2MCE FM Alt.Eighties: Artist Selection – The Dukes of Stratosphere
21 May, 2025
In 1985 and again in ‘87, a quartet of musicians masquerading under the names of Sir John Johns, The Red Curtain, Lord Cornelius Plum and E. I. E. I. Owen, undertook two trips back through history.
The band was called The Dukes of Stratosphere but underneath the masquerade was UK post-punk band XTC.
This week on Alt.Eighties an Artist Profile steeped in “altered states of consciousness” journeys through the two albums released by the ‘Dukes”
