hi everyone!
i'm really excited to hang out with my lovely best friends calum, david, duncan, laura and paul again on sunday when we do the jofo tour!
i'd REALLY like you to come and say hi to us if we visit your town or a place near your town, dates below, yeah!?
i want to see the beautiful people out in force plez
jbj xx
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Sep 21 2008 8:00P
The Lamp w/Johnny Foreigner
Hull
Sep 22 2008
The Venue w/Johnny Foreigner
Derby
Sep 23 2008
Roadmender w/Johnny Foreigner
Northampton
Sep 24 2008
Korova w/Johnny Foreigner
Liverpool
Sep 25 2008
WA1 w/Johnny Foreigner
Warrington
Sep 26 2008
Barfly w/Johnny Foreigner
Cardiff
Sep 27 2008
Moles w/Johnny Foreigner
Bath
Sep 29 2008
Albert w/Johnny Foreigner
Brighton
Sep 30 2008
White Heat @ Madam Jojo’s w/Johnny Foreigner
London
Oct 1 2008
Charlotte w/Johnny Foreigner
Leicester
Oct 2 2008
53 Degrees w/Johnny Foreigner
Preston
Oct 3 2008
The End w/Johnny Foreigner (ticket details inside)
Newcastle
Oct 4 2008
Cabaret Voltaire w/Johnny Foreigner
Edinburgh
20 September 2008
19 September 2008
18 September 2008
17 September 2008
14 September 2008
13 September 2008
SONGS
For no real reason, here's the songs we recorded in New York, soon to be assembled into our debut long player. The countdown begins!:
Totally Bone (you know the score)
Some Dresses (ditto - particularly proud of the spacky breakdown middle section. Not too ridiculous, not too restrained. Just perfect)
One Chance (a sharp blast of hardcore screamo action)
Watch This! (stabby riffy shouty number with singalong start and middle sections. Trickiest riff to play for me, but probably the dumbest song on the record. Go figure)
Pink Sabbath (album version of the first single from the record. Might be slightly faster or slightly slower than single version. Who knows or cares? Rock on)
Black Wax (ridiculously cocky mid-tempo stomp with Andrew WK pianos. Seriously. Lol)
Hey Everyone (explosive intro track with Jim O'Rourke-esque riffy bit)
The Greater Than Symbol & The Hash (brand new, even more pulverising version of live favourite - The middle section sounds like we're summoning demons with our guitars)
1993 (same again - but more rocking at the rocking part and more pretty at the pretty part)
Infinity Milk (full length album version with destroying choruses and my favourite bit of guitars ever. Only sounds like Chrome Rainbow for a second and a half. Still too much? You need your head checked. Lol)
Hey James (old skool style Dana song with thunderous guitar end section and Calum hopefully sounding like he's dying - amazing. 5 minutes longer than it should be - amazing. Dedicated to our oldest friend and former drummer James - rocking)
America Runs On Duncan (Duncan's first song for the band is a quite outstanding slice of jangly, angular [jangular?] 90's indie-rock)
Crisps (dark and haunting rocktageous jammy one with shouty "bup!"'s throughout the verses)
Song One Puzzle (yeah yeah - same again, just far more rocking and punishing at the end)
DO I SOUND LIKE IM PROUD OF OUR FORTHCOMING RECORD?
YOU WOULD BE TOO IF IT WAS YOURS!
