Strikemagazine

Issue 12

Daisy’s StoryStory of the month: exclusive interview with Daisy, read inside to

discover the reasons why she has stopped making music!

£2.50Feb 2010

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Dirty DetailFind out what they’ve been up to inbetween producing

their latest album!

TOP 10Guitar solos of the month

Behind the scenes:

At the Brit Awards 2010 with:

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FREEVoucher for HMV Chart

list for February!

• The Verve

• Muse

• Kasabian

plus many many more...

Find out how you can enter

the unsigned band awards this

summer

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Contents pageBands featuring this week!Bob DylanColdplayDaft PunkDirty DetailKeaneKasabianLou ReedMuseMaximo ParkOasisQueens of the Stone AgeRed Hot Chilli PeppersStereophonicsSteriogramTenacious D

Special features this monthDaisy’s Story page 3Exclusive interview had with Daisy Forster, the new talent on everyone’s lips.

Behind the scenes at the Brit Awards 2010 page 8Featuring many bands that were seen at the Brit Awards, featuring short interviews had with the bands before and after.

Dirty Detail- their new album page 15Find out about the ins and outs of their new album released soon. Exclusive information! Discover the reason behind Pat and

Ben’s recent falling out..

Top 10 Guitar solos this month page 17Chosen by you we have arranged the top 10 guitar solos from the past month and are releasing the results of the voting that went on.

Friendly Fires page 25Tour dates revealed!

Turn to page 15 to discover behind the scenes information on Dirty Detail’s new album plus why ben and pat fell out!

Daisy’sStory

Exclusive this month!Read on to discover the truth behind the recent rumours in the media.

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“I love producing music”

“I actually have a lot of fans!”

‘Daisy Forster’. The name that seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment as her new found fame has began to hit the headlines in all the music Magazines in the past few months. However, after I read that she was struggling to keep up with her now busy scheduled life, and the talk of her taking a long-term break from her new found success, I wanted to find out a little more to do with the actual reasons behind the media expressing that she was having doubts about her career as an indie ‘rock star’. Having spoken to her recently signed manager, I arranged a date to meet her before her upcoming gig at the end of this month.

Meeting Daisy.We met in a quiet pub in town, late afternoon. She told me she would prefer to meet at this time as she had a busy day ahead of her, I could understand as she would have been practising for her gig. As you are all probably aware, she is headlining at the Carling Academy in Birmingham soon, quite an achievement if you ask me!Daisy first started speaking about how excited she was about what had been going on in her life at the moment. She told me about how it all started when she had won a competition in one of her local pubs, something which I’m sure you already know. She then went on to explain how she became one of very few people

to be entered into another round where the judges decided who deserved the privilege of having a company sign them, and help them to produce their music professionally. As we all know, she won this competition and has since become very successful as a new artist in a very short space of time. One of the things that the media seem to have found most interesting about Daisy, putting aside her incredible talent,

is the fact that she is in fact a normal Muslim girl from Selly Oak, studying at a local college. I’m sure it never crossed our minds that these things would be much of a problem and have an effect of her music, but as we know it is something that has been brought up in the press recently.During certain parts of our interview or ‘informal chat’ as I like to call them, Daisy couldn’t seem to stop smiling as she reminisced about the recent ‘going-ons’ and what she had been doing. Beside this however, I could tell that something else was on her mind. She looked down into her vodka and coke with a vacant look on her face; I felt that then was the right time to ask her about the rumours in the other magazines that I had read about prior to

our meeting. She took a while to respond to what I had asked but after a few seconds and another drink she really opened up to me. Daisy said that she didn’t mind me publishing in this month’s article what she had told me.

The Truth. I asked her if she had seen the recent headlines and if it was true that she was considering taking a break from producing music. She told me that this was in fact correct and her gig at the end of this month was possibly her last for a long time. She talked about the importance of her religion and how her mother was finding it a problem for her to perform on stage in front of a lot of young men, and wear the certain clothes that she had been wearing at her gigs. Daisy explained that her mother felt if she was to continue to produce music, especially at this tender age of 18, it would be going completely against her religious beliefs and morals as a young Muslim girl. I dared to ask if she agreed with her mother and as to why she was taking a break from her music if it was something that she felt so passionately about. Daisy then explained that she did partly agree with her mother, and although she had always worn the clothes that she wanted to, she also thought that her new success as a whole was coming in the way

of her studies at college. As she had said in previous interviews, as well as pursuing her music career she planned to go university after studying A levels at college. She said she is now beginning to realise that this may not be possible if she continues to take time off college, allowing time to produce her music and practise for her upcoming gigs. I asked Daisy if she thought she would go back to producing music after she completes college or even after she has studied at university. ‘Definitely’ she said, I love producing music and performing at gigs. I still feel incredibly overwhelmed at the response that I have had from people, I mean.. I actually have a lot of fans!’ I could tell from this Daisy was still in shock that she had become so

successful and very thankful towards thepeople that had helped her since winning the competition to be signed to a record label. I thanked Daisy for her time and wished her all the success in the future. I asked her if it was okay to arrange another interview with her in a few months time, she said that was fine. Be sure to keep track of Strike magazine in the months to come for the next exclusive news about Daisy Forster!

Daisy in her muslim traditional dress. I was shocked when she allowed me to take these photographs, I’m sure you have never seen her dressed like this either!