24 hours, and mixed by Rich Costey (Muse, Mars Volta, Bloc Party).
And what about The Duke himself? He is perceived by The Atmosphere and The Dragon as a wandering soul, a personification of man’s most primitive and often under-explored impulses. In the debut album The Magnificent Duke, The Duke charted his slow descent into psychosis as represented by three differing musical suites– larynx-shredding rock, head-mashing ambient and heart-melting acoustic. In Duke Pandemonium, we see a change in the duke: The Duke is back and is ready to party. This is a soundtrack to hedonism, decadence, deviance and dancing and ‘Kid Gloves’ is its audacious and deceptively restrained illustration of the hedonistic partying to follow.