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Lead Singer Of THE DUEL Catches Up With Will Sid Smith For Punk Globe Magazine

Tara Rez is the charismatic lead singer with The Duel, my favorite Punk Rock band, as well as being a very supportive and giving human being. One of the hardest working bands I know, The Duel are very active both on the UK scene and in Europe so I was really pleased when Tara agreed to interrupt her busy schedule to speak with me for Punk Globe.

Punk Globe:

First Tara, can I thank you again for talking to Punk Globe.

TARA REZ:

Thanks Will 🙂

Punk Globe:

Its been quite a long time since you last spoke to our readers and you’ve released two albums since then. How were they received?

TARA REZ:

Really well I think! ! And its been brilliant to get positive feedback and support from fans online, at the gigs and we got a lot of good write-ups from fanzines .. It all means a lot to us ! – we re really happy that we can make music and people like what we do 🙂

Punk Globe:

I read somewhere that your second album was very much a DIY recording. In what ways have you developed your sound since then?

TARA REZ:

Since then I think our self recording/producing skills has been improving. It’s meant we can ‘play’ more in the studio, rather than getting bogged down with technical stuff. The first official album released ‘Lets Finish What We Started’ was produced by Pat Collier in his studios. By the time we came to do the 2nd album and after loads of gigging up down, here there every where- we were too broke to go into a pro studio again, there wasn’t much of a music industry around to help so we just did it however we could in our own small studio then released it out to the world! Wort’s and all! Kinda exciting it being all so raw. Just like some of the early punk recordings .

Punk Globe:

Your latest album, “Soundtrack to the End of The World” is different, tell us about it and how it came about.

TARA REZ:

We were just writing for fun and we’d never done a concept album before, so we thought we d have a go, then we couldn’t leave it alone til it was done

Punk Globe:

Has more recording experience influenced your live performance at all?

TARA REZ:

Yes I guess it has ! Never thought of it like that. Actually I think its more the other way round.

Punk Globe:

The Duel has been together some 10 years now, what’s the current line-up?

TARA REZ:

Tara Rez – VOX
Andy Thierum – Keys
Chris McDougall – Bass
Thanos Oscar Pap – Guitars
Pumpy – Drums

Punk Globe:

You and Andy Thierum make a great songwriting team, have you been working with anyone else??

TARA REZ:

Thank you for saying! Yes we have collaborated with friends on a couple of various tracks and Chris our bass player has written a few songs with us.

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