Based in the heart of the English middle lands (well... a little bit East o… Read Full Bio ↴Based in the heart of the English middle lands (well... a little bit East of that perhaps) Grande Duke play an an eclectic mixture of post rock, jazz, and math. The band was formed in 2007, or maybe 2008, by Sean and Rich (ex- felusia end) and Bazz (beyond this point are monsters)... Rich recently relocated to New Zealand, so the fantastic Chris Tree (ex-Aqua Vista, Chris Martin) was drafted in to play the old geetar'.

Grande Duke gatecrash their way into the instrumental party with a gleeful kitchen sink approach [...] a broad stew that recalls post-rock, Krautrock and just plain old rock at various junctures...
ROCKSOUND

Rolling base lines, instrumental tunes that amble along, smooth yet slightly discordant, slightly jazzy, slightly post rock, tracks that sound like gentle genre-crossing jams that groove, that touch on blues [...] a fine fine progressive post-rock flavoured jazz beast that you need to let breathe, expand and reveal itself...
ORGAN

Grande Duke are masters of finding a groove...
DIE SHELLSUIT DIE

Genres and time signatures are cheerfully gobbled up in one bar and spat out in the next with a complete disregard for any sense of convention. [...]Absolutely bloody bonkers. Most people will hate it. I kind of like it.
TASTY FANZINE