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Dear friends,....

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It's a strange day when you come on here to say your farewells, but alas here we are.  With no intention of writing some kind of long eulogy to ourselves or anything of the sort, we did, however, all feel that what we achieved as The Dagger Lees (nee Stagger Lee) was deserving of a proper and final end and so a few words is at least fitting.....

The past 3 years have been one hell of a ride! From all the usual madness of being in a band and working and living with both of our lady rockers raising mini rockers at the same time, plus touring with some great bands, recording music we loved, writing, playing, falling down, getting up again..and lovin' every minute of it!  Life has thrown many curveballs our way, and more than once we survived them, dusted ourselves off and got back to work. The past couple of months though have thrown some sad aul curveballs that have meant that the band couldn't continue in its current form, and as much as that pains us, our date with the Diamond will have to wait another day.....

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All good things come to an end, and so to everyone who was involved with us in anyway - a sincere thank you!  Much love must go to Robbie Thing, Leo Pearson, Benjo, Davey, Jessie, Susie, Dan Beatnik, Andy Motorsounds, Loreana, Paul, Jason, Kelley, Mandy, Una, Warren, Karl, James, Niamh, Sinead, Edel, all the Phantom Family and especially to the mini Lees - Dylan and Steven. And to our families for all their support and everyone who came to a gig, hummed a tune, had a dance, wrote about us, helped out with shows, took a picture, bought a song - a really big and very sincere THANK YOU from all of us.....

Each of us can look back on the dedication, love, blood, sweat and tears we put in to making Stagger Lee/The Dagger Lees, something we are really proud of. We can happily say that we still love the bones of each other and there’s not many bands can say that!  We're all moving to pastures new (the first of which to look out for is Benni’s solo project Hathor Vein!!).... so we'll see you in the next lifetime.

Lots of love,
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Donna and The Dagger Lees....

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UK Podcast radio show Punky Radio are playing The Dagger Lees “Stagger Stomp” on this week’s show. It can be downloaded at www. punkyradio. com, www. punkyradio. btpodshow. com and at itunes. There is also a 3 minute preview of the show on www. myspace. com/punkyradio.

You can also catch The Mighty Stef and The Mudlow on the same show.

The Dagger Lees are this week's featured artist on the 02 Making Waves Podcast. Listen to Grum and Donna having a chat with Rory about making music and how it all began here:
Here

So we had a fab time at HWCH this year. Checked out some deadly sets in particular by Dublins Sickboy and Fangs from Scotland. Got some good reviews ourselves which was nice! See below.

These are the last gigs of the next while as we will be doing some prep work for recording the album in the US in early - mid 2009. We do plan however to showcase some the new material before the end of the year on a national stint of gigs so keep your eyes on the prize for more news on that over the coming weeks n months.

Also - get downloading the new exclusive 'Stagger Stomp' track which is only available on-line - and in radio stations to from this week onwards so get requesting!

Catch ya on the flip side!

B x

http://entertainment.ie/music/music-news-article.asp?NewsID=23207

The Dagger Lees looked fantastic on the stage of the basement room that housed the HWCH gigs in The Academy. A foxy frontwoman in red, and a bassist who magnificently pulled off a leather skirt and red heels stood beside a shirtless drummer and a lead guitarist who looked like the lovechild of Adrian Brody and Win Butler. And they didn't sound half bad, either. Donna McCabe's commanding vocals were a stark reminder of the difference it makes to a performance to really be able to sing. Though the stage was mostly obscured by black pillars and tall men, with great electric blues guitar and attitude pouring off the stage in streams, The Dagger Lees turned out to be one of the most pleasant surprises of the festival, even if the crowd were the sort of people who were too busy holding their drinks to bother with applause.

http://www.state.ie/blog/live-hard-working-class-heroes-day-two

It was then a bit of a trek to Academy 2 to catch as much as possible of The Dagger Lees. The former Stagger Lee have survived a name and line-up change (drumming duties now fall to the excellent Terry Cullen, frontman of Dae Kim) and have become tighter and s exier than ever in the process. The slower, harder and grimier version of 'Bad Shoes' is a real revelation tonight and the newer material growls with fresh, seedy confidence.

Thanks to The State and Entertainment.ie

Hi folks,

We are delighted to be playing the beautiful Speigeltent again at this year's Fringe Festival. We'll be playing alongside Humanzi and The Things in what promises to be a full on rock and roll show.

