Dananananaykroyd

Dananananaykroyd headlined the first night of the Levi’s Ones To Watch 5 night revue in East London last night (7th July). Playing to a rapturous, sold out crowd in Brick Lane’s Vibe Bar, the Glaswegian sextet treated them to a stunning set jam-packed with hits from their debut album, 'Hey Everybody’ and a succession of topless stage dives and mass sing-a-longs. Combining the chaos and craft of their math-rock, fight-pop mash up, the Scots ripped through crowd favorites and previous singles, 'Totally Bone’, 'Black Wax and the manic 'Pink Sabbath’. The latter causing utter carnage as both lead singer Callum Gunn and singer/drummer John Baillier Junior delivered the song from the belly of the mosh pit as their band mates behind cut their angular, twisted frames to the frantic beat.

With barely any respite the band launched into 'Some Dresses’, a song they oddly dedicated to their ginger haired, perverted friend in the crowd and 'Infinity Milk’, a track performed at such heat defying intensity, it’s now legendary dance-off finale was cheered and heckled by two thirds of the band striped down to the waist as Gunn and fellow fans attempted to break-dance in the middle of the pit.

With their front man still writhing amidst his increasingly sweaty devotees, the band delayed hurling themselves into set closer 'Song One Puzzle’ by playing guess that theme tune before tentatively asking for their singer back. Once back on stage the band dedicated the song to an 'awesome crowd’ before declaring it 'the last chance to dance’. Que flaying arms and legs as the crowd manically mosh while lead guitarist David Roy performed the track over by the venue’s bar. As the song raged to an enthralling end Gunn descended on the crowd for what he described as the now ritual 'wall of cuddles’ hugging each member of the crowd before making his way back onto the stage to play out both 'Chrome Rainbow’ and '1993’ for a scintillating encore.

Earlier in the evening sultry post-punk 4-piece Romance played an energetic set which included tracks 'Mother’ and the stand out 'Picture Frame’. While the lo-fi brilliance of The Late Greats took to the stage for what was a breathtaking set of Pavement inspired tracks taken from their much hyped debut album Life Without Balloons.