UNLESS YOU LIKE TOPLOADER
OR ARE RADIOHEAD
Totally Bone (you know the score)
Some Dresses (ditto - particularly proud of the spacky breakdown middle section. Not too ridiculous, not too restrained. Just perfect)
One Chance (a sharp blast of hardcore screamo action)
Watch This! (stabby riffy shouty number with singalong start and middle sections. Trickiest riff to play for me, but probably the dumbest song on the record. Go figure)
Pink Sabbath (album version of the first single from the record. Might be slightly faster or slightly slower than single version. Who knows or cares? Rock on)
Black Wax (ridiculously cocky mid-tempo stomp with Andrew WK pianos. Seriously. Lol)
Hey Everyone (explosive intro track with Jim O'Rourke-esque riffy bit)
The Greater Than Symbol & The Hash (brand new, even more pulverising version of live favourite - The middle section sounds like we're summoning demons with our guitars)
1993 (same again - but more rocking at the rocking part and more pretty at the pretty part)
Infinity Milk (full length album version with destroying choruses and my favourite bit of guitars ever. Only sounds like Chrome Rainbow for a second and a half. Still too much? You need your head checked. Lol)
Hey James (old skool style Dana song with thunderous guitar end section and Calum hopefully sounding like he's dying - amazing. 5 minutes longer than it should be - amazing. Dedicated to our oldest friend and former drummer James - rocking)
America Runs On Duncan (Duncan's first song for the band is a quite outstanding slice of jangly, angular [jangular?] 90's indie-rock)
Crisps (dark and haunting rocktageous jammy one with shouty "bup!"'s throughout the verses)
Song One Puzzle (yeah yeah - same again, just far more rocking and punishing at the end)
DO I SOUND LIKE IM PROUD OF OUR FORTHCOMING RECORD?
YOU WOULD BE TOO IF IT WAS YOURS!
UNLESS YOU LIKE TOPLOADER
OR ARE RADIOHEAD
12 September 2008
Everybody Cheer Up
SO YEAH. Me again. We've all (minus lead vocal burper Calum - wheps) been in New York/New Jersey for the last month recording our debut album. A fun, yet hard-working and stressful time was had by all. The recording went well. We've crammed all our "classic" tunes on there for the peeps who haven't heard them, as well as a bunch of swish, new, shiny ones and, so far, pre-mix, it's all sounding really rocking good. A proper, whirly cauldron of swished up party-times and furrowed-brow, beefy rock-out that's as sloppily dangerous as it is fist-pumpingly grin-inducing. Well, to me anyway. Lol. I'm pretty sure we got it right, which makes me happy.
It cetainly wasn't always fun to be there though, Machine (our producer) and his staff had his recording studio shut down the day before we arrived and we (well, they) had to quickly relocate elsewhere. Apparently this involved breaking in and removing everything at night when nobody was looking. With the building being owned by Tony Soprano, I can't imagine this was an easy task. We were sat out in front of our AC units in Jersey though, drinking root beer and watching The Cosby Show, or out in our hired people carrier, completely oblivious, whizzing around Manhattan and eating far too much Taco Bell to take notice. A few days later, we get the call and we turn up to record and everything seems fine. Life really is a piece of cake when you shut your eyes to the surrounding panic. Haha. Aside from this and, obviously, the lack of Calum, everything else went A-OK. Unless you're our boss, naturally. Do you know you have to tip barmen everytime you buy a drink and that vodkas and coke are 10 dollars, but they don't measure the vodka, they just pour it in like a crazy person? Weird and good.
It's good to be home. I've missed vegetarian food and sandwiches that can actually exist without having turkey or ham in them. Who'd have thunked it? Mmm sandwiches. Maybe someone will post some of their photos for you guys to see? I wouldn't bet on it. Haha. I will have some videos up soon though, lots and lots of footage to wade through first. Gulp.
Anyway, Pink Sabbath (our new single backed with Chrome Rainbow) is out soon. It's already been "leaked" by some douchebags who obviously hate us and our music, but we're proud of it and hopefully we'll be able to sell some 7"s on tour to be able to afford biscuits and fizzy pop while sleeping on rat-stained floors and crying down our clothes to wash them. Jeez, I can't wait to go on tour again. It's going to be MEGO!
Check out our Myspace gig listings, I put some up today for November. Go see if we're playing near you (does NEAR you count?) and come see us and our feeble suntans!
Oh yeah, and everyone flick off some sweaty luck towards Calum, who goes out to NY this week to get his shouty bits done for the record! GO C-DAWG GO!!
