Marmaduke Dando is the bard of disempire, a crooner of morose ballads and fiery diatribes, often eliciting references to The Bad Seeds, Roxy Music, and Scott Walker. He writes about the horrors of the modern world, and barks back at it with his 5 piece organ-fuelled band. Born and bred from genuine pirate stock in Portsmouth, England, he moved to London to slog his guts out in iniquitous music halls and shame inducing conference calls. Now recently fled the city for the desolate volcanic vistas of the island of Lanzarote. Of his music, Steve Lamacq, BBC6 Music, has said it's "...distinctively haunting...", and Charlie Ashcroft, Artrocker, like "...poetry in motion...". His songs have been set to films, woven into a seminal Secret Cinema event, and played in the Houses of Parliament. He releases his third album come October 2015, entitled 'Where The Wasteland Ends'.
January 26, 2016
It’s with great pleasure I can finally announce that my third album ‘Where the Wasteland Ends’ is now released. It’s available on CD, as a digital download, or you can stream it on Spotify. It’s also up on iTunes if that’s your thing. The best deal for me though is if you buy the download […]
January 11, 2016
Thank you Bowie. Your music has been at the heart of some of the most memorable moments in my life. I discovered Young Americans in my parent’s attic when I was a kid and didn’t know what to make of it. I found it so shocking. The image and the sounds couldn’t have been further […]
October 7, 2015
My dear friends, It’s with much excitement that I tell you that the latest and third album is almost ready to be released. The band and I are currently sharpening up in rehearsals preparing for a modest launch party to be held next week, Wednesday October 14th, 2015, at Power Lunches in Dalston, London. Supporting […]
August 3, 2015
Dear friends, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus for the last year as you may have noticed. Moving out of England to the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. It’s been splendid and trying in ways I had not expected, but I’ll save the details of that for the pub. Through out […]
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