(I’m Gonna Follow Your) STAR TRAIL / BOOM BOOM / Red Wizard Needs Food...Badly!!! / Bad Vegetarian

ART/GOES/POP

A messily lo-fi three piece with a fondness for dressing up and banging out infectious leftfield pop tunes, Duloks are a band making good use of cheap casio keyboards and battered drum machines.

(I’M GONNA FOLLOW YOUR) STAR TRAIL is a catchy little number just the right side of novelty hit, sugar coated melodies brush up against dinky keyboard effects and tribal drumbeats; singer Mira letting out an excitable yelp that comes somewhere between Peaches and Manda Rin.  Elsewhere here, Duloks continue to bash out their Bis meets Peaches meets the Slits pop on the tasty BOOM BOOM and RED WIZARD NEEDS FOOD...BADLY!!!, more lo-fi pop madness that leaves you with warm fuzzy feelings.

Bringing some fun and madness back to the pop scene, Duloks are a breath of fresh air and with (I’M GONNA FOLLOW YOUR) STAR TRAIL make an arresting and fresh sounding noise.

The Duloks were formed in January 2005 when disenfranchised Canadian, Mar Sellars (of CBC fame!) arrived to the British Isles bereft of her alma mater band The Ewoks.

After settling into the environs of East London, Mar acquired a set of Roland V electric drums and yearned to be in a band again. She started a lonely Duloks MySpace site in November 2005 and three months later enlisted Alice her trusty housemate to play keys. The Duloks MySpace now had TWO friends! (Three if you count Tom).

With lumbering inevitability MySpace contrived to play another role in the band's inception when Mar advertised for a "female singer with balls" and lo! Her old Coolgrrrls.com compadre Mira Manga answered. Henceforth these three girlies became The Duloks!!!

Duloks played their first show in Mar's living room as part of her 25th Nerds & Jocks themed birthday party. The show was shambolic but beautiful and so The Duloks were born!!

The Duloks were speedily booked for other London shows after fun loving promoters saw pics from the party and booked them on the strength of their outfits. (Alice (Nerd) and Mira & Mar (Jocks)) Various Ladyfests around Great Britain clamoured to book the girlie trio and the Duloks rejoiced and rushed to play any venue that would entertain their quirly E.R.I.C. (indie rock comedy electro) stylings.

Just before Christmas 2005 Alice Dulok hung up her nerd glasses and left to devote more time to her band Artha & Martha and her monthly indie-disco Spiral Scratch. Mar & Mira Dulok hastily recruited teeniest ever Dulok, Mina by growing her from a crystal and took the band's average height down to 3'7"

At each show The Duloks endeavour to dress to impress and bewilder, if not in their regular kit they will appear as a themed unit. Various dress ups to date include The Rolling Stones (Mira - Mick, Mar - Keef, Alice - Marianne Faithful / School children / Mariners (including a mermaid, lifeguard and swimmer!) / Cowboys & Indians / Space Aliens / Rockers...the list is endless!

As Dulok momentum gathered, good things fell from the sky on them..

* Radio One DJ's Huw Stephens and Rob Da Bank spun Dulok demos as did Sir John Kennedy on Xfm! 

* Art Goes Pop offered the girls a single deal and are releasing "(I'm Gonna Follow Your) Star Trail" backed with "Boom! Boom! (Mormon Lovin' Momma)" 

* Ken Stringfellow jumped on board as Duloks producer extraordinaire (wearing the uniform and EVERYTHING) 

* Most recently a club night held on a boat in Toulouse, France summoned the girls to come and play their first European show in January 2007…not bad for a band barely a year old!

At time of writing of this bio, the Dulok girls are preparing for their year anniversary show (and Mar Duloks 26th birthday too!) and are looking to raise funds to fly the three of them to Singapore, where they've been invited to play at Baybeats Festival! Watch this space; The Duloks want to play a front room near you!!!

Mira

Mar

Amina

(I’M GONNA FOLLOW YOUR) STAR TRAIL (Art/Goes/Pop>2007)

(I’m Gonna Follow Your) STAR TRAIL

BOOM BOOM

Red Wizard Needs Food...Badly!!!

Bad Vegetarian

The Duloks>www.duloks.com

The Slits

Bis

Peaches