Starlight is the first track from Daisy's forthcoming album "She Took Flight", released spring 2023. This will be Daisy's 4th full length studio album since 2009. Starlight is a song about music, and the live-giving energy it produces, much like our nearest star, The Sun. Recorded with Red Carousel Quartet on strings in Melksham, and vocals, piano and drums recorded at the historic Studio Nord in Bremen, Germany, the rest of the album will follow suit in sound and style.

She Took Flight

Starlight

Porcelain documents one day in January 2017, where we as a family entered a hospital in Surrey on a cold, grey morning after an emergency call with news we'd feared. In the hospital cafe, an old school friend spotted me and happily bounded over. She'd just had a baby, I'd just lost my Dad. One life ends, another begins. The rich circle of life we are all so familiar with.

She Took Flight, the album, will be released in May 2023

Porcelain

In June 2013 I was asked to write a song based on two letters sent to a woman in Bristol during WW1. BBC Bristol were in possession of these notes, and the content was to be immortalised in the form of a love song to commemorate 100 years since the beginning of World War One. 

The subject of the letters? Love letters? Poetry? No, notes from a padre at a military hospital in France informing the desperate wife of Private James Brain that he had received a schrapnel wound to the leg and would not make it through the night. The second letter informed Lizzie Brain that her husband had passed away peacefully and he had been buried with military honours. Yes, perfect fodder for a Daisy Chapman miserable classic, but these were REAL people, and their family had selected ME as the scribe for their lament. So I was pretty touched (and terrified) to have been singled out for this massive task. 

In November 2013, my violinist Sue and I were in France on tour and took a detour to Abbeville Cemetery and found Captain Brain's grave. It was amazing to pay tribute to someone who's featured in a song and became so close to my heart. What a sobering day. 

Armistace day 2014, the song is now available as a download with all proceeds going to the British Legion.

Last December

Growing up with 3 sisters and yearning for the snow day. A sweet and charming song about the innocence of youth.

Home Fires

A gentle song of luck with an incredibly climatic finish

Good Luck Song

I've been a musician in Bristol for 20 years, time to hand over to the next generation? Never!

Generation Next

A 6 minute preview of every song on the new Shameless Winter album. 

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Title track from the new album Shameless Winter

Shameless Winter

Track 4 from the new album Shameless Winter

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