Drakkar Sauna / Dawes – Big Roots Show

Transpanther & ISC Present:
Drakkar Sauna w/ Dawes
Thursday, May 14th
Local’s Only
8:00 / 21+ / $8
Non Smoking

Drakkar Sauna – http://www.myspace.com/drakkansasauna
Dawes – http://www.myspace.com/dawestheband

If not the first, then surely the most common question we are asked is how
we came to name ourselves Drakkar Sauna. We want to tell you. We want
you to know, if only so that you’ll stop asking. It makes us feel vulnerable,
it makes us feel judged.
We thought it sounded like a palindrome. What it comes down to is we
didn’t have any scratch paper handy and our understanding of what a
palindrome is wasn’t accurate. But that’s what happened. ‘Drakkar’
sounded like a palindrome. So did ‘Sauna’. We thought that two
palindromes would make one bigger palindrome. Obviously, we were, in
part, mistaken. I hope now your curiosity is satisfied and you will not
think too poorly of us for our incomplete command of the language.
We live in Lawrence, Kansas and are fathers to three full-length
recordings, rover (04), drakkansasauna (05), & Jabraham Lincoln (06).
We have recorded, also, an ep, Hunger Overcame Us (04) and helped
produce a feature video, The Blood Feud (05), a work of fiction. We are, in
all things, supported by our union with Marriage Records. We have toured
the U.S.A. a few times. We have toured with Dark Meat and the Vomit
Lazers Family Galaxy, Split Lip Rayfield, The Impossible Shapes, Two
Gallants, Magnolia Electric Company and by ourselves.
Our names are Jeff Stolz and Wallace Cochran and we get along well.