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The Duke Spirit
The Duke Spirit are an English rock band based in London. Their sound has been seen as a melding of many influences ranging from the alternative noise of 1980s/90s guitar bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Spacemen 3, the tremulous rock n roll of bands such as The Gun Club and The Cramps, early R&B, garage and psychedelia, through to a distinctive rhythmic 'Atlantic soul' and Motown influence.
The band is currently in the U.K. writing and recording its third album.
The band was formed in London in 2003 by Ford, Moss and Butler. Ford and Moss met at art college in Cheltenham where he was studying Photography and Moss was studying a Fine Art Foundation Course. Butler and Ford also met at the same college at around the same time and briefly played in a band together. Creating The Duke Spirit they set about writing, recording and self-producing a bunch of songs that formed the basis of their first single and "Roll Spirit Roll" E.P.
The band released their first single "Darling You're Mean/Bottom of the Sea" in May on the City Rockers label, without having performed live. After a chance meeting with drummer Olly Betts, the band was complete and played their first show at
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