Duffy Live DVD - Is it Official?

The saga continues - read my earlier blogpost about it.

I was sent this photo from Duffysmate (Massive thanks Duffysmate!) who procured a copy from an Amazon marketplace seller for under a tenner. Make sure you guys don't get ripped off and pay £17+ for this (which an ebay seller is trying to get for it) as we still aren't sure whether it is official or not.
Click the photo for a larger image.

Duffysmate says:

I have received the Japan DVD and I have to say that both the visual and audio quality are superb. From the credits it looks like the production has been done by a small Japanese company, maybe licensed by Universal Group. Duffy's performance is one of the best I have seen her give. Certainly worth buying in my opinion, the box contains a picture disc and flyer with the same pic as the front cover and a track listing.

Personally I'm a happy with the version which was recorded from Japanese TV so I'm giving this one a miss for now....

Please leave a comment if you have any opinions or info about whether this DVD is official.

Merry Christmas Duffy fans!

Duffy Diary Photos - Looking back to 2008

Joy posted photos of the Guardian's Feb 2008 Duffy Diary article featuring some photos. You can still read the Duffy Diary article here or here.

But the reason I'm posting is that Ellegirl used these same photos and more similar photos way back in 2008 also. I linked to it on my blog way back in May 2008 but I figured I'd post these photos so that all can see them, now that Duffy fans are talking about them on Joy's blog....

Joy's blog is mainly from a fashion perspective and she features photos of magazine articles and mainly stuff about Duffy's outfits etc. Keep up the good work Joy!

Duffy Dumps Manager?

As reported today by the Daily Star - whether or not it is true it seems to be already spreading like wildfire throughout the internet "news".

DUFFY SACKS MANAGER

Daily Star, Dec 23rd 2009

MEGA-selling Duffy has sacked the manager who guided her to stardom.

Jeannette Lee signed the Welsh star, 25, when she was a struggling waitress.

One insider told me: “Duffy claims Lee wanted her to do cheesy TV shows, when Duffy wants her career to be just about her music.”

Duffy Live in Japan DVD

Despite the fact that there are a ton of links out there to webshops from Denmark and other countries for this DVD please proceed with caution.

The exact same concert (from the Liquid Room in Tokyo) was aired in Japan last December. Since then the bootleg dvd of this concert has been freely (or "swapably") available amoungst the dvd bootlegging community. I haven't checked it yet (busy Christmas time for my business)

Please be aware that some have said this is available on Amazon. It's not available officially through Amazon, it is only offered by Amazon marketplace sellers i.e. anyone could have added the entry on Amazon.

I don't know for sure whether this is a fake, but I suspect it is because of a number of reasons:

1) The entire DVD contents have been freely available on the net since this October 2008 concert was aired on Japanese TV in December 2008.
2) The cover photo is freely obtainable on the net since it is from the 2007 SPIN magazine photoshoot. Scans of that magazine article and photos are available on the net.
3) There is no Duffy logo and no (typically black and white) Duffy signature on it.
4) We've had no advertising for this item in the UK. The UK is the biggest market for a Duffy DVD because we've made Duffy a top 10 artists here so many times already.
5) No mention of this item on the official Duffy websites (not that I have found as yet aanyway, but if you find someonething do let me know).
6) No hmv or amazon.co.uk official listing for this release (akthough if it was to be a non-UK release there probably wouldn't be one anyway).


On the otherhand there are only a few reasons to believe it is genuine:
1) The time is ripe for a Duffy live release, especially before Christmas.
2) The cover appears to have a barcode which when searched on google brings up listings from Danish online music shops.
3) The release date seems to be quoted as 23rd Nov or 30th Dec.



Please do keep me posted if you find anything to prove/disprove it.


Merry Christmas!

New Duffy LIVE EP (TLA)

Buy it from iTunes here.

	Tracklist:
1.	Warwick Avenue (Live At the Theater of Living Arts)
2.	Syrup & Honey (Live At the Theater of Living Arts)
3.	Rockferry (Live At the Theater of Living Arts)
4.	Mercy (Live At the Theater of Living Arts)
5.	Hanging On Too Long (Live At the Theater of Living Arts)

I haven't had a listen of this yet as I am unable to find it on UK iTunes (so it may be a US only release). Let me know if you find it on other iTunes sites....

