Duke Special Concert History

Duke Special (real name Peter Wilson; born on 4 January 1971 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Ireland songwriter and performer based in Belfast. A piano-based songwriter with a romantic style and a warm, distinctly accented voice, he has distinctive long dreadlocks, eyeliner and outfits he describes as "hobo chic".

Duke Special Tours & Concerts (Page 5)

Date Concert Venue Location
Nov 02, 2011
NI Music Awards 2011
Stiff Little Fingers / And So I Watch You from Afar / Duke Special / Cashier No.9 / The Japanese Popstars / General Fiasco / Mojo Fury
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Ulster Hall Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Sep 09, 2011
Duke Special / Bitter Ruin The Donkey Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 07, 2011
Duke Special / Bitter Ruin Glee Club Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Sep 06, 2011
Duke Special Brudenell Social Club Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Aug 26, 2011 –
Aug 29, 2011
Greenbelt Festival 2011
Mavis Staples / Listener / Billy Bragg / Idlewild / Duke Special / Rend Collective / Soweto Kinch / The Coopers / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / The Unthanks / Iain Archer / Gentleman's Dub Club / Kate Rusby / Show of Hands / Ahab / LZ7 / Martyn Joseph / Hope and Social / Luke Leighfield / Dweeb / Flight Brigade / Gordon Gano and the Ryan Brothers / Gordon Gano & The Ryans / Liam Blake / Largo Embargo Show all bands
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Cheltenham Racecourse Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for Aug 26, 2011
Mar 30, 2011
Duke Special / Eli Staples Jammin' Java Vienna, Virginia, United States
Dec 03, 2010
The Frames / Duke Special
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Paradiso Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Nov 23, 2010
Duke Special Joe's Pub New York, New York, United States
Sep 03, 2010 –
Sep 05, 2010
Electric Picnic 2010
Mumford & Sons / Two Door Cinema Club / Modest Mouse / The National / Massive Attack / Foals / Beach House / Hot Chip / Bonobo / Crystal Castles / Janelle Monáe / Robyn / Caribou / LCD Soundsystem / The Tallest Man On Earth / Neon Indian / Friendly Fires / Laura Marling / Mr. Scruff / Stars / Hurts / The New Pornographers / The Antlers / The Horrors / Fever Ray / Unkle / Steve Earle / The Bloody Beetroots / Villagers / Jónsi / Roxy Music / Fat Freddy's Drop / Wolf Parade / The Big Pink / Leftfield / Booka Shade / Freelance Whales / The Waterboys / Tiga / Public Image Ltd / Seasick Steve / The Fall / Imelda May / Here We Go Magic / The Low Anthem / Stornoway / Field Music / Memory Tapes / Laurent Garnier / Cymbals Eat Guitars / 808 state / Cymande / The Alarm / Chali 2na / These New Puritans / Chew Lips / Fang Island / Marc Almond / Steve Mason / Mountain Man (Vermont) / Gil Scott-Heron / Afro Celt Sound System / Philip Selway / Breakestra / Liquid Liquid / The Frames (IE) / Paul Brady / Duke Special / Edan / Fight Like Apes / Rubberbandits / Juan Atkins / Brendan Perry / Bad Lieutenant / Jón Þór Birgisson / The Riptide Movement / The Redneck Manifesto / Adrian Crowley / Monotonix / O Emperor / Brian Deady / Channel One / Bill Coleman / Delta Maid / Dublin Gospel Choir / BUS / Joe Echo / The Afro-celt Sound System / Messiah J & The Expert / Donal Dineen / Vengeance & the Panther Queen Show all bands
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Stradbally, Leinster, Ireland
Aug 20, 2010 –
Aug 22, 2010
Beautiful Days Festival 2010
James / Sub Focus / Newton Faulkner / Billy Bragg / The Wailers / British Sea Power / Easy Star All-Stars / Stornoway / Levellers / The Alarm / Fairport Convention / Dreadzone / Adam F / New Model Army / Krafty Kuts / The Slackers / The Aggrolites / John Cooper Clarke / Ned's Atomic Dustbin / James Yorkston / Bellowhead / Duke Special / Wilko Johnson / Babylon Circus / Citizen Fish / Show of Hands / African Head Charge / Dervish / Shooglenifty / Tankus the Henge / Thomas White / Destroyers / The Popes / 3 Daft Monkeys / Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends / Nick Harper / Lupen Crook / Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs / Ian King / Uiscedwr / Caned & Able / Peyoti for President Show all bands
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Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Aug 06, 2010 –
Aug 09, 2010
Tall Ships 2010 Festival 2010
Echo & the Bunnymen / Doves / Ocean Colour Scene / Stornoway / Seth Lakeman / C.W. Stoneking / The Unthanks / Duke Special / Goldheart Assembly / Exit Calm / Golden Animals / Standards / Sheelanagig / The Woven Project / Arcs and Trauma / Lost State of Dance / The White Negroes / Demon Summer / Atlantic in Transit / Runwells / Dave Moseley Band Show all bands
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Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
