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The rural outskirts of British Columbia is a place where desperation lurks and the bars are full of broken-hearted dreamers wondering what the hell’s happened to them. Raised here by his grandparents and his mechanic-father, it’s no wonder that an air of domestic discord and dreams of white picket fences charge the song craft of one Leeroy Stagger.
n 1998, Stagger hit Canada’s independent music scene like a hurricane. With a voice of ferocious intensity, Stagger howled and screamed his way through several bands but it wasn’t until Hot Hot Heat took Stagger out with them on a ‘cross-Canada tour that he started to mellow out a bit. Stagger, at the ripe old age of 20, had decided to rely less on antics and focus more on his craft.
Stagger was quickly thrust into the spotlight by another high profile Victoria resident, Carolyn Mark. Stagger recalls, “She stuck a guitar in my hand one night at a hootenanny. I’d never played guitar in front of anybody before and it was the most nerve-wracking thing I’d ever done. But I’m so glad that she did that because it got me to where I am today.”
Drawing on country, rock and punk-to-the-fore influences, Leeroy reinvented himself as a powerful singer/songwriter and recorded the eponymous Six Tales of Danger EP (2002) with Tolan McNeil (Neko Case). With only 500 copies ever made, the now out-of-print recording was merely a taster of what lay ahead.
n 1998, Stagger hit Canada’s independent music scene like a hurricane. With a voice of ferocious intensity, Stagger howled and screamed his way through several bands but it wasn’t until Hot Hot Heat took Stagger out with them on a ‘cross-Canada tour that he started to mellow out a bit. Stagger, at the ripe old age of 20, had decided to rely less on antics and focus more on his craft.
Stagger was quickly thrust into the spotlight by another high profile Victoria resident, Carolyn Mark. Stagger recalls, “She stuck a guitar in my hand one night at a hootenanny. I’d never played guitar in front of anybody before and it was the most nerve-wracking thing I’d ever done. But I’m so glad that she did that because it got me to where I am today.”
Drawing on country, rock and punk-to-the-fore influences, Leeroy reinvented himself as a powerful singer/songwriter and recorded the eponymous Six Tales of Danger EP (2002) with Tolan McNeil (Neko Case). With only 500 copies ever made, the now out-of-print recording was merely a taster of what lay ahead.
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