Headgear (band)

Headgear
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Background information
Years active	2001-present
Members	Darragh Dukes Kevin Brew (live) Orla Dukes (live) Billy Mulqueen (live) Barra O'Toole (live) Emre Ramazanoglu (live) Pat Shortt (live)

Headgear is the current musical project of the Dublin born musician and producer, Daragh Dukes, and several other collaborators and fellow producers. Musically, it can best be described as a collage of folk, electronica and rock.

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 Hot Press called it "a beguiling marriage of bedsit melancholia with laboratory electronica and quite the chamber-pop pocket symphony".

Irish comedian Pat Shortt plays saxophone on the Headgear track Singin' in The Drain. The Cranberries' drummer, Fergal Lawler, played live with Headgear in Dublin in 2003.

In recent times, the music of Headgear has seen increasing public exposure due to plays on the popular Mystery Train radio show on RTÉ Radio 1, including a live set, and appearances on The View on RTÉ television.

Headgear continue to make occasional live appearances, and a new album, named Flight Cases, is planned for a Summer 2006 release.

External links

• Headgear official website
• Headgear perform on RTÉ's "The View
• Music Video for Singin' in The Drain

Sources

• Headgear on IUMA
• The Cranberries drummer plays with Headgear (2003)