SINGLE REVIEW: ROSE CARLEO BAND – Daisy’s Song

SINGLE REVIEW: ROSE CARLEO BAND – Daisy’s Song
Independent, May 2025
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
95%

The Rose Carleo Band’s latest killer single isn’t just a great song, it’s also an important one.

The first draft of the lyrics were written by friend of the band Darren ‘Daisy’ Booth, an outpouring of emotion after a difficult life struggling with mental health issues, Clinical Depression and alcoholism.

Carleo and partner & guitarist Mick Adkins put the finishing touches to the track, bringing an irresistible melody and soaring, anthemic quality to the choruses, while drummer Mick ‘Shady’ O’Shea (Swanee, Dragon) and bassist Bill Kervin put their own inimitable and rock solid touch on Daisy‘s Song.

“This journey is mine – I’m crying out for help, I‘m ready to shine – help me find my way,” Booth wasn’t fooling around when he opened his heart to ask for help through these vulnerable lyrics, but in the expert hands of The Rose Carleo Band this sentiment becomes something not melancholy but uplifting – celebratory, revelling in the bravery that is accepting that help is needed, and believing that a better future is ahead.

Watch Daisy’s Song here:

Carleo and her band have consistently made some of the best new rock music coming out of this country, and this is EXACTLY the sort of track – mid-paced, impeccably performed and produced, instantly memorable, lyrically meaningful – which our major radio stations should be championing, and concert promoters should be bashing down their door to lock them in for support slots. That they are not doing so is simply a travesty.

The Rose Carleo Band – like Daisy’s Song – are something to be celebrated.

TOUR DATES
Friday June 29th – Marrickville Bowling Club, Marrickville NSW
Saturday October 4th – Longview Farm Party, Caffreys Flat NSW
Saturday April 11th-18th ’26 – Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe JAPAN

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Category: CD Reviews