ADAM ANT'S OUR FINE AND DANDY IDOL.Byline: Edited by Billy Sloan MYSTERIOUS rockers Marmaduke Duke have revealed the inspiration for their cartoon look - pop's original dandy highwayman Highwayman, the loves an innkeeper’s daughter, who vainly tries to save him from capture. [Br. Poetry: Noyes “The Highwayman” ] See : Highwaymen Adam Ant. The duo - singers The Atmosphere and The Dragon - release their great new single Kid Gloves on February 16. The Duke is the alter ego of Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil and guitarist JP Reid of Sucioperro. Their new video - made by New York animators Transistor Studios - follows the surreal adventures of the Duke, who wears dandy-style clobber (jargon) clobber - To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack. . Simon - aka The Atmosphere - said: "The Atmosphere and The Dragon are second cousins whose great, great uncle was a gypsy duke so as a result we're very regal gentlemen." JP "The Dragon" Reid added: "We wanted something really joyous like Adam And The Ants. Their style and image stuck with me." The pair will play in full costume when they tour to promote second album Duke Pandemonium. The Dragon said: "The lyrics have strong emotional content but the look lets us inhabit a different mind space." CAPTION(S): Alter ego: The duo's dandy Duke; Hit: Simon with Biffy bif·fy also biff n. pl. bif·fies also biffs Upper Midwest 1. An outdoor toilet; an outhouse. 2. An indoor toilet. [Perhaps alteration of privy.] at T in the Park |
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