Headgear music

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Headgear
Country	Ireland
Years active	2001-present
Genres	Rock, Electronica
Labels	Marthadigs, Diamond Head
Members	Daragh Dukes Kevin Brew (live) Orla Dukes (live) Billy Mulqueen (live) Barra O'Toole (live) Osgar Dukes (live) Pat Shortt (live)

Headgear is the current musical project of the Dublin born musician and producer, Daragh Dukes, and several other collaborators and fellow producers. Musically, it can perhaps best be described as a collage of electronica and rock.

Where This Good Life Goes, a 6 track mini-album, was released in October 2002 on Diamond Head Recordings.

The eponymous album, Headgear, featuring the singles Singin' in The Drain and Halibut, was released in 2004, on Dukes' own Marthadigs label, to critical acclaim. Irish music magazine Hot Press called it "a beguiling marriage of bedsit melancholia with laboratory electronica and quite the chamber-pop pocket symphony".

Irish comedian Pat Shortt plays saxophone on the Headgear track Singin' in The Drain. The Cranberries' drummer, Fergal Lawler, played live with Headgear in Dublin in 2003.

In recent times, the music of Headgear has seen increasing public exposure due to plays on the popular Mystery Train radio show on RTÉ Radio 1, including a live set, and appearances on The View on RTÉ television.

Daragh is also currently taking part in the Wasted Youth Orchestra, a new musical project, with Rory Carlile. Live performances and an album are planned.

Headgear continue to make occasional live appearances, and a new album, named Flight Cases, is planned for release on April 28th 2007.