Altsounds.com Q&A Interview - Dananananaykroyd
 

I convinced the tour manager of Dananananaykroyd to allow me a few minutes with the band, who had come from straight from Paris and were barely surviving on two hours sleep. I managed to keep them chatting until they could crash out in their tour bus.

Altsounds: Lets get down to the serious questions, what's your favourite joke?
Duncan: What did the 0 say to the 8

Altsounds: I don’t know
Duncan: Nice belt... That’s my favourite joke cos I can tell that to my nephew
David : What did Bruce Lee get for Christmas...Ha Toi!
John: Ryan told me a really good one. There’s a plane landing and the pilot is talking to his co-pilot and he’s left on the intercom thing. And his co-pilot says, "So what are you gonna do today?" And the pilot replies "Well first, I’m gonna do a massive shite and then I’m gonna have my way with that blonde airhostess." So the blonde air hostess starts running from the back of the plane to the cockpit and she trips and falls in the aisle and some old lady goes "don’t worry hen, he said he was going for a shite first!"
All: Ha ha ha
Callum: I don’t have one, I’m rubbish. Erm.


Altsounds: I’ve basically been stuck in this tent so I didn’t get to see you. But the last time I saw you you all made a real impact because of your audience interaction.
John: Where did you see us again?

Altsounds: Stag and Dagger in Leeds, you put on a dance track and went into the crowd, just dancing, Obviously you can't have such intimate crowd reaction at a larger festival, how did it impact your performance?
Duncan: Well no one would be able to see you because the space you had would be so small so we brought back the wall of cuddles and that went well today. [To Callum] Do you want to explain the wall of cuddles?
Callum: Yeah, the wall of cuddles is a state of mind where we separate the crowd into two and [claps hands together].

Altsounds: Like the wall of death?
Callum: Yeah but with cuddles .


Altsounds: That would definitely make you less intimidating. So do you have a message for anyone who hasn’t heard of you or any fans wanting to hear something new?
Callum: Hi! I’m Callum, how are you!

Altsounds: Anything else....? [Squishy faces made by all] ...Where’s you lady friend? The bassist?
John: Ermm shes gone, she’s not in the band any more.

Altsounds: Really? why?
Duncan: We sacked her.

Altsounds: [In disbelief] Fuck off! Did you really?
John: We can't talk about it...
Duncan: It just wasn’t working out.

Altsounds: Oh Jesus, I just thought that she wasn’t doing the interviews.
John: On no, no, she’s DEAD! Ha ha ha [nervous laughter]
David: I mean we can talk about it, but legally we cant.


Altsounds: OK, now if I were a princess trapped in a tower...
Callum: You are a princess! You mean you’re not? I’m running away!

Altsounds: ...and it was surrounded by thorns. How would you rescue me?
Duncan: Well, Callum and I have a lot of experience with the old fantasy genre. What am I? Like a Mage and you're a Warlord, so I can cast spells but he’s got a big body.
David: Nah, that’s crap, I’d have a big guitar that shot lasers and I’d bust down the door with sound waves from a massive amp that I’d carry on my back. I'd stick the guitar through the dragons eyeballs and then I’d throw you over my shoulder and I’d run down the stairs.
John: [Continuing David's suggestion] Drag you through the hedge backwards.....
David: .....And then I’d shag yeh!
All: Laughing


Altsounds: [Shock] Thank you?
John: [Laughing in disbelief] Thank you?!?
Callum: I'd turn my head into a dinosaur and then walk about!

Altsounds: So tell me something strange about what’s happened in the band.
John: I snapped my arm off in Australia. I fell off stage and these two bones here [left forearm, close to the elbow] sheered right off and I took off a big chunk of my elbow. I had to get emergency surgery, so now I've got 4 screws holding my arm together and now I can't play drums. I’m the singer and play drums but I cant play drums anymore.

Altsounds: That's such a shame, when I saw you your tour manager played drums when you were in the audience, will he be officially joining the band?
John: There's nothing official yet.

Altsounds: So if you were on death row what would be your last meal?
Duncan: Something from Popcorn Catering, they do the catering here [Leeds Festival] and we're really good friends with them, they’re really good. I think they’d help me escape actually.
David: I'd have a vegetable lasagne with roast potatoes.
Callum: I'd have a raspberry boot-lace.


Altsounds: Oh my god, that’s not even a meal.
John: I don’t know what I'd have, something really quick, like an apple. I'd have a razor blade in it and cut the fuckers so I could escape.

Altsounds: Ok, so you're all quite energetic on stage, would you ever consider releasing a fitness video?

[All laugh]
Callum: Yeah, but when were not on stage we are sat on our backsides at home licking our lips.
David: My friends come round and go, have you been sitting in your pants eating beans all week?
John: [The video] It'd only last 10 minutes though.
Duncan: Or you could pay to join the band for a while...

Danananakroyd carried on interviewing for another half hour before they were finally released to wander around the festival or to go sleep in the mud.

Danananakroyd's album 'Hey Everyone!' is out now on Best Before Records and they are are completing a UK tour between 21st Oct through to 1st November.