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Been spending an annoyed day at work, using Danko Jones to get over it - and I realised that I didn't recall these guys being discussed on Barbelith.
They're a Canadian three-piece, fronted by a guy called Danko Jones (duh) and I reckon there'd be a bit of an audience here for them. If you're into Turbonegro/The Hellacopters/Young Heart Attack/that kinda rock thing then you'd probably like them. Two albums I've got, Born A Lion and, particularly, We Sweat Blood are well-produced, tight-as-fuck rock beasts in that sort of AC/DC way. It's tongue-in-cheek, but not in a Darkness kind of way. I guess the best thing to do is to find a copy and listen. Not At The Drive In, but not quite Andrew W.K., either.
There's some streaming songs off their new album available here.
Danko also runs a radio show that's archived online, outta Sweden. Called The Magical World Of Rock with Danko Jones, it's a themed thing, with show titles like The Misfits Vs Rocket From The Crypt, Spotlight on Fushitsusha, Spotlight On The Boredoms and Rock Bands That Kill People - so you can get an idea of both the taste and the humour of it.
Anyway, they're touring Europe at the moment, with mid-late April dates in the UK (Londoners: the Garage on the 10th, Loomis: King Tuts on the 22nd). Their gigs are listed on their site, so I was wondering if anyone was planning on going - and whether they could give me a report on what the shows are like?
Other than that, whaddya think of the band? They get a certain amount of slagging for stupidity, but I didn't think that was really a cardinal sin in the world o'rawk.
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