Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

" Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake ,' it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

Despite the departure of Stevie Nicks, Christine remained loyal to Mick Fleetwood and her former husband, recording five songs for the band's 1995 effort Time.

Despite having taken several years off from recording, Sir Mix-a-Lot is still known to mix frequently.

Despite only recording 12 home runs, the Greys led the league with 137 stolen bases.

Despite his arrival, the team struggled in 1969 – 70 recording only 17 wins — the fewest in franchise history ( as of completion of the 2010 – 11 season — and set the NHL team record for most ties ( 24 ).

Despite their name, however, practice sets are used not only by beginning players but also by some advanced players when they wish to play just the chanter with other musicians, either live or in recording sessions.

Despite serious illness necessitating several operations, he was very productive as a critic and painter, and produced a book of poems, One-Way Song, in 1933 ( the link below gives access to a recording of him reading an extract ).

Despite Sheen's status as group leader, by the time the trio entered the recording studio, Spector was often using Love as the group's primary vocalist.

Despite several severe interruptions in her career, Francis is still active as a recording and performing artist ( as of November 2011 ).

Despite having problems with manager Paul Ahern, being caught in the middle of a fight between Ahern and his business partner Charles McKenzie, and doing most of the recording work alone, Scholz completed the second Boston album two years after the debut album's release.

Despite the statement made by Bentley about entering the studio in April, he noted that the recording date was now May 1.

Despite touring constantly and recording albums with efficiency, the duo could not find any pop success for a number of reasons, mainly because of the popularity of the disco genre.

Despite recording a second Peel Session in March 1975 RCA dropped the band, so they were reduced to issuing an EP, Jumpin on the French label Skydog.

Despite the Halo Benders ' critical and commercial success, Martsch's commitment to touring with Built To Spill prevented the band from touring and recording more.

Despite earlier reports that the band would begin recording their next studio album by 2008, Social Distortion took a hiatus from touring and recording, when Ness was on tour with his solo band which is composed of two current members of Social Distortion ; Brent Harding and Jonny Wickersham.

Despite the grim prognosis, she continued recording and touring.

Despite major personnel changes, they are still touring and recording as of 2011.

Despite a message from the concert managers that the show was a one time benefit for Chris Knox and not the restart of Jeff Mangum's musical career, the show sparked rumors that Mangum would begin recording and touring again.

Despite their lackluster recording career, The Charlatans hold the distinction of being the first of the underground San Francisco bands of the 1960s and as such, their importance is felt by the dozens of successful Bay Area bands that emerged later in the decade, and by all the bands that those groups influenced.

Despite the band's annoyance at having so little time to prepare, on April 6 at 10 AM the Kingsmen walked into the three-microphone recording studio.

Despite getting along well with them personally and enjoying the recording of their 1978 self-titled album, Holdsworth claims that his time spent with the group was " miserable " due to numerous musical differences whilst on tour, namely Jobson and Wetton's desire for Holdsworth play his solos to an organised structure for each show ; something to which he vehemently objected.

Despite being overwhelmingly Democratic in registration and the Democrats holding the commissioner majority and all row offices, Cambria is a swing county in statewide elections, with all four statewide winners carrying it in 2008.

Despite his bebop associations, Byas always remained deeply rooted in the sounds of swing.

Despite the band's comic veneer, Lunceford always maintained professionalism in the music befitting a former teacher ; this professionalism paid off and during the apex of swing in the 1930s, the Orchestra was considered the equal of Duke Ellington's, Earl Hines ' or Count Basie's.

Despite this, Beattie went on to win the September 2006 election convincingly, with a slight swing towards the ALP in terms of its primary vote, and two party preferred result.

Despite the loss, he actually managed to increase the number of votes he won compared to the 2005 election, as well as managing to obtain the smallest losing Labour swing in the whole of England.

Despite a 6 % swing against him Tredinnick held his seat at the 2010 General Election with a majority of 5, 032 and 43 % of the vote.

Despite having achieved the highest Labour swing in the North of England, Hamilton's local constituency voted ( by a margin of one vote ) in favour of an all-women shortlist.

Despite a massive swing to Kim Beazley's Labor Party and the Coalition winning a minority of the two-party-preferred vote, the Howard Government was returned with a substantial majority in the House of Representatives.

Despite factional struggles within the party Bannon ( aged 39 ) managed to return Labor to government in the 1982 election with a 5. 9 percent two-party swing, stressing the continuation of prudent budgetary measures that had begun under David Tonkin and emphasising the economic development of the state.

Despite the total absence of the swing sound that the Daddies would soon become internationally known for, Kids on the Street is often considered by fans of the band to be their best album, something which has been acknowledged by the Daddies themselves, noting that " Irish Whiskey " is possibly the band's most requested song.

Despite some moderate critical praise including a glowing review from AllMusic, who called the album's " impressively surprising " array of sounds " refreshing coming from a band who was assumed to be generic retro swing ", Soul Caddy failed to achieve the chart success or commercial attention of its predecessor.

Despite the swing against Labour at that election, Dyson won her new electorate of Port Hills with an increased margin than that of Banks Peninsula.

Despite this the low-floor revolution was in full swing and the Ultra attracted moderate orders from operators including Northern Ireland's Translink for its Belfast-based Citybus ( later Metro ) and Ulsterbus subsidiaries, Travel West Midlands / FirstBus subsidiary Northampton Transport-who both took gas powered examples, Ireland's Bus Átha Cliath ( Dublin Bus ), Greater Manchester-based Timeline Travel and Stagecoach's, Fife Scottish-who took a solitary example.

Their father played country music around the house, and was also a member of a local Western swing band ; in addition, they were inspired by the rock and roll music their sister played, Despite having never had formal music training, both brothers learned how to play guitar, mandolin, and banjo.

Despite a controversial redistribution which moved the Robertson Barracks into his electorate, Wood held his seat with a swing in his favour, polling nearly double the vote of his nearest rival.

Despite Kilgariff's profile and the massive swing against the CLP elsewhere in the Territory, Lim managed to very narrowly retain his seat.

Despite McGrath not getting nearly as much swing, Hoggard departed for an eight-ball duck, cutting a delivery from Shane Warne to Hayden in the slips.

Despite this, the seat saw a very large swing to the Australian Labor Party at the 2005 election, surprising commentators on election night.

Despite not batting over. 180 during May, June, or July, Hall has made some great strides with his swing while seeing batting practice action.

Despite excellent ratings and the battle with 106 KHQ still in swing, the station's Grand Rapids-based management decided in 2000 to make the station Hot AC, dumping most of their rap / hip-hop tracks.

Despite a national swing to the Tories in the 1959 General Election, there was a swing to Labour in Scotland, and four Conservative held seats fell to Labour ( Ayrshire Central, Glasgow Craigton, Glasgow Scotstoun and Lanark ).