A collection of 3 Duke Special releases, presented in a lovely slipcase and containing

CD1 - Duke Special Presents The Songs From Mother Courage and Her Children
An album of the music written and performed by Duke Special for Deborah Warner’s production of the Bertolt Brecht classic play, translated by Tony Kushner and staged at the National Theatre in London over two months in 2009 and starring Fiona Shaw.

CD2 - Huckleberry Finn EP.
Duke Special’s own take on the unfinished musical by Kurt Weill that draws inspiration, and creation from the novel “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. Duke is the first person ever to record this suite of songs.

CD3 - The Silent World of Hector Mann
This recording is a collection of songs inspired by Paul Auster’s Novel ‘The Book of Illusions’. The book largely centres on the main characters’ enlightenment into the world of Hector Mann and the silent movies he created. The CD contains 12 songs written by Duke Special and 11 of his friends, including Neil Hannon, Ed Harcourt, Matt Hales & Ben Castle and was recorded by legendary producer Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, USA.

Duke Special’s beautiful 2017 album ‘Hallow’ is entirely based on the poetry of the eminent Belfast poet, Michael Longley, who was once described by his friend Seamus Heaney as ‘a keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders’. Full of gentleness, honesty, mischief and love, peppered with a cast of artists, animals, flowers, friends and long forgotten soldiers. As ever, Duke Special is mining a new seam of inspiration, always trying to get to the bottom of what it means to be human.

‘Look Out Machines!’ is an epic album from a unique artist. It’s a grand gesture of a record that displays a rare and timeless quality and speaks with a refined eloquence.

Duke performs 7 songs from Look Out Machines! as a solo live set recorded at Windmill Lane in Dublin in 2015.

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Recorded at 5 different shows at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast in 2013, this CD and Bonus DVD features the Songs From The Deep Forest show with Chip Bailey & Ben Castle, The Big Band Show with a 7-piece band and the Harry Nilssen show featuring Hannah Peel.

Wooden Fingers Puppet Theatre Company, The Bank of Ideas, a banned Iranian children’s book about a fish, a pirate who wants to retire, a bar man who hears people’s stories whether he likes it or not, the human condition and late night conversations with friends on the roof of the ‘Oh Yeah’ building about your dreams are just a few of the ingredients to go into “Oh Pioneer”.

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‘Under the Dark Cloth’ is a collection of songs based on the photographs of Stieglitz, Steichen & Strand, first performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. After performing at a small festival in New York in March 2010, Duke was asked by Spectrum, an initiative of the museum, to visit them the following day. They wanted him to consider a collaboration with the Department of Photographs and an exhibition of the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand. The songs on this recording are the result of a year’s living with the images, reading about the photographers, their subjects, their equipment and the times in which they lived and worked. They were first performed in March 2011 in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A lovely collection of 16 B sides and rarities, including very special cover versions of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart and Dead or Alive’s You Spin Me Round

Duke covers 3 wonderful songs by Belfast-born Ruby Murray, one of the most popular singers in the UK in the 1950s (she made pop chart history in March 1955 by having five hits in the Top 20 in a single week!)

This CD is packaged with a set of unique note cards, designed by some of Depaul Ireland’s service users during art sessions.

This EP is Duke Special’s own take on the unfinished musical (originally by Kurt Weil) that draws inspiration, and creation from the novel “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain.

This recording is a collection of songs inspired by Paul Auster’s Novel ‘The Book of Illusions’.

The CD contains 12 songs written by Duke Special and 11 of his friends, and was recorded by legendary producer Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, USA.

A collection of Duke Special’s earliest 3 EPs, “Lucky Me” from 2002, “My Villain Heart” from 2004 and “Your Vandal” from 2005. And all brought together in a slipcase that will ensure they can be kept nice and neatly with each of their EP siblings.

An album of the music written and performed by Duke Special for Deborah Warner’s production of the Bertolt Brecht classic play, translated by Tony Kushner and staged at the National Theatre in London in 2009 and starring Fiona Shaw.

This is a BBC live recording of Duke Special and the Ulster Orchestra at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, recorded on 3rd May 2007 and broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster. The conductor was David Brophy and orchestral arrangements were by Andrew Skeet. Featuring orchestral versions of 10 songs from the album Songs From The Deep Forest, this CD was previously available as Disc 2 on the Double CD version of SFTDF which is no longer available on CD.

The second EP, launched in the Empire Music Hall in Belfast, features more of Duke’s poetic songwriting. Using a vast array of strange and unusual instruments, Duke again showed he could write words you could relate to and tunes you could sing along to.

The first ever Duke Special EP from 2002, this is a terrific collection of some of his earliest work, including a very early recording of the glorious “Freewheel”.

‘Your vandal’ was recorded in only five days, in the Belfast studio and features collaborations with old friends Iain Archer and Phil Wilkinson (The Amazing Pilots).