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Duke Special 'Condition' performed for GiftedLive.com 29/03/12
04:37This is duke special performing 'condition' with arco string quartet for giftedlive.com on 29/03/12.Duke Special 'Nothing Shall Come Between Us' performed Live for Gifted ..
03:06Duke special 'nothing shall come between us' performed live for giftedlive.com 29/03/12 at the empire music hall, belfast. this is the first performance of the song from duke special's new album 'oh ..Duke Special 'Spiritual America' performed for GiftedLive.com on 29/03 ..
03:32Duke special 'spiritual america' performed for giftedlive.com on 29/03/12 with arco string quartetDuke Special 'Interview for GiftedLive.com 06/06/12
00:59Duke special 'interview for giftedlive.com 06/06/12Duke Special and Pugwash 'I've gotta get a message to you' at GiftedLi ..
03:21Duke special and pugwash 'i've gotta get a message to you' at gifted live 07/06/12Duke Special 'Last night I nearly died but I woke up just in time' per ..
04:27Duke special 'last night i nearly died but i woke up just in time' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Punch of a friend' performed live for GiftedLive.com on ..
04:34Duke special 'punch of a friend' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Last chord' performed live for GiftedLive.com on 07/06/1 ..
05:03Duke special 'last chord' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Salvation tambourine' performed live for GiftedLive.com ..
06:00Duke special 'salvation tambourine' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Apple jack' performed live for GiftedLive.com on 07/06/1 ..
03:21Duke special 'apple jack' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Condition' performed live for GiftedLive.com on 07/06/12
05:41Duke special 'condition' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Wanda darling of the jockey club(a bithch called wanda)' ..
03:28Duke special 'wanda darling of the jockey club(a bithch called wanda)' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'How I learned to love the sun' performed live for Gifted ..
04:26Duke special 'how i learned to love the sun' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Digging an early grave' performed live for GiftedLive.co ..
04:20Duke special 'digging an early grave' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12Duke Special 'Our love goes deeper than this' performed live for Gifte ..
04:22Duke special 'our love goes deeper than this' performed live for giftedlive.com on 07/06/12
Duke Special is an artist aptly named. Dynamic, musically ambitious & bracingly eccentric, with his inimitable style and lush musicality. Hailing from Belfast with a sound that is self-confessed “hobo-chic”, Duke Special – AKA the endlessly inventive Peter Wilson – is once heard, never forgotten. Blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke Special inhabits… a world unlike any other – a world filled with vaudeville-esque sensibility, sing-a-longs and addictive melodies .
Those who know him for the platinum album “Songs from the deep forest”, including the hit song “Freewheel” and other radio mainstays like “Sweet sweet kisses” and “Last night I nearly died” may be surprised by the breadth of his work. Duke Special’s immense creative talents have seen him involved in projects as diverse as writing the theme tune for Sesame Tree (the Northern Ireland edition of Sesame Street where he also got to sing with The Muppets) to writing the music for and appearing in Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed 2009 production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s National Theatre. He then recorded an album of the twelve songs from the play, which was to form part of his ambitious project for 2010 – the release of a 3 CD box-set, The Stage, A Book & The Silver Screen. This box-set also included a 5-track EP called Huckleberry Finn, the first ever recording of an unfinished musical written by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson based on the Mark Twain classic, and the album The Silent World of Hector Mann, featuring 12 songs based on The Book of Illusions by contemporary American author Paul Auster.
In 2011, he presented a TV documentary for RTE in Ireland on the life and times of 50s megastar Ruby Murray. This was broadcast in January, and accompanied by 2 orchestral concerts in Dublin and Cork, showcasing Duke’s interpretations of Ruby’s songs. He also released a charity single of recordings of 3 of Duke’s favourite Ruby songs, donating all the profits to the Irish charity Depaul Ireland .
Also that year Duke Special was commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for their exhibition on the photographers Stieglitz, Steichen, and Strand. He was invited to write a series of original songs based on the photographs featured in the exhibition, which he then performed at the Museum’s concert hall (and later in London, Dublin and Belfast) to a backdrop of the photographs. The songs were released on CD as “Under the dark cloth.”
Of the new album “Oh Pioneer”, Duke says “Wooden Fingers Puppet Theatre Company, The Bank of Ideas, a banned Iranian children’s book about a fish, a pirate who wants to retire, a bar man who hears people’s stories whether he likes it or not, the human condition and late night conversations with friends on the roof of the ‘Oh Yeah’ building in Belfast about your dreams are just a few of the ingredients to go into “Oh Pioneer”.”
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