This edition features Headgear; the Limerick band whose album Flight Cases has been shortlisted for the CLUAS Album of the Year 2007. The musical project of Dublin Born Daragh Dukes (DD); Headgear describe themselves as a ‘collage of folk, electronica and rock.’ Along with colleague Barra O’Toole (BO'T) - Headgear’s ‘Guitar Department’ - Dukes becomes the inaugural Key Note Speaker. Favourite Songs from the Past Year DD: My Body is a Cage - Arcade Fire; Atlas - Battles; 15 Step - Radiohead BO’T: Sunny Sweeny's - I'm Gonna Be The Next Big Nothin Favourite Song Ever DD: Moon River - Henry Mancini BO’T: Danny Whitten - I Don't Want To Talk About It Favourite Headgear Song DD: Generally it's the next one I'm going to write BO’T: Will They Be Friendly? and the, as yet unwritten, At Least The Gun that's At My Head Is Mine Favourite New Band/Artist DD: Fight Like Apes sound like good craic BO’T: Sunny Sweeny Favourite Band/Artist Ever DD: I would change this every day. Today, though, I will say Tom Waits BO’T: Neil Young, Hank Williams and many others if I'm drunk and they happen to come on the music playing machine I'm hanging on to for dear life in the corner. And The Bothy Band
Favourite Gig This Year DD: Si Schroeder at The Electric Picnic BO’T: Felonius A. Salt and the Bottle of Rum, Crawdaddy, Dublin Favourite Gig Ever DD: Radiohead at The Olympia BO’T: Ron Sexmith at The Belltable, Limerick about 12/13 years ago Favourite Headgear Gig Ever DD: It's going on in my head at the moment BO’T: Cherry Jam, London Favourite Venue DD: Guerin's Bar, Castleconnell BO’T: Dolan's, Limerick Favourite Piece of Musical Equipment DD: My old Jazzmaster that i bought for 200 quid 16 years ago BO’T: A finely polished Bugle Download or CD/Cassette/Record DD: They've all got something to offer but vinyl definitely has more to give BO’T: No preference. Do people still use cassette? Favourite TV Show at the Moment DD: I don't know anything about it BO’T: Just finished a couple seasons worth of the US version of The Office. FACT: Very funny. And before that 30 Rock. I don't watch anything week to week Best Movie Ever Seen DD: 2001 A Space Odyssey BO’T: Singin' In The Rain...depending on my mood...Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch. Or if it's after midnight Key Largo or The Maltese Falcon or probably anything with Humphrey Bogart Greatest Book Ever Read DD: Pnin by Nabokov BO’T: The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake and Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy. And The London A-Z...obviously Most Listened to Radio Show DD: JK Ensemble BO’T: I don't own a radio What’s in Store for Headgear Next DD: New version of To Heaven will be released end of January 2008 along with some live shows. A new album should be finished late 2008 - Headgear's Wild West - is the working title BO’T: I can only speak for everyone ever connected with Headgear when I say that sobriety and surrender are not an option. The Treachery is too far gone. We will walk with The King next year. And maybe try for a guest appearance on Hall's Pictorial Weekly
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