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Duck Thieves

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Duck Thieves formed in 2014 when front man Justin Wing Chung Hui asked his fellow band mate Michelle Bailey-Le Long and ex-band mate Cait Buckley to join him on a misadventure of a lifetime.

They are described as Indie Panto Pop with a slice of punk performance art thrown in. The two newest members Jen Haigh and Steven Shelly joined them recently and they continue to bring songs that are inspired by personal story telling, feminism, standing up to racism and B-Movies.

They have released 4 EPs on local bedroom indie labels, have garnered airplay on BBC introducing Coventry and Warwickshire, been marked out as best support act in by Birmingham Live and have played on the main stages of Coventry Pride and Godiva Festival.

The band’s name comes from the first film ever to be shot in Hong Kong called ‘Stealing a Roasted Duck’ (偷燒鴨). Due to the Japanese destroying film to make bombs with nitrate during the occupation, no copy of the film exists. There is doubt to whether the film even actually existed.