06/26/2023
Just Announced: August-September European Tour
Headline Shows + Festivals Including Superbloom and Reeperbahn
Today, indie pop band Daisy the Great share “Looking U Up,” the first song from an EP coming out later this summer. The hooky new song has an accompanying music video out today.
Watch video here
Stream song here
“’Looking U Up’ is a song about dating in the age of social media. It’s about getting stuck on someone that you can’t stop thinking about – whether that’s a crush or an ex or a new fling – and the constant access you can have to them online. It’s such a big time suck to get lost in that made up space of the internet and, a lot of the time, the version of that person that you have in your head isn’t even what they’re like in real life. It’s about being addicted to phone world — it’s bad for you but it’s your vice and you just can’t quit!!!” – Daisy the Great
The new track follows the band’s five-week US headline tour that saw over a dozen sold out dates. It also celebrates the band’s recently announced European Tour that will kick off this August in Ljubljana, Slovenia and continue through to the end of September. The headline tour features stops at festivals including Superbloom in Munich and Reeperbahn in Hamburg.
Last fall the band released their sophomore album ALL YOU NEED IS TIME, generating over 240mm global streams to date.
“There’s something breezy and refreshingly uncomplicated about the indie-pop sounds of Daisy the Great—even when the subject matter of their music delves into the complex.”
– FLOOD Magazine
“[‘Glitter’ is] a dreamy, inspiring alternative anthem to let our light shine.”
– Atwood Magazine
AUGUST
30 – Ljubljana, SI – Kino Siska
31 – Vienna, AT – Chelsea
SEPTEMBER
2 – Munich, DE – Superbloom Festival
4 – Milano, IT – Arci Belleza
6 – Aarau, CH – Kiff
8 – Frankfurt, DE – Nachtleben
9 – Dresden, DE – Sound Of Bronkow Festival
11 – Lille, F – L´aeronef
12 – London, UK – Moth Club
13 – Manchester, UK – Yes
15 – Dublin, IE – Workmans
16 – Belfast, IE – Deers Head
18 – Paris, F – La Boule Noir
19 – Antwerp, BE – Amor
20 – Cologne, DE – Helios37
21 – Rotterdam, NL – Rotown
22-23 – Hamburg, DE – Reeperbahn Festival
24 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega
25 – Berlin, DE – Badehaus
26 – Munich, DE – Kranhalle
As Daisy the Great, Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker make folk-inflected indie rock that spans a multitude of moods, capable of being clever, devastating, or both simultaneously, spanning harmony-laden pop to powerhouse balladry. The pair first met as acting majors at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where they began co-writing a musical about a fictional band before realizing they could make it happen in real life and set out as Daisy the Great.
2017 saw Daisy the Great make an auspicious debut with “The Record Player Song,” which quickly proved an immediate smash now boasting over 20M worldwide streams and multiple viral moments on TikTok. A full-length debut LP, I’m Not Getting Any Taller, arrived in 2019, followed in 2020 by the quarantine-born Soft Songs EP. In 2021, Daisy the Great teamed with acclaimed indie-pop trio AJR for “Record Player,” a brand new song inspired by their original 2017 hit, available at all DSPs and streaming services HERE. An official animated video now boasting close to 3M views is streaming via YouTube HERE.
Having now grown into a full six-piece band currently featuring Matt Lau on guitar, Bernardo Ochoa on bass, Matti Dunietz on drums, and Brie Archer on additional vocals, Daisy the Great first heralded ALL YOU NEED IS TIME with the dazzling “Glitter,” available for streaming and download HERE. Hailed by Atwood Magazine as “a dreamy, inspiring alternative anthem to let our light shine,” the track is joined by an official music video – directed and edited by Dugan and Walker – streaming now via YouTube HERE. An entrancing “Press Play” performance is viewable on the official Recording Academy/GRAMMYs YouTube channel HERE. The band also visited 90.9 The Bridge in KC for a session that NPR included in their 2022 “Sessions of The Year” list and appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show Me Music” series, available on the show’s Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook channels. 2023 saw the band releasing a new version of “Tell Me Have You Been Dancing” featuring vocals from indie pop artist Claud as well as a new acoustic lofi version of their album track “Glitter” called “Glitter 2”.
“Our music is generally pretty introspective, and we are often interested in the complexities or ironies we see within ourselves,” Dugan says. “That’s something we love about writing—you can say something small and delicate and true that maybe feels scary to say, but once you put it out there, it can turn into a comfort for anyone that might also be feeling that way.”
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