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ChartBlog: Hi, how are you?
Daisy: I'm good thank you, how're you?

ChartBlog: I'm very well indeed. Where've you been?
Daisy: Where have I been?

ChartBlog: Yeah, it's been difficult to get hold of you, apparently.
Daisy: I've been in my hotel, but the signal's really bad.

ChartBlog: Ah. The scenario in my head was that you, a young lady, was getting bored of being told by grown-ups to be at certain places at certain times, and had shouted "stuff off grandad! I'm going to the shops to get chewing gum!". Is it not like that?
Daisy: [laughs] No, not at all.

ChartBlog: So, congratulations on your nomination for the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Sound of 2010 thing. That's not bad going, is it?
Daisy: Yes. It's very positive and exciting. I mean I haven't released anything yet, so it's a good thing to get early. Everyone else has released or at least the majority have so it's a really good sign.

ChartBlog: Are you feeling the pressure to live up to it, or do you not care?
Daisy: No, of course I care. It's an interesting process, isn't it. You talk to people and then they write something about you and they quote something you haven't said, so...yeah, great. But it's good...

ChartBlog: Where's that happened?
Daisy: No, it's not like a certain thing. It's more, like, description words that you don't use. You know what I mean? It's weird.

ChartBlog: So it's hard to hear people describe what you do in a way which is totally alien to what you think you're doing?
Daisy: Yeah, yeah I guess so.

ChartBlog: So Chipmunk's a guest on your first single...will he literally appear on anyone's record if you ask him? Was there any gap between you saying "let's get Chipmunk in" and him saying "yeah, I'll do it"?
Daisy: [unimpressed] Mmm. We met up and he was really interested in the song. We got on really well, we hung out in the studio, it was interesting...hanging out together, getting to know what I wrote the song about, getting a feeling of who I was, he gave it a go and it stuck.

ChartBlog: How did you meet him in the first place?
Daisy: He's on the same label as me, we have the same A&R man, so we've bumped into each other a few times.

ChartBlog: One of the things I first heard by you was your cover of 'Who Will Buy' from the musical Oliver!, which is really good. Is there a story behind deciding to to that as a cover?
Daisy: I have a little brother who's a little actor kind of guy, he does drama and stuff. And he did Oliver! and I kind of had the song in my head. I was singing it a lot around the studio, cos it was in my head. My co-writer was like "what are you singing?"

We were with another guy, Ally who was the guitarist with Texas, and he started conjuring up some kind of chord progression. We'd written a song in the morning and thought "why don't we do it? It'll be interesting to see how it turns out".

ChartBlog: You mentioned earlier about how strange it is to write songs and then read what people have to say about them. Especially online. Do you read a lot of that stuff?
Daisy: To be honest with you, I don't spend time on the internet. I have a life! I don't really go online. I don't read stuff. I mean a lot of people's perception is really not what it's about. Y'know, I'm not like a little girl who writes about fancying boys. I'm a musician, I've been brought up around musicians for my entire life.

I write my own songs, I write about what's happening in my life. I write stuff that's important to me. I'm in a band with my mates, and it's very band-driven and heavy live. We've flipped it on its head really. It's very much what I wanna be and what I'm inspired by. I'm really inspired by the presence of Courtney Love onstage, and Alison Mosshart and Debbie Harry, Morrissey, the Breeders. It's the music I've been brought up around and I capture that live, y'know...

People don't know that yet, cos I'm not in-and-out so y'know I've got a lot more than people think. There's a lot more to it, which is exciting.

ChartBlog: Do you think in some ways the advance publicity - like Sound of 2010 - gets in the way? If people think of you as being a record-company-created successor to someone like Pixie Lott - because of the way in which they first discovered you - rather than what you just described...
Daisy: Well, at the end of the day, anyone who's big in their profile is because it's over time, it's over a couple of albums. When the album comes out, people really know, because an album represents an artist, not a single.

People can say what they want...the Pixie Lott thing, y'know, great, write what you want. You haven't really thought about it, you haven't seen me live, you haven't met me, you don't really know, y'know? It's gonna build up, whenever it started, so I don't regret not coming out earlier.

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