Headgear is a musical project of the

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-born musician and producer Daragh Dukes and several other collaborators and fellow producers. Musically, it can perhaps best be described as a collage of

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. ''Where This Good Life Goes'', a 6 track mini-album, was released in October 2002 on Diamond Head Recordings. The eponymous album, ''Headgear'', featuring the singles ''Singin' in The Drain'' and ''Halibut'', was released in 2004, on Dukes' own Marthadigs label, to critical acclaim. Irish music magazine

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called it "''a beguiling marriage of bedsit melancholia with laboratory electronica and quite the chamber-pop pocket symphony''". The album ''Flight Cases'' was released in early 2007, including ''Harry Truman'' and ''Mister Petit'' both of which featured on prominent ''best of 2007'' Irish song lists. Irish

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plays saxophone on the ''Headgear'' track ''Singin' in The Drain''.

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' drummer, Fergal Lawler, played live with Headgear in Dublin in 2003. The music of Headgear saw increasing public exposure due to plays on the popular ''Mystery Train'' radio show on

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, including a live set, and appearances on ''The View'' on

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. Dukes also took part in the ''Wasted Youth Orchestra'' with Rory Carlile. Their song ''A Letter from Saint Jude'' featured on the album Music from and Inspired by

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. He works as a composer for hire working mainly on documentary features from his Limerick studio a

Dukes also uses the pseudonym 'Asylum Speakers'. Headgear re-emerged in 2021 with Omphalos Pt.1.

External links

Interview with Daragh Dukes on EventGuide.ie

References

*Headgear on IUMA (now defunct)
The Cranberries drummer plays with ''Headgear'' (2003)
Musical groups from Limerick (city) {{Europe-band-stub