Music :: Live Review 09 Oct 2008
Jason Morton: Whilst watching Dananananaykroyd's (****) contagious brand of jitter-punk unfold onstage, a fellow concertgoer asks me what their name is. “I really like their enthusiasm,” she says. Maybe this is precisely why Foals picked them as support ...
Records :: Feature :: Round Up 01 Oct 2008
Nick Mitchell: If this was the mid-90s and Oasis were in their pomp, The Shock of the Lightning (**, Out Now) would be an album track at best, and certainly not the lead single from a new album. But that says more about what Oasis have become than it does about the t...
Music :: Live Review 30 Jun 2008
Jamie Borthwick: It’s the night of the ‘ananas’ at Oran Mor, a tantalising one-two of the new kids on the block before a return from the old masters. Dananananaykroyd (****) fill every crevice of the stage and proceed to own it for the entirety of t...
Music :: Feature :: New Blood 27 Jun 2008
Billy Hamilton: It’s been a tumultuous couple of years for lug-puncturing melody merchants Dananananaykroyd. Throughout the last 24 months, the Glaswegian sextet have been unanimously advocated by the slaver-strewn quills of the UK music press, undergone a strin...
Heads Up :: News 29 May 2008
Billy Hamilton: If The Skinny could fly spitfires it would dress something like this. Alas, our collective of scribes and snappers are sadly lacking in aeronautical expertise but the lucky folks of Auld Reekie can soon appease their disappointment with the next best ...
Music :: Preview 01 May 2008
Wilbur Kane: What is a young band to do to get their voice heard these days anyway, particularly amidst the plethora of festivals involving established acts that have sprouted up everywhere in the last few years? In this case, they quite literally get their acts to...
Records :: Single Review 12 Dec 2006
Nick Mitchell: Dananananaykroyd – a bizarre name for a bizarrely brilliant band. The Glasgow six-piece formed after ditching various former muso-mates earlier this year, but was this collective sacrifice worth it? Some Dresses, their second single to date, yell...
