There are four bands with this name:

1. Features former Duran Duran… Read Full Bio ↴There are four bands with this name:

1. Features former Duran Duran members Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy. Cont. below

2. UK hardcore noise band comprised of ex-members of Stalingrad, Hard To Swallow, Doom and Extreme Noise Terror who split in January 2005.

3. A six piece Korean psychedelic soul group who released four albums between 1971 and 1977. Not much has been written in English about them, but they were an original and prolific act during the Korean psychedelic movement of the 1970s.

4. FROM NAPLES,ITALY COMES THAT EARBLEEDING MINIMALISTIC BLASPHEMIC GUITAR WALL BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH

1. The Devils is the name of an odd electronic pop project formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.

The first incarnation of the band Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist (along with John Taylor and Simon Colley). The band performed live for almost a year before Duffy left the band, moving on to a solo career and The Lilac Time. Duran Duran went on to super stardom, fame, and fortune with singer Simon Le Bon in the 1980s.

In the year 2000, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from those late 1970s shows. Shortly afterwards, Rhodes and Duffy met by chance at a fashion show, and began talking about the old music. They decided it might be fun to re-record some of those original, dark, art-school, pre-Le Bon Duran Duran songs.

A few months later they took to the studio, using vintage analog instruments but modern production techniques to recreate the early Duran Duran sound. The lyrics remained unchanged.

The resulting album, Dark Circles is an odd blend of past and future. The lyrics are dark and arty, often inspired by Duffy's esoteric reading habits; the music is quirky and futuristic, but it is the electronic, robotic-tinged future of 1979, breathed back into life more than twenty years later.

The band played live only a few times before both members returned to their normal careers in 2001.

4. LINE UP
Erica Toraldo : vocals and drums
Gianni Vessella : vocals and guitar

The Devils named themself after Ken Russel's super B-Movie 'the devils' from 1971, inspired by listening to Blues and Punk and many other Undergrund Bands (The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians etc) they formed their own band in 2015 in Neaples Italy, the Deep South of Italy. Gianni Vessella plays the Guitar and Sings and Erica Toraldo hits the Drums and Screams in the Microphone. In the Beginning they did Countless Shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the Dirtbombs who recorded their first Full Lenght album, the same Day Reverend Beat-Man from Voodoo Rhythm records was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the Label. This is a Huge Wall of Guitar Fuzz and Noise and Vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is No Bob Dylan poetry thats pure Evil and Lots of Fun !! Chainsaw Massacre Hysteric Earbleeding Vocals and the Drumer probably Eats Speed and Power Food for Breakfast, they are Dressed up as Preacher and Nun and Destroy every Stage that they can play on, they Are Hot and Wild and Very Loud !!!!!

Newhaven-Dieppe
The Devils Lyrics

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Everyone else has gone
But we remain a little longer
I know that i'm losing you & losing will never do
Do what you did for me our transparent history soon will fall apart
We're back at the start & we can't help it
You know why you're running Newhaven - Dieppe
You know that I'll always be on your step
But do you know why you're lonely tonight

Tonight
Tonight

Everyone else has gone
But we remain a little longer
Between the paperbacks sleep the insomniacs
On sheets of black again
With only yourself to blame
For loss of self control & how youre looking old & no wonder
You know why you're running Newhaven - Dieppe
You know that I'll always be on your step
But do you know why you're lonely tonight

Tonight
Tonight

Overall Meaning

The Devil's song "Newhaven-Dieppe" is a melancholic tune about the end of a relationship. The opening line "Everyone else has gone, but we remain a little longer" sets the scene of a couple who is holding onto the last strains of their relationship. The next line "I know that I'm losing you, and losing will never do" is the singer's acknowledgement that their relationship is at its end. However, despite his realization, he pleads for his partner to "Do what you did for me" as he fears that their "transparent history soon will fall apart." The couple is "back at the start" of their relationship, but it seems like they can't help it, as they are still "losing" and "lonely tonight."

As the song progresses, the lyrics turn darker. The singer reveals that "Between the paperbacks sleep the insomniacs on sheets of black again," which could symbolize that he is alone in his bed, unable to sleep, and is faced with the reality that his partner is no longer with him. He then blames himself for the "loss of self-control" and the fact that he is "looking old" despite his youth, which seems to indicate that he has been grappling with the end of the relationship for a long time. The song ends on an eerie note with the repetition of "Tonight" as if to drive the point home that this is truly the end of the road for the couple.

Line by Line Meaning

Everyone else has gone
The people who were here have left, but we are still here for a little while.

But we remain a little longer
We both are still here, and not yet ready to leave.

I know that i'm losing you & losing will never do
I am aware that I am losing your interest, and I cannot let that continue.

Do what you did for me our transparent history soon will fall apart
If you do what you did for me in the past, the facade of our seemingly perfect relationship will crumble.

We're back at the start & we can't help it
We have gone back to the beginning, and cannot prevent it from happening.

You know why you're running Newhaven - Dieppe
You are aware of the reason you are leaving, and taking the Newhaven - Dieppe route.

You know that I'll always be on your step
You are aware that I will always be following you closely.

But do you know why you're lonely tonight
Do you know the true reason for you feeling lonely tonight?

Everyone else has gone
The people who were here have left, but we are still here for a little while.

But we remain a little longer
We both are still here, and not yet ready to leave.

Between the paperbacks sleep the insomniacs
Amidst the books, those who cannot sleep can be found.

On sheets of black again
Once again, we find ourselves in a dark place full of sorrow and despair.

With only yourself to blame
You can only blame yourself for the current state of things.

For loss of self control & how youre looking old & no wonder
Your lack of discipline has led to your current state and appearance, which is not surprising.

You know why you're running Newhaven - Dieppe
You are aware of the reason you are leaving, and taking the Newhaven - Dieppe route.

You know that I'll always be on your step
You are aware that I will always be following you closely.

But do you know why you're lonely tonight
Do you know the true reason for you feeling lonely tonight?

Tonight
This very moment

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