Tickets are a measly 15 quid which you can book online here:

http://dublinfringefest.ticketsolve.com/events/events_for_show/701732

Hey Ya'll

The Dagger Lees have been confirmed for Hard Working Class Heroes Festival 2008 and the peeps over there are running a competition for the bands playing through a download chart.

We will love you long time if you would pay a visit to Download to download our track 'Stagger Stomp' and get us into the chart!!!!

Download us and pass this message on and we will love you forever!!!! x x x


STAGGER LEE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE DAGGER LEES!

Irish rock'n'roll noir four piece announce name change & the recording of their debut album with legendary Detroit producer Jim Diamond of White Stripes, Von Bondies & Electric Six fame.

This female fronted, blues screaming, white-hot soul racket began life in Dublin in 2006 as Stagger Lee, and made waves in 2007 with the release of their debut single 'Bad Shoes' on their own label, Split Lip Records. The single reached no. 5 on Ireland's indie chart.
The band, delighted to confirm the recording of their debut album in the USA with Jim Diamond in early 2009, face legal difficulties with future releases if they continue under the name Stagger Lee. And so, in a storming sea of change, the Dagger Lees are born!

In embracing the new name, the Dagger Lees look forward to spending the summer writing and pre-producing their album. To celebrate they will release a free download-only single next month through their MySpace site so stay tuned for that! If you would like to receive an MP3 of the single please return an email with MP3 in subject title! It's that simple.

The Dagger Lees are also delighted to announce the inclusion of their track 'Scarlet Fever' on the forthcoming US film release by punk rock film company Vivid Alt. They've made several TV appearances on Irish television already this year and the video accompanying their debut single in 2007 has had over 68,000 Youtube views, as well as being short-listed in the London Portobello film festival.

Having recently kicked out the jams at the fantastic Glasgowbury festival in Derry, they are delighted to have been invited back to play the beautiful Speigeltent in Dublin in September 2008 as well as the Hard Working Class Heroes Festival!

Stay tuned to www.myspace.com/thedaggerlees for updates and sneak previews of demos for the album!

Hey y'all,

So we've been busy with the name change and all sorts of new-ness-ness-ness that we almost forgot to tell you that next month we'll be putting out a free, yes FREE download only single on our MySpace page. If you would like an MP3 of this little beauty then you need to mail us over at thedaggerlees(at)gmail(dot)com with MP3 in the subject line. That's it!

In the mean time some web-words on what we've been up to the last while...

Off Her Rocker

State.ie Mag Blog

Una Rocks

ireland.com/going out

Entertainment.ie

Drop-d.ie

Garfield Ghost.com Blog

It's all change 'round here these days!!

******Irish rock'n'roll noir four piece announce name change & the recording of their debut album with legendary Detroit producer Jim Diamond of White Stripes, Von Bondies & Electric Six fame*******

This female fronted, screaming feral blues, white-hot soul racket began life in 2006 as Stagger Lee. The band, delighted to confirm the recording of their debut album in the USA with Jim Diamond in early 2009, faced legal difficulties with future releases if they continue under the name Stagger Lee.

And so, in a storming sea of change, the Dagger Lees are born!

In embracing the new name, the Dagger Lees look forward to kicking down the doors of what has gone before, parting ways with the past and are spending the summer writing and pre-producing their album.

The Dagger Lees are also delighted to announce the inclusion of their track 'Scarlet Fever' on the forthcoming US film release by punk rock film company Vivid Alt.

Having played with international acts such as The Kills, Jon Spencer Blues Xplosion, The Duke Spirit, Sleater Kinny, The Grates, The Long Blondes, The Drones and The Von Bondies, The Dagger Lees are delighted to have been invited back to play the beautiful Speigeltent in Dublin in September 2008 and a slot at Glasgowbury Festival 2008, Solas Festival 2008 and more to be announced!

Stay tuned to www.myspace.com/thedaggerlees for updates and sneak previews of demos for the album and join the mailing list thedaggerlees@gmail.com to be the first to hear about upcoming news and gig dates.

Ah we had much fun this past Thursday playing with Story of Hair and Ham Sandwich in Crawdaddy as part of the Murphys Live competition. We'll find out shortly how we all got on...so fingers crossed! IN the meantime you can take a look at the photos up in a new album in our pics as kindly sent on to us by Sinead at gigshots.ie and Kevin Deane.

Thanks to all of you that came down to support us!!

S L x x x