I need to go and lose some weight now. HELP! Bye everybody.
It cetainly wasn't always fun to be there though, Machine (our producer) and his staff had his recording studio shut down the day before we arrived and we (well, they) had to quickly relocate elsewhere. Apparently this involved breaking in and removing everything at night when nobody was looking. With the building being owned by Tony Soprano, I can't imagine this was an easy task. We were sat out in front of our AC units in Jersey though, drinking root beer and watching The Cosby Show, or out in our hired people carrier, completely oblivious, whizzing around Manhattan and eating far too much Taco Bell to take notice. A few days later, we get the call and we turn up to record and everything seems fine. Life really is a piece of cake when you shut your eyes to the surrounding panic. Haha. Aside from this and, obviously, the lack of Calum, everything else went A-OK. Unless you're our boss, naturally. Do you know you have to tip barmen everytime you buy a drink and that vodkas and coke are 10 dollars, but they don't measure the vodka, they just pour it in like a crazy person? Weird and good.
It's good to be home. I've missed vegetarian food and sandwiches that can actually exist without having turkey or ham in them. Who'd have thunked it? Mmm sandwiches. Maybe someone will post some of their photos for you guys to see? I wouldn't bet on it. Haha. I will have some videos up soon though, lots and lots of footage to wade through first. Gulp.
Anyway, Pink Sabbath (our new single backed with Chrome Rainbow) is out soon. It's already been "leaked" by some douchebags who obviously hate us and our music, but we're proud of it and hopefully we'll be able to sell some 7"s on tour to be able to afford biscuits and fizzy pop while sleeping on rat-stained floors and crying down our clothes to wash them. Jeez, I can't wait to go on tour again. It's going to be MEGO!
Check out our Myspace gig listings, I put some up today for November. Go see if we're playing near you (does NEAR you count?) and come see us and our feeble suntans!
Oh yeah, and everyone flick off some sweaty luck towards Calum, who goes out to NY this week to get his shouty bits done for the record! GO C-DAWG GO!!
I need to go and lose some weight now. HELP! Bye everybody.
Bill Murray Video
Sorry about the lack of audio on this, but it was too noisy in the airport and I was too far away to get much chat. What do you mean you'd rather listen to background airport noise than the highly daft opening credit music to Groundhog Day?? You people make me SICK!
YAY WE MET BILL MURRAY.
Dananananaykroyd Meet Bill Murray from David Roy on Vimeo.
^ Click the link for a better quality version at Vimeo!
YAY WE MET BILL MURRAY.
Dananananaykroyd Meet Bill Murray from David Roy on Vimeo.
^ Click the link for a better quality version at Vimeo!
09 September 2008
Dananananaykroyd meets Bililililmurray
We were so excited to see him get on our plane, and we were even filming the back of his head (from very far away), but in the end that was totally pointless, because we got to hang out with BILL MURRAY!!!!
(from the long arm / myspace school of photography)
Even thinking about how nice he was makes me feel all warm inside. He is as sweet as you could possibly hope...
Love
Duncan / Dananananaykroyd
PS We're not even home yet from NYC, just sitting on the ground in Kings X. Things we are excited about returning to Glasgow for include 'the telly', 'sofas' and John's fancy monitoring speakers
(from the long arm / myspace school of photography)
Even thinking about how nice he was makes me feel all warm inside. He is as sweet as you could possibly hope...
Love
Duncan / Dananananaykroyd
PS We're not even home yet from NYC, just sitting on the ground in Kings X. Things we are excited about returning to Glasgow for include 'the telly', 'sofas' and John's fancy monitoring speakers
07 September 2008
NYCya!
The recording has be going well, we have 2 days off to chillax, and here's what the first day looked like -
Rivington from Duncan Robertson on Vimeo.
Here's a vodka / travelsicked green David :
Rivington from Duncan Robertson on Vimeo.
Here's a vodka / travelsicked green David :
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