SINCE PLAYING THEIR FIRST SHOW EVER AT THE MARCIAC JAZZ FESTIVAL IN FRANCE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE OF 5,000 JUST ONE NIGHT AFTER ROBERT PLANT & SANTANA GRACED THE VERY SAME STAGE, DAME BLASTED OUT THE CANON FROM THE VERY FIRST NOTE. FOR AN AUDIENCE WHO HAD NEVER HEARD OF THIS NEW BAND TO BE SINGING ALONG TO THE CHORUSES OF SONGS THEY'VE NEVER HEARD WAS A TESTAMENT TO LEAD SINGER VERONICA SWIFT'S SONGWRITING AND FRONT-WOMAN CAPABILITIES. DAME HAD TRANSFORMED A QUIET, JAZZ FESTIVAL AUDIENCE INTO A CROWD-SURFING, MOSH PIT THAT RUSHED THE STAGE BY THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (AS SEEN IN THEIR LIVE FOOTAGE ON YOUTUBE.)


DAME OFFICIALLY FORMED IN THE FALL OF 2024 THROUGH THE COLLABORATION OF SINGER-SONGWRITER VERONICA SWIFT AND DRUMMER/PRODUCER BRIAN VIGLIONE (THE DRESDEN DOLLS) WHO SWIFT CITES AS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON HER SINCE AGE 13. VIGLIONE DISCOVERED VERONICA THROUGH HER COVER OF THE DRESDEN DOLLS' "SING." SOON AFTER, THEY MET IN SEPTEMBER OF 2021, BUT THEIR CONNECTION DEEPENED ONCE VIGLIONE RECOGNIZED HER TRUE DESIRE TO EXPRES HERSELF THROUGH HER ORIGINAL ROCK MUSIC WHICH REMAINED UNHEARD DUE TO HER ESTABLISHED JAZZ CAREER. AFTER JOINING HER SOLO BAND AND EMBARKING ON TWO SUCCESSFUL WORLD TOURS IN '23 AND "24 WHERE SWIFT RECEIVED THE HONOR OF CHEVALIER IN THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS FROM THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, THE DEMAND FOR SWIFT'S ORIGINAL REPERTOIRE GREW, AS DID SWIFT AND VIGLIONE'S RELATIONSHIP, AND SO BEGINS THIS NEW CHAPTER WITH DAME.

DAME IS A HIGHLY THEATRICAL BAND THAT UTILIZES PROPS AND PRODUCTION TO TELL STORIES THAT EXPLORE THE LIVES AND THEMES BEHIND SOME OF THE GREAT WOMEN ARCHETYPES IN HISTORY: JOAN OF ARC, OLYMPE DE GOUGES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AND JOSEPHINE BAKER, IN PRE-WAR EUROPE. DAME’S SONGS TOUCH ON THE STRUGGLE AND FORTITUDE OF THESE WOMEN.

THE MUSICAL BACKGROUNDS OF SWIFT AND VIGLIONE SPAN FROM JAZZ TO CLASSICAL WHICH ENRICH THEIR SONGS WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY THE RAW, POWERFUL ANTHEMIC RIFFS REMINISCENT OF THE CLASSIC ROCK BANDS SUCH AS QUEEN, LED ZEPPELIN, BOSTON, AEROSMITH, CHEAP TRICK, AND THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND.

"DAME ESTABLISHES ITSELF AS TORCHBEARERS FOR A SOUND THAT CAN STILL SHAKE WALLS AND SOULS. PROVING THAT THEY'RE HERE TO REIGNITE THE FIRE.”

-ZILLIONS MAGAZINE UK

"RAW, AUTHENTIC, AND EXACTLY WHAT EVERY ROCK BAND SHOULD STRIVE FOR.”

-WE FOUND NEW MUSIC

"FEELS LIKE A RESURRECTION AND A REVOLUTION."

-ZILLION MAGAZINE UK