Jersey-born / Irish singer-songwriter Tadhg Daly announces his debut EP 'Forever Young' and shares the stunning title-track, out August 6th
After returning earlier this year to deliver his first offering of 2021, ‘Your Heart’s Not In It’, fast-rising Jersey born / Irish singer and songwriter Tadhg Daly has now announced the details behind his highly-anticipated new EP ‘Forever Young’, sharing the collection’s stirring title-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 ‘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.
Speaking about 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"
The EP’s opener and title-track acts as a prologue to his journey of self-reflection. Looking back on his troubled childhood, the song acts as a retrospective confrontation to the life he used to lead; looking back to who he was, his troubles and anxiety, and what he would say to himself now.
Adding about the new single, he explained, "Forever Young is a story of the pain and confusion I felt growing up and trying to find my place in the world. Seen through the eyes of a teenager being bullied in school on the brink of breakdown alone in their bedroom. The main line in the chorus is what I would tell my younger self… “It's alright to feel this way”."
‘Forever Young’ Tracklist:
Forever Young
Still Not Made It
Your Heart's Not In It
Come On Over
My Town
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.
See Tadhg Daly live:
Blue Note, Jersey - Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 September 2021
EP launch party at Strongroom Bar and Kitchen - Thursday 28 October 2021
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