The eccen­tric Duke Spe­cial now fea­tures as a new gallery on JonathanBourke.Com. This is a repost of an ear­lier Flickr based Gallery as I slowly migrate my port­fo­lio con­tent to my own web­site. In this gallery, I try to cap­ture the eccen­tric­ity, the motion, and the colour of Dukes’ per­for­mance at Dolans that night. Some of the images could be per­ceived as being blurred… but for me this accu­rately reflects the feel­ing of the gig.

Back when I orig­i­nally posted this I said:

Duke Spe­cial wowed the mid­week crowds at Dolans Ware­house in Lim­er­ick on Tues­day 9th of Decem­ber. This time he had his band with him, and the per­cus­sion­ist, “Tem­per­ance Soci­ety”, entranced peo­ple with clat­ter­ing, bang­ing, shak­ing, twist­ing, roar­ing, scrap­ing, and more. He was bril­liant. It was a poignant night for Mary and I, as it will be our last con­cert in Dolans for some time…

In some ways, “Tem­per­ance Soci­ety” stole the show, using every­thing from pots and pans, assorted sticks and what­not to cre­ate an eclec­tic sound. From Wikipedia:

He is most often accom­pa­nied by per­cus­sion­ist “Tem­per­ance Soci­ety” Chip Bai­ley, who plays cheese graters and egg whisks, a Stumpf fid­dle and a Shirdi drone box, as well as the more typ­i­cal drums and cymbals.