THINGS

We're back from SXSW! It was great. We tried to rock as hard as we could and it certainly was tough playing our first shows outside of Europe, as nobody really knew who we were and, to be fair, it wasn't quite the right environment for a show of our type, but we gave it a good shot and had a quite marvellous time throughout! Here's hoping something good will come of it business/music-wise; we all feel there was certainly a lot gained personally! Sun, dogs, food, free stuff, interviews, photos, insane amounts of incredible music and drinking fun tims with all of our friends. WICKED!

So yeah, we're back. I'm dead tired. But there's no rest for us goons as we embark on possibly the most important tour of our lives tomorrow: THE GREAT DEBUT ALBUM LAUNCH TOUR. Not only that, but we're touring with some of our favourite bands and, all our personal guff aside, we get to rock out to some awesome music every night for two weeks!

I hope everyone that comes to see us on this tour will have a burning urge to race to their nearest record shop or to a computer and purchase our album as soon as it drops on the 6th of April.

I've just written the chorus to a new song that has got me very excited. Our 2nd album has to be great and, so far, i'm pretty excited with what i've got splatting out of my guitar right now!

See you on tour!!! COME ON! LETS ROCK OUT!!! AND DANCE!! OH YEAH, DONT FORGET THE DANCING!!! ROCK DANCE!!!

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

Leave Me To Die In The Comfort Of My Own Home

Hi nobody!!!

It might seem like it's been a quiet couple of months for Dananananaykroyd, but, in reality, our collective heads have been bursting with stuff (egg) and all manner of puff (gust) going on behind the scenes that it's been a bit of a crazy ride trying to get our brains to compute properly. Sort of like playing Paperboy on the Atari ST upside down through your fat auntie's spectacles. Or something.

We've got all sorts of crazy news to bring and we're hitting the road for eight more gigs (and counting...) that will take us up to the very early summer. But, first and foremost, our EP is finally coming out really, really soon, we can almost smell its turgid musk wafting into our brains like smell bees. Is everyone going to buy it?? Is everyone going to help us out by buying our puny record so that we can forge on and try and deliver something even more muscular next time?? Don't believe us? Just try it mister! I DARE YOU.

In anticipation of this fine little record, we're doing a promo 'British Knights' music video. It's all set to be hilarious, rocko, yet fantastically watchable. I'm dead pumped for this, you should be too.

Also, we've been writing tons of great new songs and getting so excited about them that we can't wait to play them to yooz. Seriously, amongst our best tunes yet. We're furiously trying to find enough time between the six of us to practice them. It hasn't happened yet, but everything in good time. We're planning on being around a very long time, so it's important we take our time, you know? Album will be coming this year whether you like it or not, mind...

BIFF! Come see us on tour with the highly amazing Johnny Foreigner next month (dates on the Myspace) and get really music!! GET REALLY MUSIC!!!

In conclusion then, go put on 'Everybody's Down' by No Age (one of the best bands on the planet right now) and fight your ceiling from your bed mattress and feel how excited we are about rocking out some more with you guys real soon. YEAH!!!

smell bees...