After releasing a flurry of exciting singles over the course of 2022, including ‘Winter in LA‘, ‘Fall Apart‘ and ‘All I Know‘, which have found support on Spotify’s New Music Friday, as well as their ‘Wake Up Happy’, ‘Morning Run’, and ‘yung & free’ playlists, Jersey born / Irish singer and songwriter Tadhg Daly has now announced plans for his next EP ‘Getting It All Wrong’, showcased by the shimmering new single ‘Novocaine’.
Following on from his highly-praised 2021 collection ‘Forever Young’, this follow-up EP sees him reemerging in the midst of his biggest year to date. Named as one of Amazon Music’s Artist To Watch 2022 and BBC Introducing Channel Islands’ Artist To Watch 2022 at the start of the year, ‘Getting It All Wrong’ aims to be the release that further catapults him to the household name he is set to become.
His latest offering ‘Novocaine’ perfectly illustrates the rich and vibrant direction he has been cultivating these last few months. With its bold and progressive pop production, layered effortlessly against his own mesmerising vocal performance, he has grown into a fully matured artist brimming with fresh energy and soaring potential.
Speaking about the song, Tadhg said, “This song is all just about feeling like you’re not good enough in life or for the people around you. The inspiration for this song was to have a track in which I’m kind of talking to the people that bullied me when I was younger but I wanted it to be able to be perceived through the lense of a relationship also. Lyrically it’s a Journey through the verses which are how I feel, the pre-chorus which is the escapism through drugs and then into the chorus which is sort of giving up and giving in to whatever people are doing to you.”
‘Getting It All Wrong’ EP Tracklist:
Getting It All Wrong
Missing You
Novocaine
All I Know
Fall Apart
Winter In LA
Tadhg is also set to play a number of live shows over the coming months, including supporting Etaoin on her Manchester and London shows in October and a headline shows in Jersey and London.
See Tadhg Daly live:
October 14, 2022, Jersey, The Blue Note Bar
October 19, 2022, Manchester, 33 Oldham Street, ‘Etaoin support’
October 20, 2022, London, Camden Assembly, ‘Etaoin Support’
October 26, 2022, London, Strongrooms, ‘Just Friends 4’
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.
ow 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 holed himself up in an East London studio over the past two years. 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 through 2022, 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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