Maisi

Maisie Harriet Brand Bourke (born 24 February 2001), known professionally as Maisi, is a British musician and social media personality from south-east London. The daughter of Jo Brand, she co-founded Loud LDN, a collective of women and non-binary musicians, and The Cxnty School Disco, a club night. She has also released several singles and supported Piri & Tommy on their Froge.tour.

Life and career Maisie Harriet Brand Bourke was born on 24 February 2001 (unbulleted list citebundle|For 24 February, see .|For 2001, see Her parents are comedian Jo Brand and Bernie Bourke, both former psychiatric nurses, and a tabloid congratulated Brand on Maisi's arrival a week before she was actually born.) Bourke grew up in south-east London and has a younger sister, Eliza. and initially wanted to be a songwriter, she found herself surrounded by others interested in performing and realised she also wanted to perform. she later started dating him.

At the start of 2022, after seeing that the musician Piri had moved from Manchester to London, Bourke contacted her as she felt she would benefit from having local friends. she met her for brunch, where they discussed the loneliness of being a woman in the music industry and how they were often pitted against each other. called Ladies Making Noise in London for the women and non-binary musicians they knew at that time. the addition of other members increased its membership to forty people, prompting them to set up an Instagram page, Loud LDN.

By May 2022, she had released two songs, "Guess I'm In Love" and "Yellow Line"; that month, Kent and Sussex Courier reported that they had been streamed "nearly 60,000" and "over 50,000" times respectively. On 8 November 2022, she supported Piri & Tommy on the Scala leg of their Froge.tour. a drum and bass song written about their feelings about success going to artists' heads, and which was promoted with a video directed, produced, and edited by Maisi. That November, she supported Piri on her "Extra Hot" tour. She released an EP, Girl!!!, in 2024; by March 2025, she had created The Cxnty School Disco, described by Truck Festival that month as a "quirky club night specialising in 2000s bangers and all things hyperpop and indie sleaze". In November 2025, she and Brand appeared on Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening.

Artistry and personal life Bourke has cited lyrical inspiration from Lily Allen and Baby Queen, and musical inspiration from Charli XCX, Baby Queen, Dylan, and Mimi Webb. "Yellow Line" was inspired by Baby Queen's EP Medicine, which she had discovered shortly before recording the track, as well as several Charli XCX tracks. in which she attempted to diversify Richer's meals beyond chicken nuggets and chips, was viewed over 1,000,000 times; the series attracted coverage from the Daily Mail, The Sun, and the Daily Mirror. By August 2023, her restrictive eating series had been viewed over 20,000,000 times, Maldon Nub noted in May 2023 that they had raised "more than £2,200". who had attempted to run the race with Lock in 2010. Label: Self-released Format: Digital download, streaming

Released: 9 August 2024 Label: Self-released Format: Digital download, streaming

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