Dananananaykroyd
By: Thomas Hannan
Touring this week*:
26/3 - Adelphi, Hull
27/3 - Taylor Johns House, Coventry
28/3 - Bullingdon, Oxford
29/3 - Ifor Bach, Cardiff
30/3 - Engine Room, Brighton
31/3 - Portland, Cambridge
1/4 - The Harley, Sheffield
2/4 - Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London
3/4 - The Deaf Institute, Manchester
4/4 - Korova, Liverpool
5/4 - The End, Newcastle
Tour then continues:
6/4 - The Arches, Glasgow
7/4 - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
25/4 - Camden Crawl, London
1/5 - Paradiso, Amsterdam
14/5 - Great Escape, Brighton
15/5 - Great Escape, Brighton
16/5 - Great Escape, Brighton
21/5 - Stag and Dagger, London
22/5 - Stag and Dagger, Leeds
23/5 - Stag and Dagger, Glasgow
17/7 - Pohoda Festival, Slovakia
18/7 - 2000 Trees, Cheltenham
21/8 - Pukklepop Festival, Hasselt
Tickets: £6.00 face value, available HERE.
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: Though on the radar since the heady, pre-recession days of 2006 when everyone was loaded and poured money on to their cornflakes (or at least that's how I remember it), it's taken the lazy sods Dananananaykroyd until now to release their debut LP Hey Everyone. Perhaps they've just been waiting until the public at large had figured out to pronounce their name? It still tickles us after all this time, but it's not the only thing to enjoy about this frantic, two drummer-boasting Scottish behemoth of a band. If you imagine Los Campesinos revelling in being pissed off with everything as opposed to how wonderful a world full of bunnies and kittens and meadows and pot pourri would be, you're halfway there, but to get the full picture, you're going to have to check it out for yourselves.
*Bit of an extended 'tour of the week', you'll notice, due to our SXSW backlog. Can't complain, mind.
Artists in this article: Dananananaykroyd