Darcy Clay

aka Daniel Bolton


The looks on some of the faces in the room said it all. Trevor Reekie, owner of Antenna Recordings, had just pushed play on a home recording he believed to be a contender for the Top 20, and an unhealthy percentage of his audience were struggling to see how it could be framed to work for them.

The sound that poured from the speakers was cut from a far more ragged cloth than the EMI staff were used to, but their reservations were outweighed by the assurances that Darcy Clay’s makeshift assault on the New Zealand Singles Chart was bound to succeed.

Darcy Clay's handwritten lyrics to Jesus I Was Evil
Photo credit: David Gunson Collection
Darcy Clay at bFM Private Function, 29 Nov 1997, Old City Markets.
Photo credit: Photo by Gemma Gracewood
NZ Musician, August 1997
Darcy Clay at bFM Private Function, 29 Nov 1997, Old City Markets.
Photo credit: Photo by Gemma Gracewood
Darcy Clay at bFM Private Function, 29 Nov 1997, Old City Markets
Photo credit: Photo by Gemma Gracewood
The Jesus I Was Evil 12-inch EP as reissued in November 2015
Darcy Clay.
Photo credit: Chris Traill
Darcy Clay in a publicity shot for APRA
Darcy Clay at bFM Private Function, 29 Nov 1997, Old City Markets.
Photo credit: Photo by Murray Cammick
Darcy Clay on the first Havoc show on MTV, September 1997.
Photo credit: Photo by Allan Roberts
Daniel Bolton, later known as Darcy Clay, aged around 16. Pictured at his high school, Northcote College, Auckland.
Photo credit: Dana Marsich
Jesus I Was Evil
Daniel Bolton aka Darcy Clay
Photo credit: Murray Cammick Collection
Darcy Clay at Marbecks, Queen St, Auckland.
Photo credit: Chris Traill
Interview with Darcy Clay as manager Wad Channing
Darcy Clay at the bFM Summer Series, Albert Park 1995
Photo credit: Photo by EJ Mathers
Trivia:

The David Gunson directed video for Jesus I Was Evil cost $250 and was filmed on a Handycam

Dave Dobbyn and Ian Morris recorded an unreleased tribute called 'Darcy Clay' in 1998

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