we are the daggers we are in a collective original dance band which means that we write original music and a whole variety of different oftentimes we will add a touch of our humor or our political views occasionally or just have some kind of message gabriel and i  was for the band was originally formed i was going to go into a little bit of backstory gabriel have been playing music together since we were and high school we met after school and i went off to college and started playing some of those songs in my band and then eventually graduated to a two person touring sidewalk street show called the sidewalk circus that was i got an email from kyle when i was living in europe asking me to replace a guitar player and my visa was running up in europe so i decided i would come back and play yeah gabriel was in germany and he had to either get married get a job or go to school and obviously it's like you don't want to do any of those things come back to america and be in iraq and roll band  there's no formula to the way we write our songs sometimes kyle will start the song and i'll finish it i usually try to separate my politics from a lot of my music i don't consider myself to be an activist through my music or i don't consider myself to be political through my music but we do have a song called on fuck the earth which is about the environment and preserving the environment preserving what we have which is finite the song on fox the earth was really written into its response to how fucked up things are these days and the hope that humanity can come together the daggers originated on cape cod and we were able to establish ourselves in the tourist restaurant and bar scene where they have money to spend on bands mostly they want cover bands but we came with our own brand of original material and somehow managed to still get paid so eventually with our support from our fan base on cape cod we moved to brooklyn i never thought of the risk involved in playing original music only thought the risk of being labeled as a cover band for the rest of my life playing original music is not the easiest role of the do she kind of captain that you love to hate and then gabriel's more of the half human soul this cold business oriented detail minded i met david david our saxophone player in the subway when i was busking and i had actually seen him by asking he came up to me and i thought he wanted my spot and he just wanted to listen to me play on my i got a drum set made out of garbage that i made out of garbage and i gave him the card and next thing you know he's been in the band for months now and we love him our goals for the future are to reach broader audiences to expand our fan base to have more opportunities now that we live in new york city and just to get our music heard by as many people as possible or on a path to immortal rock n roll greatness but we are looking to grow we are looking we are aiming high into a houseboat that he lives on most of the year we played more formal events official events on the beach at herring cove in provincetown cape  cod random house parties some of the most fun shows are not very official or advertiser publicized we'll see you on the road america