{{good article}} {{Other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Maisi | image = Maisi performing in London, 2024.png | alt = | caption = Maisi performing in London, 2024 | birth_name = Maisie Harriet Brand Bourke | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|2001|2|24|df=y}} | birth_place = Camberwell, London, England | origin = | genre = {{flat list| *Electropop *drum and bass }} | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|social media personality}} | years_active = | label = | current_member_of = Loud LDN | past_member_of = | website = }} '''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<ref>{{Cite web |title=YELLOW LINE |url=https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace/search/workID/913260665 |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=ASCAP}}</ref> was born on 24 February 2001{{efn|{{unbulleted list citebundle|For 24 February, see <ref>{{Cite tweet |date=23 February 2025 |title=Birthday eve meal!!! |number=1893758014173159584|user=maisimaisimaisi}}</ref>.|For 2001, see <ref name="csu"/>.}}}} in King's College Hospital.<ref name="auto7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/577092.jo-hates-jazz/|title=Jo hates jazz|date=10 March 2005|website=This Is Local London}}</ref> Her parents are comedian Jo Brand and Bernie Bourke, both former psychiatric nurses,<ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/richard-osmans-house-games-jo-21772267|title=Jo Brand's adorable 24-year marriage and social media star daughter|first=Sylvie|last=Wilkinson|date=5 October 2021|website=MyLondon}}</ref> and a tabloid congratulated Brand on Maisi's arrival a week before she was actually born.<ref name="csu">{{Cite book |last=Brand |first=Jo |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Can_t_Stand_Up_For_Sitting_Down/F37HwoFAAbsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=maisie+%22jo+brand%22+2002&pg=PT128&printsec=frontcover |title=Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down |date=2010-10-28 |publisher=Headline |isbn=978-0-7553-5929-5 |language=en}}</ref> Bourke grew up in south-east London<ref name="shift">{{cite web |date=30 January 2023 |title=_shift talks: Where are the women? |url=https://www.shiftlondon.org/news/_shift-talks-where-are-the-women-brits-2023/ |access-date=7 May 2023 |publisher=Shift London}}</ref> and has a younger sister,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Sherwin |first=Adam |date=2024-04-19 |title=Jo Brand on how not to get cancelled: My TikTok star daughter tells me what to do |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/radio/jo-brand-interview-cancelled-tiktok-daughter-3011085 |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> Eliza.<ref name="auto7" /> She started writing songs when she was eleven<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kentlive.news/news/celebs-tv/times-jo-brand-joined-tiktok-7097138|title=Jo Brand joins her TikTok famous daughter for some surprise cameos|first=Sam|last=Honey|date=18 May 2022|website=KentLive}}</ref> and initially wanted to be a songwriter,<ref name="shift" />. However, after attending the London branch of British and Irish Modern Music Institute,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.bimm.co.uk/maisi-yellow-line|title=Maisi - Yellow Line|date=28 March 2022|website=BIMM Blog}}</ref> she found herself surrounded by others interested in performing and realised she also wanted to perform.<ref name="shift" /> In the first week of the course in 2019, she met Alfie Richer,<ref name="auto6" /> an Essex-based musician who performs as Essex Blonde;<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-21 |title=Matty Whelan at Half Moon - Putney, London on 21 Apr 2024 |url=https://tickets.halfmoon.co.uk/events/2024-04-21-matty-whelan-half-moon-putney#:~:text=Essex%20Blonde%20is%20the%20alter,music%20for%20the%20internet%20age. |access-date=2024-08-16 |website=The Half Moon Putney}}</ref> she later started dating him.<ref name="auto6">{{Cite web |last1=Black |first1=Leo |last2=Blackburne |first2=Elaine |date=20 January 2023 |title=Musician's bid to change 'chicken nugget and fries' diet of boyfriend |url=https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/real-life/musician-desperate-change-diet-boyfriend-8054827 |website=HullLive}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":3" /> After discovering the musician Coupdekat via TikTok,<ref name="nme">{{cite web |date=19 December 2022 |title="We're taking over the scene": meet Loud LDN, dance music's most vibrant new collective |url=https://www.nme.com/features/music-interviews/loud-ldn-drum-n-bass-revival-piri-venbee-lucy-tun-radar-3367338 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115185851/https://www.nme.com/features/music-interviews/loud-ldn-drum-n-bass-revival-piri-venbee-lucy-tun-radar-3367338 |archive-date=15 January 2023 |access-date=15 January 2023 |publisher=NME}}</ref> 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.<ref name="shift" /> This prompted the pair to set up a group chat<ref name="nme" /> on WhatsApp<ref name="rollingstone">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/features/caity-baser-i-want-to-become-the-most-successful-singer-in-the-world-28118/|title=Caity Baser: 'I want to become the most successful singer in the world'|work=Rolling Stone|date=29 March 2023 |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref> called Ladies Making Noise in London for the women and non-binary musicians they knew at that time.<ref name="nme" /> Initially starting with ten musicians including Piri<ref name="nme" /> and Matilda Cole,<ref name="evi">{{cite web|url=https://www.shiftlondon.org/news/loud-ldn-x-spotify-the-collaboration-to-tune-into/|title=Loud LDN X Spotify: The collaboration to tune to|date=11 May 2023 |publisher=Shift London|accessdate=6 June 2023}}</ref> the addition of other members increased its membership to forty people, prompting them to set up an Instagram page, Loud LDN.<ref name="shift" /> By June 2023, the chat had grown to 120 members and had moved to Discord.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 March 2023 |title=Q&A: Coupdekat Talks London Music Scene, New EP & Collective Loud LDN |url=https://www.thelunacollective.co/journal/qa-coupdekat |access-date=3 July 2023 |website=THE LUNA COLLECTIVE |language=en-US}}</ref>

