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Duke Special Songs From The Silver Screen
 | Waterfront Studio
Thursday 17 April 9.00PM
£13
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| | | | | | | | Duke Special is a performer who harks back to the pre-rock n roll era with dashes of fairytale, Gershwin and orchestral swing. Duke Special, AKA the endlessly inventive Peter Wilson, produces a sound that he calls “hobo-chic”.
On stage, Duke Special explodes into musical mayhem the battered old trademark gramophone wheezes, huge cymbals clash, egg whisks and cheese graters break free from the kitchen, a stumpf fiddle screeches and the crushed velvet covered piano thumps and tinks in unison but its the very core of the songs, his heartfelt, passionate poems, that will remain in your head long after the lights have gone down. For this special collaboration with the Belfast Film Festival Duke Special will present a series of new songs to accompany a selection of Czech and Polish animations, early silent films and surrealist films from the 1940s. Peter will also introduce some other short films and talk about how they have inspired and influenced his visual style.
This is a standing event.
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