Video: The Duke and The King - If You Ever Get Famous

It's not quite the Felice Brothers, but it's the next best thing. Simone Felice's sideproject, the Duke and the King will be playing Dublin's Academy2 on April 30th. They released the excellent album Nothing Gold Can Stay last year, and this is a great chance to catch them in a small venue for a minimal fee. Tickets are priced €12.50 and are on sale tomorrow. Watch 'If You Ever Get Famous':

Death Cab for Cutie via Cat Stevens from Brooklyn. What could possibly go wrong? Oh, right... Smiley. That's the one, upsettingly impotent word that comes to mind whenever I consider "Nothing Gold Can Stay". It's there, in the cross between frothy folk and bluesy Americana, in Simone Felice's sun-soaked vocal chords, and most of all in his knack for rather silly poetics (more of which later). Incidentally, one piece of promo material I received with The Duke and the King's debut declared these "twelve songs for summer". Summer. Sunny. Happy. Smiley....

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