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.<ref name="auto5" /> "Yellow Line" was a reference to road markings and explored the regret Bourke felt after only saying a quick goodbye to Richer at a train platform on 23 March 2020, the day before the pair were prohibited from seeing each other by the territory's Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020.<ref name="auto" />

In June 2022, she released the single "Quick Fixes", a song about cosmetic adverts she had seen online for expensive skin care, diets, health food, and facial fillers, and was her attempt at conveying their superfluity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://maldon.nub.news/news/local-news/musician-maisi-on-her-new-single-her-mum-jo-brand-and-her-plans-to-take-on-the-maldon-mud-race-again-in-2023-139339|title=Musician Maisi on her new single, her mum Jo Brand, and her plans to take on the Maldon Mud Race again in 2023|date=27 June 2022|website=Maldon Nub News}}</ref> On 8 November 2022,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holden |first=Finlay |date=21 September 2022 |title=piri & tommy have announced their debut project, 'froge.mp3' |url=https://readdork.com/news/piri-tommy-announce-debut-project-froge-mp3/ |access-date=25 August 2023 |website=Dork |language=en-US}}</ref> she supported Piri & Tommy on the Scala leg of their Froge.tour.<ref name=":3" /> By August 2023, she had released "123", which had seen use in over 3,000 TikTok videos.<ref name=":3" /> That month, she and Piri released "Head",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Sam |date=25 August 2023 |title=Maisi and piri have teamed up for a new single, 'head' |url=https://readdork.com/news/maisi-piri-single-head/ |access-date=25 August 2023 |website=Dork |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Piri shares new collaboration with Maisi • WithGuitars |url=https://www.withguitars.com/piri-shares-new-collaboration-with-maisi/ |access-date=25 August 2023 |website=www.withguitars.com |language=en-gb}}</ref> That November, she supported Piri on her "Extra Hot" tour.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blissett |first=Ben |date=8 November 2023 |title=Gig Review: Piri at Rescue Rooms - Leftlion - Nottingham Culture |url=https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2023/11/gig-review-piri-at-rescue-rooms/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=LeftLion |language=en |archive-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109104341/https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2023/11/gig-review-piri-at-rescue-rooms/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maisi – Truck Festival 2025 |url=https://truckfestival.com/line-up/maisi/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |language=en-GB}}</ref> In November 2025, she and Brand appeared on ''Romesh Ranganathan's Parents' Evening''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Breen |first=Nadia |date=2025-10-31 |title=Watch: Romesh Ranganathan's mum performs Line of Duty scene to Dunbar |url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/tv/watch-romesh-ranganathans-mum-acts-32786907 |access-date=2025-11-01 |website=Belfast Live |language=en}}</ref>

