Photo Credit: Isak Hoffmeyer. Image provided by Mermaid Records
A Circle of Friends prepare the next generation for trials and tribulations on ‘Youth Was Never Wasted On The Young’. After a busy year of live performances in 2023 the Danish sextet kicks off the new year with this track. It is their second single, co-written by Asger Søgaard and Alex Nyborg Madsen. The song starts simply with a banjo and a martial snare drum and grows to a rousing chorus spurring young people to “Save the world with a broken heart”. Søgaard and Alex Madsen are joined by multi-instrumentalists Thea Damgaard, Julie Krogsbøll, Emil Meinild and Morten Overgaard to craft the group’s uplifting sound.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
