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Cricket referencing music does not occur often and cricket themed bands are even rarer, but soon it seems there will be more than one cricket concept album in existence.
The new album, Sticky Wickets, will be out in time for the Ashes, on July 1st. It follows 2009′s self titled release, also coinciding with the last Ashes series in England.
The Duckworth Lewis Method is an Irish band chiefly comprised of Thomas Walsh, of Pugwash, (as the WG Grace styled Duckworth) and Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy (the more modernly groomed Lewis).
Duckworth explained, “Lewis and myself felt it would be at least 20 years before the world would want another ‘Duckworth Lewis Method’ album. But it rains a lot in Ireland so we revised our prediction of 20 years by using the Duckworth Lewis Method and it turns out we only needed to wait 4 years.”
Cricket tragics and sadists alike may recognise on the album cover the famous streak at Lords on August 4, 1975, by a Navy cook named Michael Angelow. The first single from the album has been posted to Youtube and is titled “It’s Not Cricket“. The song lists a few of the things which cricket is not; bankers, cyclists and Vlad the Impaler to name but a few. If this is anything to go by, the new album promises more chamber-pop nonsense and cheeky lyrics.
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Cricket referencing music does not occur often and cricket themed bands are even rarer, but soon it seems there will be more than one cricket concept album in existence.
The new album, Sticky Wickets, will be out in time for the Ashes, on July 1st. It follows 2009′s self titled release, also coinciding with the last Ashes series in England.
The Duckworth Lewis Method is an Irish band chiefly comprised of Thomas Walsh, of Pugwash, (as the WG Grace styled Duckworth) and Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy (the more modernly groomed Lewis).
Duckworth explained, “Lewis and myself felt it would be at least 20 years before the world would want another ‘Duckworth Lewis Method’ album. But it rains a lot in Ireland so we revised our prediction of 20 years by using the Duckworth Lewis Method and it turns out we only needed to wait 4 years.”
Cricket tragics and sadists alike may recognise on the album cover the famous streak at Lords on August 4, 1975, by a Navy cook named Michael Angelow. The first single from the album has been posted to Youtube and is titled “It’s Not Cricket“. The song lists a few of the things which cricket is not; bankers, cyclists and Vlad the Impaler to name but a few. If this is anything to go by, the new album promises more chamber-pop nonsense and cheeky lyrics.
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