Daisy Dares You Appears Live In London And Plays Guitar To Dispel Idea That She Is Only A Pop Singer
Daisy Dares You walked on to the stage, more or less unnoticed. All of a sudden she launched into the first track, her long blonde hair flailing around as she shook her head manically. The debut Daisy Dares You song Number One Enemy has already had good success in the UK charts.
The 16 year old doesn’t look particularly like a rock chick; indeed her debut single ‘Number One Enemy’ features Chipmunk – hardly known for his rock tendencies – but she was soon brandishing a guitar and rocking out like the best of them. She looked slightly out of place amongst her band mates (who are all quite a bit older than her) but held her own throughout the show, struggling only to fully engage the audience, who were an older than average crowd lacking the teenybopper energy you’d expect at a gig like this.
Daisy reminded me of the UK’s answer to Ashley Simpson, or perhaps our very own Pixie Lott gone wrong. Toward the end of the set, she broke into a punk-pop version of the Oliver! song ‘Who Will Buy?’ I couldn’t decide if it was sheer genius or completely awful, particularly as the middle section turned into a head banging competition between her and her guitarist. Perhaps if I were 10 years younger, I might have appreciated her style a bit more, but, whilst I can’t fault her enthusiasm and energy on stage, felt she had a lot to learn about actual stage presence.
