The Devils is the name of an English

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 electronic

Electronic music

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 pop

Pop music

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 band, formed by Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...

 and Stephen Duffy

Stephen Duffy

Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...

.

The first incarnation of Duran Duran

Duran Duran

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 in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist, John Taylor

Nigel John Taylor

John Taylor is an English musician who is best known as the bass guitarist and co-founder of pop rock band Duran Duran....

 on guitar and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist and bassist (along with Simon Colley). This lineup performed live for almost a year before Duffy and Colley left the band.

Duffy moved on to a solo career and The Lilac Time

The Lilac Time

The Lilac Time is a British alternative rock band that was originally formed in Herefordshire, England by Stephen Duffy, his brother Nick Duffy and their friend Michael Weston in 1986. The band's name was taken from a line in the Nick Drake song "River Man."...

, and Duran Duran eventually went on to fame with drummer Roger Taylor, guitarist Andy Taylor

Andy Taylor (guitarist)

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 and singer Simon Le Bon

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.

In 1999, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from a 1979 show. 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.

Dark Circles

The band played live only two times, in London (19 November 2002), and Cologne (17 February 2003), before both members returned to their normal careers.

In early June 2008, Rhodes and Duffy were interviewed by the music journalist Pete Paphides for BBC Radio 4

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, and relived the whole Dark Circles experience. Duffy also publicly stated through his website that a Devils DVD could be released later.

CD: TPCD001 (UK, US)

1. "Memory Palaces" - 2:27
2. "Big Store" - 5:50
3. "Dark Circles" - 3:09
4. "Signals In Smoke" - 4:03
5. "Come Alive" - 4:10
6. "Hawks Do Not Share" - 4:51
7. "Newhaven-Dieppe" - 3:36
8. "World Exclusive" - 3:28
9. "Aztec Moon" - 4:26
10. "Lost Decade" - 4:09
11. "Barbarellas" - 4:49
12. "The Tinsel Ritual" - 3:14

CD: CTCR-18062 (Japan, Avex Inc.)

1. "Memory Palaces"
2. "Big Store"
3. "Dark Circles"
4. "Signals In Smoke"
5. "Come Alive"
6. "Hawks Do Not Share"
7. "Newhaven-Dieppe"
8. "World Exclusive"
9. "Aztec Moon"
10. "Lost Decade"
11. "Barbarellas"
12. "The Tinsel Ritual"
13. "Come Alive (Tiga Swear Lies Remix)" (bonus track) - 6:14

Track 13 also appeared on Headman Dance Modern, Eskimo Records, Belgium (CD 541416 501230, 2xLP 541416 501231, released 2004).

CD: TPCD7 (UK, 2004 reissue)

1. "Memory Palaces"
2. "Big Store"
3. "Dark Circles"
4. "Signals In Smoke"
5. "Come Alive"
6. "Hawks Do Not Share"
7. "Newhaven-Dieppe"
8. "World Exclusive"
9. "Aztec Moon"
10. "Lost Decade"
11. "Barbarellas"
12. "The Tinsel Ritual"

Promotional releases

• "Dark Circles" (UK radio promo, 1 track only. Ld promotions, cd acetate)
• "Dark Circles" (UK album promo with Dark Circles, Big Store, Come Alive, Newhaven-Dieppe. Ld promotions)
• "Dark Circles" (UK album promo, 12 tracks, Universal BC3606)

Promo videos

• "The Devils EPK" - produced by Stephen Duffy, edited by Gary Oldknow, graphics by Andrew Day
• "Dark Circles" (track) - directed and produced by Gary Oldknow
• "Hawks Don't Share" - directed by Nick Rhodes, produced by Gary Oldknow
• "Big Store" - produced by Gary Oldknow

Personnel

• Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes
  Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...
  
   - keyboards and synthesizer
• Stephen Duffy
  Stephen Duffy
  Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...
  
   - vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards & synthesizer
• Mark Tinley
  Mark Tinley
  Mark Ty-Wharton is a British author, composer and philosophical speaker who specialises in presentations using sound art....
  
   - additional programming, amorphic resonances
• Ben Georgiades - drums, loops and assistance
• Sally Boyden - vocals (tracks 2, 3, 8, 10 & 11)
• Evie - vocals (tracks 2, 3 & 8)

Also credited:

• Engineered by Andy Strange assisted by Adam Noble at Air Studios, London
• Mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis
• Art & design: Andrew Day
• Photograph of The Devils: Retts Wood
• Make up: Paola Recabarren

External links

• Duran Duran official website
• Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time official website
• Fullfill Music