After returning in recent months to deliver his first offering of 2021, ‘Your Heart’s Not In It’, fast-rising Jersey born / Irish singer and songwriter Tadhg Daly is back once again to unveil the stunning live performance video for his latest single.
Recorded in an empty backroom at Peckham Rye train station, the new live visuals for ‘Your Heart’s Not In It’ look to showcase the bold and dynamic live display Tadhg injects into all of his material. Filmed in one continuous shot, the performance not only shows off his passionate live persona, but highlights the rich and uplifting presence he can add to his songs.
Speaking about the new video, he said, “The video was shot in a huge church-like room on platform 2 In Peckham Rye station as a series alongside some other new tracks I’ve written over the past year. It was shot and directed by Nifty50 Films which is a company run by 2 close mates of mine, Kaine Horey and Mike O’Conor. Whilst the main concept of the videos were surrounding the location and how beautiful it is, the guys wanted to shoot all 5 videos at different times of the day so we had a sort of “day to night” change in aesthetic across the board and if you watch them one after the other you can watch the day through its different stages of light. All in all though it was about being inspired in such a beautiful location and trying to perform the songs to match it!”
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 didnt 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.