Marmaduke Dando is the bard of disempire, a crooner of morose ballads and fiery diatribes, often eliciting references to The Bad Seeds, Roxy Music, and Scott Walker.
He writes about the horrors of the modern world, and barks back at it in iniquitous dives with his 5 piece organ-fuelled band. Originally from Portsmouth and of genuine pirate ancestry, he is now based in London and living amongst the bargee community.
Of his music, Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music, has said it’s “…distinctively haunting…”, and Charlie Ashcroft, Artrocker, like “…poetry in motion…”.
His songs have been set to films, woven into a seminal Secret Cinema event, and played in the Houses of Parliament.
The second album from Marmaduke Dando, ‘Sweet Dregs’, released on Outsider Records, July 15th, 2013.
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The debut album from Marmaduke Dando, ‘Heathcliffian Surly’, released on Outsider Records, September 5th, 2010.
Buy album here
He writes about the horrors of the modern world, and barks back at it in iniquitous dives with his 5 piece organ-fuelled band. Originally from Portsmouth and of genuine pirate ancestry, he is now based in London and living amongst the bargee community.
Of his music, Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music, has said it’s “…distinctively haunting…”, and Charlie Ashcroft, Artrocker, like “…poetry in motion…”.
His songs have been set to films, woven into a seminal Secret Cinema event, and played in the Houses of Parliament.
Buy album here
Buy album here