May 11, 2010
Duke Special / Foals
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O2 Academy Oxford Oxford, England, United Kingdom
May 08, 2010
Duke Special Rescue Rooms Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
May 04, 2010
Duke Special Oran Mor Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Apr 30, 2010 –
May 03, 2010
Live At Leeds 2010
Dolphins / Bleech / Just Handshakes (We're British) / Doll and the Kicks / The ABC Club / Islet / Ed Sheeran / Hail Animator / Blood Orange / Gallops / Young Fathers / Fool's Gold / Blood Red Shoes / Wolf Gang / Wild Beasts / Everything Everything / Darwin Deez / Gold Panda / Duke Special / Lone Wolf / Hadouken! / The Sunshine Underground / Is Tropical / Johnny Foreigner / Esben and the Witch / Frankie & The Heartstrings / Paul Thomas Saunders / Juffage / The Invisible / Sam Airey / Just Handshakes / Castrovalva / Egyptian Hip Hop / Kassidy / Goldheart Assembly / Gaggle / TEETH / Tubelord / Ellen and the Escapades / Middleman / Holy State / Wonderswan / The Sketches / Twisted Wheel / I Concur / Piskie Sits / Woodpigeon / Spectrals / Exlovers / North Atlantic Oscillation / Napoleon IIIrd / Twisted / The Dolphins / Loops Haunt / Plank / Telegraphs / Loose Talk Costs Lives / The Horn the Hunt / Male Bonding / Bear Mask / Team Modeliste / Pete Wareham and Matthew Bourne (as The Ugly Guys) / Blood Crips / Yonderboy / The Drums / Mariachi El Bronx / Lightspeed Champion / 65daysofstatic / The Twilight Sad / The Bronx / Mazes / Rolo Tomassi / Crystal Antlers / Sky Larkin Show all bands
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Various Venues Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Aug 28, 2009 –
Aug 31, 2009
Greenbelt Festival 2009
Röyksopp / Athlete / Foxes / Sway / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / AGENTS OF FUTURE / Tim Hughes / Duke Special / Cenacle / The Welcome Wagon / Karl Nova / The Apples / Hannah Scott & John Carden / Lorraine Ayensu / Arcane Roots / Bell Jar / Heather Andrews / Gabby Young & Other Animals / The Vocal Orchestra / Cathy Burton / Mundo Jazz / Shlomo / The Treehorns / Karen Grace / Quench / Eddy Johns / Foreign Slippers / Project Notion / Rhian Grundy / LZ7 / Sheppertones / Martyn Joseph / Martin Crowley / scenic routes / Crave / Kinch / The Sketches / Thebandwithnoname / Yfriday / Homecut / Samson & Delilah / Kat Flint / E.N.V / cornershop / Their Hearts Were Full of Spring / Danny Cope / Jon Brooks / The Cut Ups / Louise Golbey / Sharlene Hector / Conduit / Reem Kelani / Pantokrator / Yvonne Lyon / Ok Pilot / Miriam Jones / Bosh / Stu G / Sleeps in Oysters / Ellie Williams / Through Solace / The Austin Francis Connection / Kim Edgar / The Fancy Toys / Gareth Davies-jones / Jon Bilbrough / Lou Brown Show all bands
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Unknown venue Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
Jul 10, 2009 –
Jul 12, 2009
Oxegen 2009
Katy Perry / Lady Gaga / Calvin Harris / The Killers / Kings Of Leon / Jason Mraz / The Script / Florence + the Machine / M83 / Snow Patrol / Swedish House Mafia / Lily Allen / Blur / Passion Pit / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Nine Inch Nails / Foals / Keane / Bloc Party / Regina Spektor / Paolo Nutini / Crystal Castles / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / TV On the Radio / James Morrison / Pendulum / The Ting Tings / Pet Shop Boys / Elbow / Jane's Addiction / Mogwai / You Me At Six / of Montreal / Razorlight / Manic Street Preachers / White Lies / James / Friendly Fires / Doves / The Specials / Digitalism / Eagles of Death Metal / The Saturdays / Maxïmo Park / Squeeze / The Bloody Beetroots / Ladyhawke / Ocean Colour Scene / The Mars Volta / Glasvegas / Little Boots / Crookers / Hudson Mohawke / Tiga / Daniel Merriweather / God Is An Astronaut / Gary Go / Peter Doherty / Priscilla Ahn / Aeroplane / Hockey / Therapy? / And So I Watch You from Afar / Dreadzone / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / Tom Middleton / Miss Kittin & The Hacker / The Hours / Wallis Bird / Fight Like Apes / Republic Of Loose / Annie Mac / The Brilliant Things / ANGEL PIER / Duke Special / Jape / David Kitt / The Flaws / Fred / The Saw Doctors / RSAG Show all bands
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Oxegen 2009 Kildare, Ireland
May 11, 2009
Bell X1 / Duke Special 59 to 1 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
May 08, 2009
Bell X1 / Duke Special Prinzenbar Konzerte Disco Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 07, 2009
Bell X1 / Duke Special Levee Club Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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tags: Gig Poster - Live At Leeds 2010 on Apr 30, 2010 [881-small]
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Live At Leeds 2010
Apr 30 - May 3, 2010
 Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Duke Special on Jan 10, 2021 [979-small]

Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Duke Special on Jan 10, 2021 [980-small]

Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Duke Special
Jan 10, 2021
 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Splendour in Nottingham 2008 on Jul 19, 2008 [836-small]

Splendour in Nottingham 2008
Jul 19 - 20, 2008
 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Splendour in Nottingham 2008
Jul 19 - 20, 2008
 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Latitude Festival 2007 on Jul 13, 2007 [222-small]

Latitude Festival 2007
Jul 13 - 15, 2007
 Southwold, England, United Kingdom
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Duke Special / David Ford on Nov 24, 2023 [567-small]

Duke Special / David Ford
Nov 24, 2023
 Leek, England, United Kingdom
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Duke Special / David Ford on Nov 24, 2023 [568-small]

Duke Special / David Ford
Nov 24, 2023
 Leek, England, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Indie
Singer-Songwriter
Alternative
Irish
Irish Rock
Irish Singer-Songwriter
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Latest Setlist (11/07/2023):

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  2. No Cover Up
  3. Ballad of a Broken Man
  4. Everybody Wants a Little Something
  5. Tweed Coats
  6. I Let You Down
  7. Apple Jack
  8. Brixton Leaves
  9. Zebo's House
  10. No Cover Up
  11. Spiritual America
  12. The Minstrel Boy
  13. The Art of Living
  14. Diggin' an Early Grave
  15. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
  16. It Was Only a Dream
  17. Freewheel
  18. Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just In Time)
  19. Madam Pompadour
  20. Eyepennies
  22. Salvation Tambourine
  23. Portrait
  24. Wanda, Darling of the Jockey Club
  25. Flight of the Sparrow

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Concerts Per Year:

2023 13 concerts
2021 2 concerts
2020 7 concerts
2019 1 concert
2018 3 concerts
2017 3 concerts
2016 6 concerts
2015 15 concerts
2014 4 concerts
2013 8 concerts
2012 18 concerts
2011 6 concerts
2010 9 concerts
2009 19 concerts
2008 8 concerts
2007 37 concerts
2006 11 concerts
2005 2 concerts
2004 3 concerts
2003 1 concert

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Duke Special had?

Duke Special has had 176 concerts.

What genre is Duke Special?

Duke Special is most often considered to be Indie, Singer-Songwriter, Alternative, Irish, Irish Rock, and Irish Singer-Songwriter.

When was the last Duke Special concert?

The last Duke Special concert was on November 29, 2023 at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

What setlist does Duke Special play live?

The songs that Duke Special performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the November 07, 2023 concert at Suburbia in Southampton, England, United Kingdom:

  2. No Cover Up
  3. Ballad of a Broken Man
  4. Everybody Wants a Little Something
  5. Tweed Coats
  6. I Let You Down
  7. Apple Jack
  8. Brixton Leaves
  9. Zebo's House
  10. No Cover Up
  11. Spiritual America
  12. The Minstrel Boy
  13. The Art of Living
  14. Diggin' an Early Grave
  15. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
  16. It Was Only a Dream
  17. Freewheel
  18. Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just In Time)
  19. Madam Pompadour
  20. Eyepennies
  22. Salvation Tambourine
  23. Portrait
  24. Wanda, Darling of the Jockey Club
  25. Flight of the Sparrow

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