Life Stories For Minimum Wage

If you'd tried to track down Cuff The Duke a year and a half ago, you'd only have found a couple of kids (Jeff Peers and Wayne Petti, specifically) doing their absolute best to top the Beach Boy's Pet Sounds on Jeff's four-track. With the recording and the subsequent shows as a two-piece well-received, they decided to take the project to another level: With Brad Fudge and Paul Lowman coming on board to look after the rhythm section, Cuff The Duke came to life and made their debut in the band's current form at Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern early in the summer of 2000. Since then, Team Cuff The Duke has been busy. From playing shows with the likes of Versus, The Carnations, and Joel Plaskett to taking their ever-growing body of work to the studio to record their first full-length release, it has been a year of increasingly impressive accomplishments (peppered with the occasional broken-down van and faulty master recording).