It's always good to get a new Duffy release, but looking at the setlist it's a shame that they stuck with the album tracks (in fact its a shame there's no Stepping Stone as that one has to be my favourite) as the recording was from this gig in Philadelphia back in August 2008, and the original setlist was this:

Syrup & Honey
Rockferry
Hanging on Too Long
Serious
Breaking My Own Heart
Warwich Avenue
Cry To Me
Delayed Devotion
Stepping Stone
Oh Boy
Tomorrow
Mercy

Scared
Distant Dreamer

VV Brown slags off Duffy again to a reporter

This time to a Welsh reporter.... for a "very intelligent" person who turned down a place at Oxford, VV doesn't show much genius by slagging off Duffy on her home ground (i.e. to a reporter for a Welsh newspaper just before she plays a gig @ Clwb Ifor Bach tonight - I wouldn't be surprised if tickets were still available...)

Here's the article. But to save you the trouble of reading all about VV Brown I'll give you the key snippets:

VV Brown dumped a major record label because they wanted to manipulate her. She wonders aloud to Gavin Allen if Duffy could have done the same.

[...]

“I love Amy Winehouse,” she says.

“She is an amazing songwriter who reveals herself honestly in songs about her life. With Duffy it’s a bit like a record company got hold of a girl after the Amy Winehouse thing, got a lot of people to write soul songs for her, packaged her up and sold millions of records.

But one thing us Duffy fans will agree wholeheartedly with is VV Brown's opinion that Duffy and Winehouse are "pole apart". Yeah VV, you're not wrong there.



Finally, another "intelligent" insight VV provides:

“If [the record label] had made me like Duffy I think I would have died.”

Yeah, I agree: they would have had one hell of a job on their hands had they attempted such a feat.

Where is this photo of Duffy from? CLOSED

UPDATE: Of course! It was from the 2008 Spirit Of Life Award Dinner on October 15 where she covered "I Second That Emotion" from Doug Morris. Succo provides this link, for which he deserves muchos cudos. :-)

Here's the article about it I remember reading at the time...

That was fun. Perhaps we should do it again!


The date said 15th Oct 2008 but that could be a red herring. My gut feeling is a private showcase that at the time we didn't hear much about but I suppose it could have been a tv appearance with a snazzy outfit like that.

Answers on postcard... o actually, since Royal Mail are striking left right and centre, (but the BBC is BIZARRELY NOT TELLING ANYONE ABOUT IT - I sent a first class large letter to London Sept 26th and they got it yesterday!) you'd better leave a comment instead.

Katy Brand mocks Duffy - funny or not? what do you think?

Update - Duffy in new Welsh movie "Patagonia"

As reported earlier this year, Duffy has a role as a character called "Sissy" in Welsh-language movie "Patagonia". The movie has now moved into post-production so details on its release date will possibly be available by the end of year.


There is now a brief synopsis of the movie from here:

A contemporary double road movie set in Wales and Argentina. One of the film's narratives follows an old Patagonian lady (Cerys) and her neurotic neighbour's son (Alejandro) though Wales as they search for her mother's farm. The other story features the journey of a thirty-something Welsh couple (Rhys and Gwen) with fertility problems as they travel through Welsh Patagonia on a photographic trip. The language of the film is mainly Welsh and Spanish.

German Style Magazine - Thanks to Succo!

Succo did this scan! Click it for a larger image. It's from the current october issue of the German "IN" magazine. It's about the perfect hairstyle for an individual face and they praise Duffy for getting it right.

Duffy's red Miu Miu shoes up for Charity Auction!

Duffy's shoes are currently being auction for charity - 100% of the final auction price will go to the Group B Strep Support charity. Click here to see the item on ebay and go and bid bid bid for this good cause. Details about the charity:

Group B Strep Support
About this charity:
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is the UK's most common life-threatening infection in newborn babies. Without preventative medicine, GBS infects approximately 700 babies annually - 75 die and 40 survivors suffer long-term problems. Yet most GBS infections are preventable by offering higher-risk women antibiotics in labour. GBSS needs funds to inform pregnant women and their health professionals how to do this ... and save tiny lives.

A couple of articles...

There is this nice article about Duffy on Variety.com (thanks for the heads up!)

And also there is this silly article about Duffy in the Daily Star (that oh-so-relaible source of information). Thanks to Succo's early morning email I have known about this all day and was thinking whether to post it or not. So all I'm doing is posting the link for you to check out if you really want to. But don't believe a word of it. Duffy would have to be drunk, stupid or having a laugh to behave that way and tell her story to a not-so-innocent cab driver, so take it with a pinch of salt.

Here is the German interview that succo found

duffy shows her feet in a German interview
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