There is No Dana – Angry Gladiator Shakes Tiny People

“This Song Is A Douche” has nearly 200,000 plays on Spotify alone after just three months of digital streaming as well as millions of plays on TikTok after being used in thousands of organic user-generated videos! Following the 2001 breakup of the well-regarded Chicago emo band NYMB, lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Elaine Bradley (later of NEON TREES) assembled a short-lived side project called THERE IS NO DANA with former NYMB drummer Ben Kane and EIFFEL TOWER bassist Pete Wulff. In the winter of 2002, the group self-recorded a six-song EP titled Angry Gladiator Shakes Tiny People on Bradley’s digital 8-track in their practice space, an industrial sheet metal fabrication shop, after just a handful of rehearsals and two late-night recording sessions. THERE IS NO DANA played just a single, ham-fisted show at the now-demolished Black Rock Bar in Roscoe Village, a neighborhood watering hole where some of the band members used to hang out. Only a few CD copies were made, and digital distribution was limited to Bradley’s solo music website before the album – and the site itself – vanished from the early internet entirely. That is, until fall 2024, when a leaked copy began circulating and the track “This Song Is A Douche” blew up on TikTok, becoming a viral sensation among a new generation of emo fans. The EP was mastered by Carl Saff and is now being reissued on vinyl for the first time with liner notes and slightly re-worked art featuring a drawing of the original CD cover by Emiliano Gonzalez (@nosoychapucero).