July 15, 2025
ABOUT CHESS SMITH
Chess Smith is a British pop/rock singer-songwriter with a love for writing passionate, personal & positive songs about mental health and hitting back at toxic behaviour. With her soaring, emotive power vocals, engaging stage presence, and uncanny ability to write relatable songs with unforgettable hooks, Chess is ready to shake up the music scene in 2025. Her music is all about radical self-love, empowerment, and overcoming adversity – in a world full of competition, comparison, narcissism, and self-doubt, Chess' uplifting, anthemic songs are a welcome reminder that when we know our worth and love ourselves, we are unstoppable.
Saving Lilibet
"Saving Lilibet isn't a sob story... It's a fucking battle cry" ~ Fame Magazine
Sometimes you have to break your silence to protect your peace...
Chess Smith has been a commanding presence on the Kent music scene for over a decade, both as a solo artist and a frontwoman, most recently as critically acclaimed power vocalist for Salvation Jayne... until 2020, when an abuser tried to take her power, dull her shine, and break her spirit. But they didn't succeed.
Despite enduring a devastating nervous breakdown at the time, Chess has come back fighting in spectacular style with Saving Lilibet, her most personal, and relatable, work to date. She has made it her mission to provide a voice for those who have experienced abuse and toxicity, and to show the world that you can not only heal after these experiences - you can thrive.
The EP is a synth packed anthemic alt-pop journey through heartache, self-discovery, rejecting toxicity, and turning pain into power to become your most beautiful, radical, and unapologetic self - whole, healed... and saved.
"Flowers don't bloom in the dark - so blaze fiercely, believe in your strength, and become your own sunlight"
Produced by Kent wunderkind Fuji Hideout, and featuring 6 full-length tracks plus an intro, including Bounce Back, Drama King, Disassociate, and 3 NEW songs, Saving Lilibet is poised to be the 'sonically infectious' soundtrack to your summer!
EP Release Show
The much anticipated launch show for Chess Smith's 'Saving Lilibet' EP, will be held at The Penny Theatre, Canterbury, at 7:30pm on 8th August 2025 - with support from Fuji Hideout and We Were Young.
