Jersey-born / Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly previews his new EP 'Forever Young' with the final single 'Still Not Made It', out October 27th

NEW EP ‘FOREVER YOUNG’, OUT OCTOBER 29TH

"a dynamic offering that dips into darker elements of Tadhg's past." - CLASH (Forever Young)

"While we are currently loving the electro-pop sounds of summer, sometimes we need to sit back and relax, and Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly is providing... Filled with soothing and honeyed vocals the singer effortlessly rides the rich production, serving up a passionate performance. Bringing the warming single to life". - WONDERLAND (Your Heart's Not In It)

"Trauma & passion radiate in Tadhg Daly's intimate outpouring 'Your Heart's Not In It'"

- ATWOOD MAGAZINE

"With a host of singles under his belt, including the newly released introspective and touching “Forever Young,” Daly is ready to unveil his most honest piece of work to date." - EUPHORIA MAG

"His latest release, Forever Young is the title to his forthcoming new EP, and is a beautifully honest track that looks back at his troubled childhood, his issues with anxiety and what he would say to himself now. Perfectly suited to playlists featuring the likes of James Bay, Gavin James and James Morrison, Tadhg Daly delivers a touching ode, and marks him as an artist to watch out for in the future." - RECORD OF THE DAY

"Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly has channelled the adversities he faced in his childhood into his music." - THE IRISH POST

LISTEN TO ‘STILL NOT MADE IT’ HERE

Following up a string of releases over the last few months including ‘Your Heart’s Not In It’, ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Come On Over’, which have since found support on Spotify’s Fresh Finds, Easy, Next Gen Singer-Songwriters, and Fresh Finds: Pop playlists, as well as Amazon’s Brand New Music, Fresh Pop, Best Of The Month, Finely Tuned and Novedades Indie playlists as well as their One To Watch, fast-rising Jersey born / Irish singer and songwriter Tadhg Daly now completes the support for his new EP with the pulsing new single ‘Still Not Made It’.

Much like what we have heard from him in the run up to this new collection, ‘Still Not Made It’ showcases more of his rich and euphoric approach to the alt-pop sound. Jam-packed with vibrant textures, soaring aesthetics, and his own heartfelt vocal performance leading the charge, this new effort marks one of his most captivating offerings yet.

Speaking about the song, Tadhg said, "I wrote this song as a conversation between me and my mother. The first verse is voicing my frustrations and fears to her and the second verse is pretty much a direct quote from her, reassuring me that everything that is meant to happen, will happen. It's about the fear of failure and trying to make it in such a cut throat industry. I decided to use my age specifically in the lyrics as a bit of a stand against the idea that you’re too old to make it past your early twenties.. something that I regularly panic about. The idea of "making it" is something I worry about constantly but is also something that I think is a totally false narrative.. So much pressure is put on people (especially creatives) to keep striving for success and the next big thing and whilst that drive can be inspiring it can also be crippling! Constantly hearing people from back home saying "I really hope you make it" is just such a weird feeling to me like I don't even really know what that means when I'm supposed to have made it. That sums up the song really. I think there is a lot of frustration, fear and then hope in the track."

Throughout the last year, Tadhg Daly has been in pursuit of creating a more adventurous and textured approach to the alt-pop sound, and this is exactly what we can expect to hear on his new collection ‘Forever Young’. The new five-track EP looks to tell his own unique tale of overcoming adversity and battling personal demons, all of which have led him towards a career in music as he looks to present himself in a raw and more intimate guise.

Adding his thoughts on the new EP, he said, "As an EP, “Forever Young” is a re-telling of the journey I’ve been on from being a real shy kid growing up on a small Island, to losing my way completely as a teenager and then trying desperately to turn my life around and create something for myself as an artist in London. Each song is incredibly close to my heart and I'm so proud of the end result. Writing and recording these songs with some of my best friends was the most cathartic process in some ways and in others an incredibly painful walk through feelings and memories I had pent-up for years, though ultimately I feel like so much weight has been lifted from me now that they are finished. I wrote and recorded it with my 2 producers and close mates Dustin Dooley and Andy Hall-Hall during lockdown in 2020 and I think how dearly we all care about the songs is what has made them so special for me and allowed them to be heard in the way that I had hoped. Although this is my debut EP and in many ways the first chapter of my music career, it really feels like closing the door on a lot of negativity, trauma and insecurities I’ve carried with me for years and I really hope it can give some other people a sense of peace when they listen to the record."

Since the announcement of Tadhg's forthcoming EP he has generated enormous media support, including a feature with RTE, CLASH’s fantastic video premiere for ‘Forever Young’, news coverage on The Irish Post,  Song of the Day on Record of the Day, a fantastic interview with Euphoria Magazine, Hot Press support and so much more. Not to mention recent praise from Wonderland, The Independent, Official Charts, Atwood Mag and many more.

‘Forever Young’ Tracklist:

Forever Young

Still Not Made It

Your Heart's Not In It

Come On Over

My Town

Tadhg Daly will also be performing his new EP at an exclusive launch party at London’s Strongroom Bar and Kitchen on the 28th October.

Ever since he was a child, it was clear that music was firmly in Tadhg Daly’s makeup. Coming from an enormous family based in Jersey & Ireland, many of his relatives were keen musicians and actors, which made it easy for him to grow creatively in his early years. Picking up the trumpet at the age of nine, he was hooked on creating and performing music, something that he kept up until a sports injury changed his life forever.

When he was thirteen, he broke his leg during a football match, which left him in a cast for eight months. With not much else to do except delve further into his musical passions, he began to grow a taste for rock and punk music. By the time he returned to school, he had fully embraced the alternative scene and began to perform in a number of local bands doing the rounds. Something his old friends didn’t understand and so he began to hang out with people more interested in his newfound obsession. But this new persona he had taken on made him a target at school and eventually led to him dropping out.

Things never got much easier after that. Feeling despondent and an outsider in his own community, he found himself a part of the wrong crowd and quickly developed a drug dependency by the age of sixteen. With no purpose or path to follow, he fell deeper and deeper into a depression, which fed his habit and left him heading in and out of hospital continuously.

Now after a number of years of recovery and personal growth, and building momentum with his hometown audience, he headed to London to find his place and learn the musician's craft. This led to the release of his first EP, and first taste of attention from major media such as  BBC Radio 1 and Radio Scotland, and gave him the opportunity to play a number of major festivals  alongside support shows with James Morrison and James Blunt and touring through Europe.

Following the promotion and experience of his first commercial output, and with the confidence of finding his voice and focusing his talents, Tadhg became studious to the songwriting cause and throughout 2020 when the world was in lockdown he holed himself up in an East London studio. Between heavy periods of government control his room became a revolving door of the capital's brightest songwriter and producer talent with the resulting work distilled in a new EP and prolific archive of songs.

As we move into 2021, with the machinery in place for his career to develop he is quickly becoming one of the most talked about new artists of the moment.

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