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We Brits have been amazingly sniffy when it comes to homegrown pop-punk girlies - just ask everybody from Love Bites to Alex Roots - but 16-year-old Daisy Coburn may be the one to exterminate the collective snarl. She is blonde and photogenic, in possession of lots of ‘tude and has even bagged a Chipmunk cameo for her debut single Number One Enemy.

Well, what are labelmates there for, eh? Best of all, the single itself is a little bit of a blast. Electrified by teen quarrels with her “really neurotic” sister, ‘Number One Enemy’ is a synthy tiny pop-punk ditty with quite as much fizz as a Mento dropped into a bottle of Coke ( if you have not attempted it, do ). “Take off, take off, Daisy’s about to take off,” Chipmunk envisions around two thirds thru. When the big snarly chorus hits, you could find it difficult to not agree. Teens would routinely expect disapproving looks if they raised their voices in a library. But a 16-year-old pop star is expecting a much hotter reception when she turns up at Edinburgh’s Central Library to play a gig. Daisy Dares You, a gifted singer-songwriter who has been named one of the BBC’s rising stars for 2010, will be appe ad aring at the music library this month. It is a component of her Get It Loud in Libraries tour, and one of her first appearances in Scotland. It’s the first time the library has hosted a pop concert which is targeted at a younger audience. Daisy, whose real last name is Coburn, is about to release her first single, Number One Enemy, the week after next, which also includes chart-topper Chipmunk. Regardless of her age, there had been a record label bidding war for her signature before she was finally gobbled up by Sony. Her music is described as “bubblegum punk”, with songs on the subjects of closeness, families and fancying boys. The town council grouped up with Stewart Pearson, a music librarian and founding father of Get It Loud in Libraries, to organise the event.