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Name
  
Danny McCormack


Role
  
Singer

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Music groups
  
The Wildhearts (2001 – 2003), The Yo-Yos (1998 – 2005)

Albums
  
The Wildhearts Must Be, Riff After Riff After Motherfuc, Uppers And Downers, Given Up Giving Up

Similar People
  
Ginger, Scott Sorry, Jon Poole, Devin Townsend, Dunken Francis Mullett

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Danny McCormack (born 28 February 1972, South Shields, England) is a British singer and bassist.

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Biography

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McCormack became the bass player in The Wildhearts in 1991, and soon relocated to London with the band, enjoying success during their commercial peak, before the splits in 1997 and 1998. McCormack went on to form and front The Yo-Yos, with Tom Spencer (ex-Sugarsnatch/The Lurkers), and the band released an album on Sub Pop Records, but they eventually split in 2000.

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He re-joined The Wildhearts when they reformed in 2001, but was dropped midway through a tour. He rejoined again in 2002, but left once more in 2003. At the time the group's frontman Ginger penned an open letter to Kerrang! magazine documenting his close friend's drug problems and wished him a complete recovery. Unexpectedly, he returned to The Wildhearts one final time in 2005 for a live DVD.

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McCormack briefly played with Dogs D'Amour before re-forming The Yo-Yos in 2005, and recording an EP, "Given Up Giving Up". He subsequently supported his younger brother Chris McCormack's band, 3 Colours Red, on their final tour of Germany, but the band fired Danny McCormack halfway through a UK tour in 2005 following further drug problems. He continues to write and live in South Shields.

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In late 2006, McCormack announced on his MySpace page that he is working on a new project that is tentatively titled 'The I-Told-You-So's'.

Following a prolonged absence from the music scene for a number of years, McCormack took the stage to play bass at his 40th birthday. The special event featured two gigs in one night at Camden Barfly in London on 17 February 2012. Performances came from a reunited Yo-Yos - consisting of McCormack, Spencer and Rich Jones along with guest drummers - as well as a covers set featuring Chris McCormack, Andy Cairns (Therapy?), Ritch Battersby and Stidi (both The Wildhearts). The support band for the night was Plan A - which featured former Wildhearts guitarist Jef.

In 2015, McCormack founded a band called The Main Grains which would later release an EP called Don't Believe Everything You Think. Ahead of the mini-album's release, McCormack almost died after suffering an aneurysm in late 2015 - which later culminated in him losing his lower leg.

The four piece punk n roll group later played support on a few UK dates of the Ginger Wildheart Band's July 2016 tour. During one of the shows, McCormack and Ginger played onstage for the first time in more than a decade - with Ginger later announcing he and McCormack had finally buried the hatchet and were friends again.

UK Albums

  • Earth Vs The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts (East West 1993)
  • P.H.U.Q. - The Wildhearts (East West 1995)
  • Fishing For Luckies - The Wildhearts (Round 1996)
  • Endless Nameless - The Wildhearts (Mushroom 1997)
  • Uppers and Downers - The Yo-Yos (Sub Pop 2000)
  • Don't Believe Everything You Think - The Main Grains (TSP Records 2000)
  • UK Mini-albums & EPs

  • Mondo Akimbo A Go Go - The Wildhearts (East West 1991)
  • Don't Be Happy... Just Worry - The Wildhearts (East West 1992)
  • Red Light – Green Light EP - The Wildhearts (Round 1996)
  • Onwards & Upwards - The Chasers (ChangesOne 2001)
  • Giving Up, Giving Up Again - The Yo-Yos (not formally released 2006)
  • "Don't Believe Everything You Think" - The Main Grains (TSB 2015)
  • UK Compilations

  • The Best of The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts (East West 1996)
  • Landmines and Pantomimes - The Wildhearts (Kuro Neko 1998)
  • Coupled With - The Wildhearts (Gut Records 2004)
  • The Works - The Wildhearts (Rhino Records 2008)
  • Live albums

  • Anarchic Airwaves - The Wildhearts (Kuro Neko 1999)
  • Geordie in Wonderland - The Wildhearts (Snapper 2006)
  • International releases

  • Tokyo Suits Me (Japan only release) - The Wildhearts (Mercury 1999)
  • Riff After Riff After Motherfucking Riff (Japan only release) - The Wildhearts (Universal 2002)
  • DVDs

  • Live at the Castle - The Wildhearts (Secret 2005)
  • References

    Danny McCormack Wikipedia