Chris Duke and the Royals

About Chris Duke and the Royals

Chris Duke and The Royals are a five-piece party punk band hailing from the hard-edged ghettos of the placid, leafy suburbs of Sydney’s North-West. Chris Duke and The Royals are a five-piece party punk band that have been fervently described by promoters as “One of Sydney’s most punctual bands”.

Throughout the early 2000’s, the two brothers in the band, Ceeds and Peg Dukervanizski, were contracted as supplementary entertainers of a travelling Romanian circus / freak show as back-up plate-spinners. The nomadic life suited them, and through incessant practice they became the third and fifth best plate-spinners respectively in the Brasov-Harghita-Covasna tri-state municipality.
However, with the arrival of cartridge gaming in 2004 came the de-popularizing of the art of plate-spinning, and they left to seek greener pastures, quite literally, in the green pastures of Sydney’s North-West. It was here at their original Sydney residence that they first met an unassuming young vagrant who would occasionally sleep in their front yard, often conversing unintelligibly with their letterbox. They befriended the man, Yods, and together they formed a three-piece a capella street band / violent gang.

Their unfocused approach and tough-guy image was proving a hindrance to their musical progress however, and they set about fixing this whe