About Black Daisy
It all kicked off in the summer of 2004 when lead singer L.A. left her home town of Limerick and came to Dublin with the sole intention of forming a band. Hanging around Dublin’s gigging scene, she met lead guitarist Steff Caffrey from Drogheda in the Temple Bar Music Centre, and the girls immediately clicked! They both had the same dream and musical taste, and after meeting up for a jamming session, they decided to form a female rock band! With a female drummer and bassist in toe, (and a different band name) they began writing recording and most importantly, gigging anywhere they could.
Within their first year the girls managed to land a slot on MTV's Breaking Point, it was a series about unsigned bands trying to make it big in today’s cut-throat music business. The girls were the only girl rock band AND the only IRISH band to feature in the series.
One of the bands first big gig was - believe it or not- performing to the male inmates of Mountjoy Prison!!! They had an absolute blast (and the girls really enjoyed themselves too)! Not long after, in early 2005, the band lost it's drummer and bass player, as the direction of the band and it's music was simply not agreeing with everyone. Lack of commitment was also an issue, so the band split. L.A. and Steff refused to give up, and decided to stick together, so they carried on writing and recording new material, and all the while using session musicians to carry on gigging. They even filmed their first music video 'Take You Over' in 2006, and from this, the name BLACK DAISY was born!!!! The girls also starred in an independent short film called 'Scratch' which received over 300,000 hits on from a student film website www.stage6.com . The film was about a band in Dublin struggling to make it and featured Black Daisy’s music as the soundtrack, and included their music video 'Take You Over' in the fictional story.
The whole time the girls kept searching for two new band members, when Steff, being quite good friends with rhythm guitarist Nicki Billings from Blessington Co. Wicklow, asked her to come and jam some day…. when it was only a few days later that L.A. found KICK-ASS drummer Asta Mileriene from Lithuania through www.myspace.com !!! Asta lives in Dublin and was flattered & delighted when L.A. asked her to come meet the band and maybe have a session….and when the four girls finally came together in the same room, there was a combined explosion of music, input and attitude!!! Black Daisy was finally complete, and the band are stronger and tighter than they have ever been before!
Black Daisy found themselves again making television appearances, this time on the Irish based talent show You’re a Star making it to the show’s top 10. With their local success and popularity growing, the band was asked to represent Ireland in the 2009 Eurovision song contest. The band brought in singer Sinead Mulvey to front the band and provide lead vocals for the track Et Cetera, however the shows higher ups felt a four-piece band backing the singer was one too many, and the band asked founder and lead guitarist Steff Caffey to leave the band. This decision would prove to be the band’s ultimate downfall, even though the single itself gained marginal mainstream attention it failed to bring home another win for Ireland, and the band’s once edgy rock sound was now lost in what many fans and reviewers dubbed as mundane bubble gum pop, and the void left without guitarist and founder Steff Caffrey left true fans uninterested in the new direction of the band. Black Daisy as a band would come to end by 2009.
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Stephen Murray wrote on 2010-06-11 00:00:00:I think Black Daisy are great, and anyone who gets the chance should go and see them - More of this sort of thing!
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