==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.<ref name="auto" /> She has named Amy Winehouse as a "massive songwriting and artistic inspiration", specifically how candid her lyrics were, and how she was as a person. She also stated that she had taken inspiration from the Lorde lyric "''They'll hang us in the Louvre, down the back, but who cares-still the Louvre''" from "The Louvre", and that goth culture had influenced her "a bit" when she was younger, as she had wanted to mimic Lorde after hearing her album ''Pure Heroine.''<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web |title=Maisi {{pipe}} Fred Perry UK |url=https://www.fredperry.com/subculture/articles/maisi |website=www.fredperry.com}}</ref> "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.<ref name="auto3" /> Writing in January 2023, Mia Khan of ''Shift London'' described Bourke's works as electro-pop,<ref name="shift" /> although upon release, Jo Peters of ''WithGuitars'' described "Head" as pop drum and bass.<ref name=":3" />

[[File:Piri & Maisi performing in London, 2024.png|thumb|right|Piri & Maisi performing their song "Head" in London, 2024]]Bourke maintains a TikTok account, "yoitsmaisi", on which Brand<ref name="auto5"/> and Piri sometimes feature.<ref name=":3" /> She went viral in January 2023<ref name=":2" /> after a video from her "Teaching My BF to Eat" TikTok series,<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 July 2023 |title=Artist {{!}} Maisi |url=https://www.latitudefestival.com/artists/maisi/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=Latitude Festival |language=en-GB}}</ref> in which she attempted to diversify Richer's meals beyond chicken nuggets and chips, was viewed over 1,000,000 times;<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/real-life/musician-desperate-change-diet-boyfriend-8054827|title=Musician's bid to change 'chicken nugget and fries' diet of boyfriend|newspaper=Hulllive |date=20 January 2023|via=www.derbytelegraph.co.uk}}</ref> 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,<ref name=":3" /> and by April 2024, she had 160,000 followers.<ref name=":1" /> In 2022, she and Richer ran that year's Maldon mud race for Macmillan Cancer Support, following the deaths from cancer of her uncle and Sean Lock;<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://maldon.nub.news/news/local-news/jo-brands-daughter-maisie-bourke-on-her-maldon-mud-race-experience-i-absolutely-loved-it-im-going-to-apply-again-next-year-130505|title=Jo Brand's daughter Maisie Bourke on her Maldon Mud Race experience: "I absolutely loved it - I'm going to apply again next year!"|date=26 April 2022|website=Maldon Nub News}}</ref> Maldon Nub noted in May 2023 that they had raised "more than £2,200".<ref name=":0" /> The pair ran the race again in 2023; in both 2022 and 2023, the race was started by Brand,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://maldon.nub.news/news/local-news/maldon-mud-race-2023-comedian-jo-brand-to-return-as-daughter-maisie-takes-on-challenge-once-again-183297|title=Maldon Mud Race 2023: Comedian Jo Brand to return as daughter Maisie takes on challenge once again|date=9 May 2023|website=Maldon Nub News}}</ref> who had attempted to run the race with Lock in 2010.<ref name="auto1" />

== Discography == ===EPs=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" |Title ! scope="col" |Details |- ! scope="row" |''Act Your Age''<br />{{small|(Maisie Bourke)}} | * Released: 22 March 2019<ref>{{Citation |title=Act Your Age |date=2019-03-22 |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/2W78vDd3vvaRzyBDxifI0F |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en}}</ref> * Label: Self-released * Format: Digital download, streaming |- ! scope="row" |''Girl!&excl;!''<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | * Released: 9 August 2024<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |title=Maisi - Discography |url=https://open.spotify.com/artist/7aldgASM0QRSQNHTdfBV7W/discography/all |website=Spotify}}</ref> * Label: Self-released * Format: Digital download, streaming |- ! scope="row" |''Girl!&excl;! (But Make It...)''<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | * Released: 30 August 2024<ref name="auto2"/> * Label: Self-released * Format: Digital download, streaming |- ! scope="row" |''U Could Be Something''<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | * Released: 10 October 2025<ref name="auto2"/> * Label: Self-released * Format: Digital download, streaming |}

