Daisy Chainsaw
{{short description|Band}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Daisy Chainsaw
| image = Katie Crispin.jpg
| caption = KatieJane Garside and Crispin Gray performing with Daisy Chainsaw, 1991.
| image_size = 230
| alias =
| origin = London, England, United Kingdom
| genre = {{Flatlist|*Alternative rock
| years_active = 1989–1995
| label = Deva Records, One Little Indian, A&M Records (US)
| associated_acts = Queenadreena
| website =
| current_members =
| past_members = KatieJane Garside
Crispin Gray
Richard Adams
Vince Johnson
Belinda Leith
}}
Daisy Chainsaw were an English rock group who were active between 1989 and 1994 started by guitarist and songwriter Crispin Gray. The group's original lead vocalist KatieJane Garside appeared on the band's early EPs and 1992 debut album, Eleventeen, before departing in 1993. Lead vocalist Belinda Leith replaced Garside for the group's final album, released in 1994. The group made an impact on alternative scene throughout Europe.
Career
The band formed in 1989 after KatieJane Garside answered an advertisement placed by guitarist Crispin Gray in the music press. Their gigs included grapevines and rag dolls strewn across the stage, and Garside thrashing around in soiled gowns drinking juice from a baby bottle.{{cite web|url=http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/uk/daisy+chainsaw|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715193535/http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/uk/daisy+chainsaw|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2011|work=Rock Detector|title=Music Might: Daisy Chainsaw|access-date=26 December 2010}}Daisy Chainsaw segment, Rapido — [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEmQdaYqzk YouTube]
The band were successful with their Love Sick Pleasure EP which included the hit single, "Love Your Money" - primarily due to prime time appearances on ITV's The Chart Show and Channel 4's The Word. However, they had to decline appearing on BBC TV's Top of the Pops because Garside had a throat infection. Love Your Money reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1992.{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 138}}
Turning down an offer to be signed to Madonna's Maverick record label, they later signed to the indie label, One Little Indian. The follow-up singles Pink Flower (UK number 65) and Hope Your Dreams Come True were only moderately successful, as was their debut album Eleventeen (1992), peaking on the UK Albums Chart at number 62.
In support of Eleventeen, the band toured extensively in the United Kingdom with grunge band Mudhoney, who were supporting their new release, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991), and alternative rock band Hole, who were also supporting their debut, Pretty on the Inside (1991). Hole frontwoman Courtney Love cited KatieJane Garside as one of the "first true riot grrls" alongside herself and Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland, although none of these bands were directly associated with the riot grrl movement.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/neg94d/katiejane-garside-ruby-throat-interview-2018|title=Searching for Utopia: An Interview with KatieJane Garside|first=Chris Bethell,Emma|last=Garland|website=Vice.com|date=8 October 2018|access-date=3 December 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ac849983-1a64-4b70-aee1-3dc1fe2b43c7|work=BBC|title=KatieJane Garside: Biography|access-date=2 January 2011}}
In 1992, they toured the UK alongside Sheep on Drugs and Elephant Witch.{{cite web |last1=Shepherd |first1=Fiona |title=Chainsaw Massacre 2½ |url=https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/1992-03-13/29/ |publisher=The List |access-date=1 July 2019 |date=13 March 1992}}
In 1993, Garside left the band and disappeared from the music scene and from the public eye. Due to her manic onstage histrionics and bizarre behaviour in interviews, rumours circulated that Garside had fallen into mental illness. Garside reportedly moved to a house in the Lake District{{cite web|url=http://www.toutpartout.be/adreena/adreenaRbody.htm|title=KatieJane Garside Biography|work=Tout Part Out|access-date=2011-02-09|archive-date=26 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726152017/http://www.toutpartout.be/adreena/adreenaRbody.htm|url-status=dead}} and was publicly unheard of until 1999.
Belinda Leith (previously Queen B, London Records 1990) now joined as Daisy Chainsaw's lead vocalist, signing to One Little Indian and recording the final Daisy Chainsaw album For They Know Not What They Do. After touring England to promote the album in 1993 the album was released the next year. Leith left before the album's release to collaborate on other projects and sing on Terry Hall's album Home, released in 1994. She is featured in the video and front cover for the single "Forever J".
The three remaining members renamed themselves Dizzy Q Viper and released an EP with Crispin Gray on vocals, before splitting up. After Dizzy Q Viper, Vapid Dolly was created, and this band was made up of Dizzy Q Viper members with the addition of Hanayo as lead vocals. The new millennium saw Garside and Gray musically reuniting to form Queenadreena.{{cite web |last1=Robertson |first1=Mark |title=Exposure: Queen Adreena |url=https://archive.list.co.uk/the-list/2000-05-25/48/ |publisher=The List |access-date=1 July 2019 |date=25 May 2000}} Garside currently plays in Liar, Flower{{Cite web|date=2020-06-24|title=Ep181: KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, Liar,Flower, Queen Adreena)|url=https://www.radioneutron.com/2020/06/24/ep181-katiejane-garside-daisy-chainsaw-liarflower-queen-adreena/|access-date=2020-06-24|website=Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal|language=en-US|archive-date=27 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627080321/https://www.radioneutron.com/2020/06/24/ep181-katiejane-garside-daisy-chainsaw-liarflower-queen-adreena/|url-status=dead}} and Gray plays in Starsha Lee in addition to his own solo project, Alien Airforce.
Crispin Gray was interviewed at length in May 2021 about the formation and history of Daisy Chainsaw in addition to his subsequent bands.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRMzAMriVo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/JkRMzAMriVo |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Interview with Crispin Gray (Guitarist for Starsha Lee; ex-Queenadreena, ex-Daisy Chainsaw)|date=26 May 2021 |access-date=21 August 2021|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} "Love Your Money" will be reissued as a limited edition 7" single in Spring 2024 via Easy Action Records.{{cite web | url=https://easyaction.co.uk/product/daisy-chainsaw-love-your-money-ltd-7/ | title=Daisy Chainsaw " Love Your Money " Ltd 7" Coloured Vinyl }}
Discography
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+Daisy Chainsaw studio albums |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Album details ! scope="col" colspan="1"| Peak chart positions |
|---|
| scope="col" | UK {{Cite web |url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/daisy%20chainsaw |title=DAISY CHAINSAW - the Official Charts Company |access-date=4 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809142612/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/daisy%20chainsaw/ |archive-date=9 August 2011 |url-status=dead }} |
| scope="row"| Eleventeen
|
| 62 |
| scope="row"| For They Know Not What They Do
|
| — |
| colspan="14" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released. |
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+Daisy Chainsaw EPs |
| scope="col"|Title
! scope="col"|Album details |
|---|
| scope="row"| Love Sick Pleasure
|
|
| scope="row"| Pipachi
|
|
| scope="row"| You're Gruesome
|
|
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+Daisy Chainsaw singles |
| scope="col" rowspan="2"|Title
! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Year ! scope="col" colspan="1" |Peak chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" |Album |
|---|
| scope="col" | UK |
| scope="row"| "Love Your Money"
| 1991 | 26 | rowspan="3"| Eleventeen |
| scope="row"| "Pink Flower" / "Room Eleven"
| rowspan="2"| 1992 | 65 |
| scope="row"| "Hope Your Dreams Come True"
| — |
| scope="row"| "The Future Free"
| rowspan="2"| 1994 | — | rowspan="2"| For They Know Not What They Do |
| scope="row"| "Love Me Forever"
| — |
| colspan="14" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released. |
References
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External links
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Category:Indie rock groups from London
Category:One Little Independent Records artists
Category:Musical groups established in 1989