Loose were devastated to learn that Ernesto De Pascale passed away in his hometown of Florence, Italy this weekend, aged 52. Ernesto was a great man. A real true music lover, he ran his own PR company – Il Popolo del Blues – who were responsible for some incredible Italian press for our bands The Felice Brothers, The Duke & The King, Danny and The Champs and The RG Morrison.
Here’s a photo of Ernesto presenting Simone Felice with the award for Best Foreign Songwriter at last year’s Premio Ciampi.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
A little reminder that Long Live The Duke & The King will be released on Monday 27th September. Just think, this time next week you could have the the new Duke & The King album playing out of either your stereo, record player or mp3 gadget of choice. Or all three if you so wish. Either way, we strongly recommend that you are playing it.
Head on over this way to the Duke & The King website HERE to take a look at part 1 of a short film, following the making of the new record.
And either one of these ways to pre-order yourself a copy of Long Live The Duke & The King;
HMV
ROUGH TRADE
AMAZON
iTUNES
Rather wonderfully, the iTunes download comes with the video for single, Shaky, and a track by track video commentary by the band.
Hoping we still have your attention, OVER HERE is a little link to a recent interview with Simone, when he was visiting London a couple of weeks ago London as part if his solo tour.
Simone Felice has been busy thrilling UK audiences with his solo set, there are a few dates (and even fewer tickets) remaining. Details HERE. Read a review of his recent Bristol show HERE
Simone’s band The Duke & The King release their new album at the end of September, great press for the album is beginning to appear – including a four page feature in Uncut! The editor Allan Jones flew out to Woodstock to interview the band and loved the experience so much that he even wrote all about The Duke & The King in his editorial which you can read HERE
The new website for The Duke & The King is up and running and there you can find their wonderful new video. Go HERE
The Duke & The King tour dates have just been announced and are as follows:-
Sun 17-Oct-10 UK CAMBRIDGE HAYMAKERS
Mon 18-Oct-10 UK NOTTINGHAM GLEE CLUB
Tue 19-Oct-10 IRE DUBLIN ACADEMY 2
Thu 21-Oct-10 IRE KILKENNY THE SET THEATRE
Fri 22-Oct-10 IRE SLIGO SLIGO LIVE
Sat 23-Oct-10 IRE ROSCREA GRANTS DAMER CRT HOTEL
Sun 24-Oct-10 UK BELFAST EMPIRE
Mon 25-Oct-10 UK GLASGOW ORAN MOR
Wed 27-Oct-10 UK LONDON ELECTRIC BALLROOM
Thu 28-Oct-10 UK LEEDS WARDROBE
Fri 29-Oct-10 UK BRISTOL FLEECE & FIRKIN
Sun 31-Oct-10 UK MANCHESTER DEAF INSTITUTE
Tue 2-Nov-10 GER COLOGNE BLUE SHELL
Wed 3-Nov-10 GER BERLIN FRANNZ
Thu 4-Nov-10 GER HAMBURG VENUE TBC
Sat 6-Nov-10 FRA PARIS NOUVEAU CASINO
Simone Felice of The Duke & The King starts his UK solo tour this week. He will be appearing at the following;
Aug
18th – Winchester,The Railway
19th – Cardiff,Buffalo Bar
20th – Swansea,The Chattery
22nd – The Green Man Festival
24th – Bristol, St Bonaventures
25th – Nottingham, The Maze
26th – Newcastle, Cluny
27th – Edinburgh Festival
31st – Sheffield, Hee Haw Sessions
Sep
1st – Liverpool,Americana UK
2nd – London, St Pancras Old Church
Simone will now be performing all of these dates with no support, so no RG Morrison this time.
The Duke & The King will release their new album “Long Live The Duke & The King” on September 27th. We’ve got a fabtastic new video to show you people – more news very soon!
This August will mark the limited release of Simone Felice – Live From A Lonely Place. Recorded at home (in the barn) just a few weeks after his heart surgery, this retrospective collection includes songs from the earliest Felice Brother days, Duke & King favorites, and the traditional Celtic waltz ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ arranged by Simone. Naked as the day you were born, these stark recordings cut to the bone, revealing the essential brilliance of the songwriting, the poetry, like a ghost in the attic, like a wind at the door.
Tracklisting: If You Ever Get Famous, Don’t Wake The Scarecrow, Union Street, O’Gloria, The Morning I Get To Hell, Mercy, Your Belly In My Arms, Summer Morning Rain, All When We Were Young, The Devil Is Real, One More American Song, Wild Mountain Thyme
Available exclusively at www.simonefelice.com as well as Diverse Vinyl and all live Simone Felice shows.
Loose were devastated to learn that Ernesto De Pascale passed away in his hometown of Florence, Italy this weekend, aged 52. Ernesto was a great man. A real true music lover, he ran his own PR company – Il Popolo del Blues – who were responsible for some incredible Italian press for our bands The Felice Brothers, The Duke & The King, Danny and The Champs and The RG Morrison.