=== Singles === ==== As lead artist ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" style="width:19em;" |Title ! scope="col" style="width:1em;" |Year !Album !Ref. |- ! scope="row" |"Big Boy"<br />{{small|(Maisie Bourke)}} | rowspan="3" |2018 | rowspan="10" {{non-album singles}} |<ref>{{Citation |title=Big Boy |date=2018-02-19 |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/0cfvPAonjBXeMeQ0aKbfvL |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" |"Don't Let Him"<br />{{small|(Maisie Bourke)}} |<ref>{{Citation |title=Don't Let Him |date=2018-06-14 |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/4aKaL8pUTuUhXfcoyzFmvR |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" |"Cheap"<br />{{small|(Maisie Bourke)}} |<ref>{{Citation |title=Cheap |date=2018-12-07 |url=https://open.spotify.com/album/2aaBPEmUVx0CtXCzRrgNps |access-date=2024-08-09 |language=en}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" |"Guess I'm In Love"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | 2021 | rowspan="16" |<ref name="auto2" /> |- ! scope="row" |"Yellow Line"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | rowspan="3" |2022 |- ! scope="row" |"Quick Fixes"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |- ! scope="row" |"123"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |- ! scope="row" |"Over & Over Again"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | rowspan="3" |2023 |- ! scope="row" |"Head"<br />{{small|(Maisi, Piri)}} |- ! scope="row" |"About You Now"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |- ! scope="row" |"Selfish"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | rowspan="5" |2024 | rowspan="2" | ''Girl!!!'' |- ! scope="row" |"So Shy"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |- ! scope="row" |"So Shy (But Make It A Duet)"<br />{{small|(Maisi, Essex Blonde)}} | rowspan="2" | ''Girl!!! (But Make It...)'' |- ! scope="row" |"Not My Type (But Make It Hyperpop)"<br />{{small|(Maisi, The Truth)}} |- ! scope="row" |"Jingle Bell Rock"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | {{non-album single}} |- ! scope="row" |"IDK"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} | rowspan="3" |2025 | rowspan="3" | ''U Could Be Something'' |- ! scope="row" |"Am I In My Prime?"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |- ! scope="row" |"Shut Up<nowiki>!!</nowiki>!"<br />{{small|(Maisi)}} |}

==== As featured artist ==== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! scope="col" style="width:19em;" |Title ! scope="col" style="width:1em;" |Year !Ref. |- ! scope="row" |"Revenge"<br/>{{small|(Omar+ feat. Maisi)}} | 2023 | rowspan="3" |<ref name="auto2" /> |- ! scope="row" |"Go Away"<br/>{{small|(020whitton feat. Maisi)}} | rowspan="2" |2024 |- ! scope="row" |"I Know You"<br/>{{small|(Moreofthem feat. Maisi)}} |}

==Music videos== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |+{{sronly|List of music videos, showing year released}} ! scope="col"| Title ! scope="col"| Year !Ref. |- ! scope="row"| "Guess I'm In Love"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> | 2021 | rowspan="11" |<ref name="YouTube">{{Cite web |title=Music Videos |url=https://www.youtube.com/@maisimaisimaisi/videos |access-date=9 August 2024 |website=YouTube}}</ref> |- ! scope="row"| "Yellow Line"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> | rowspan=3 | 2022 |- ! scope="row"| "Quick Fixes"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "123"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "Over & Over Again"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> | rowspan=3 | 2023 |- ! scope="row"| "Head"<br /><small>(Maisi & Piri)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "About You Now"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "Selfish"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> | rowspan=3 | 2024 |- ! scope="row"| "So Shy"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "Not My Type"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> |- ! scope="row"| "IDK"<br /><small>(Maisi)</small> | 2025 |} ==Notes== {{notelist}}

==References== {{reflist}} Category:Musicians from the London Borough of Southwark Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:People from Camberwell Category:Alumni of the BIMM Institute