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Stagger Lee
Voodoo Lounge, Dublin
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written by Johnnie C
Aug 14, 2006.
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So, we roll up to Voodoo for Psycho Fest 2, the second all-dayer of Dublin’s “scariest” bands, as curated by gloriously psychotic gore hounds, The Things. It’s a frighteningly good idea, gathering a gang of like-minded guitar zombies and tragically samey hairstyles for a celebration of all that is gladdening and gruesome in the city’s music scene. The bands may range in quality from the sublime to the walking dead but in the spirit of all that’s unholy, there are few finer gatherings of rock n’ roll ghouls and imbibers of strong, foaming potions.
Before the majority of the crowd are too pie-eyed to care, a hush of anticipation descends like mist in a churchyard with the apparition of Stagger Lee. Two lasses and two lads, fronted by the ice-cool, killer-heeled Donna McCabe, they exude an aloof sexiness onstage before ere a note is played. When High Treason kicks off their set, Benni’s throbbing bass and Grum’s dirty, twisting guitar riffs suddenly animate even the most frigid pelvises in the room. “We don’t suffer fools,” Donna growls sultrily over the insistent rhythm of a thousand lost highway motel rooms, while her demand to “assume the position” on Bad Shoes could only be met with obedience from attentive night stalkers. Anyone who doesn’t gyrate to the glorious 45 is evidently bound for the tomb but there is a respectful and deathly silence for the hot, sticky Misery River; it’s about as steamily erotic as any song gets tonight.
The event’s spooky motif is acknowledged when Donna showers us in tarot cards, while in outrageously bearded drummer Justin, they may even have a genuine werewolf. But Stagger Lee don’t belong in a quagmire of underachieving rock n’ roll bands; their superior, oppressive redolence of jealousy, longing, loss and lust puts a yawning chasm between them and the deathly average.
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