Will Power
Dananananaykroyd’s 12-legged march across the globe has seen injury and line-up changes but the Scottish band has rallied around with a new album dedicated to their continuous mission to make everything turn out alright for their fans. BRAD BARRETT tries to get in the ‘Way…
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t’s always exciting when your early faith is rewarded. Dananananaykroyd have a clumsy moniker – their first website listing the many, many misspellings they’d found in features, reviews and listings – reshuffled singers between their first singles and debut EP and, more recently, one
of them suffered a horrific injury no doctor was entirely confident in fixing. But the savage bouquet of utter fun that fuelled early 7” singles Totally Bone and Some Dresses has been retained throughout. They have often captured the unofficial title of the UK’s Most Exciting Live Band, no doubt in part due to partially retired joyous celebrations like the Wall of Cuddles, and co-singer Calum Gunn doing several laps of honour around venues. And all this shortly after a hyperbole-strewn first mention in an early Playmusic after just two
50 3pickup
listens to Totally Bone. Well, we did predict good times ahead for the very likable Glaswegians.
The good times halted temporarily for co-vocalist John Baillie Junior in August 2009 when he snapped his forearm and sheared off some of his elbow in a show in Sydney, Australia. “It was pretty traumatic!” he remembers. “It was weird; my surgeon in Australia had to do emergency surgery, obviously, and my surgeon said ‘look, this is a pretty severe break and I’ve never done anything like this before so we’ll see how it goes’ and when I came back to the UK I was getting check up X-rays and the doctor would go and get his friend and look at this X- ray as if I’d had it done on Mars because he couldn’t believe how perfect it was!”
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