Myspace Trawl – Dananananaykroyd

One day, our constant stereotype abuse will probably land us with either a smack in the chops or a lawsuit.

If anything, we’d prefer the latter, not because it’ll make us look big, hard and more attractive to socialites but due to the fact we have bugger all to our name. If a Hollywood superstar wants our collection of cigarette packets or dated takeaway menus, then let bring it on! 

This week’s band – Dananananaykroyd hail from bonny Scotland. So naturally, we assumed that they’d be red headed, wear nothing but tartan and have a diet that consisted of only deep-fried Mars Bars and gallons of Irn Bru. Oh, and we thought that bagpipes had to feature somewhere. Apart from the bagpipes, we aren’t sure if our assumptions on the band are true, but maybe in a probing interview one day we can find that out. For now, we’ll concentrate on their music. 

Hailing from Glasgow, the sound of the band has been described as 'fight pop' and hardcore. OK, hardcore is a little easier to understand, but fight pop? Maybe it’ll become the soundtrack to crazy Japanese videogames where characters are the mutation of monsters, flowers and people and have stupid names that mean something in Japanese but end up sounding a bit silly once they've been translated fifty or so times. 

You needn’t worry about the hardcore tag. The six members that make up Dananananaykroyd haven’t made a collection of songs that will blow you against the nearest wall. Yes, elements of that style do pop through now and again, but to place them in that category is a bad thing and could deter someone who has a hatred of that genre. We put it down to lazy people not listening to their songs properly or going off what their mates told them down the pub. 

Are we going to try and give them a defining tag? Well we’ll try, but don’t come ringing our doorbell telling us we don’t know what we’re talking about.

The safe option would be rock, but for the person who likes to categorise everything, then can we suggest the badly titled 'fuzztronic epica rock'? Yeah, we know it’s a bit wonky, bit it's cutting edge enough for the NME to probably steal it off us. We use that term because unlike hardcore/grindcore songs they don’t last 5.4 seconds and instead have multilayered parts that keep everything interesting. The formula of 'words, chorus, words, solo, chorus' doesn’t apply here.

All four songs are taken from their latest EP, Sissy Hits. Older material is limited, deleted and trading hands for silly money. This release is the first real record where a lot of people can get their hands on it. For once, we can’t pick a song we like out of the ones available to us. It’s not because we’re rush writing this, but we really to do like each track. Think of it as picking a favourite child. The decision is that tough. 

Sometimes hecklerspray is accused of not researching things or giving out facts, so we are happy to give you a Dananananaykroyd fact. Bass player Laura is engaged to Barry from The Futureheads. More than likely this fact will be used in every bit of press they will ever have, so let's start it happening here.  

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