Ex-OHHMS members MAN BAND launch “Strong Man” with “Dane Valley” and a look at male identity

Ex-OHHMS members MAN BAND launch “Strong Man” with “Dane Valley” and a look at male identity

The origin story for “Dane Valley,” Man Band’s lead single, is almost too on-the-nose. Chainy Rabbit — the band’s vocalist — got mugged for £50 in Dane Valley park, a notoriously rough part of Margate. So he got jacked. Learned kickboxing. Became, as guitarist Daniel Sargent tells it, “super strong and muscle-covered, so that no one could ever mug him again.” One specific humiliation, one very physical response. It’s exactly the kind of story th…