Damages by Jonnythefirth (feat. Rosie Doonan)
Damages was originally recorded in 2012 on my first album Broken Bones. It’s a song about mental health issues around bi polar and the ups and downs that can bring and trying to navigate that in a strange world It’s also about not knowing my heritage from my biological father’s side. It’s saying look at all the love that you missed out on through the years, even though I was lucky with the love I had from my mums side.
I re-recorded a version of it for the 10th anniversary of broken bones album in 2022 but it never came to fruition. As fate should have it now it’s going to be release as a single for a suicide charity called Papyrus.
Papyrus is the UK charity dedicated to the prevention of suicide and the promotion of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing in young people.
They exist to reduce the number of young people who take their own lives, by shattering the stigma surrounding suicide and equipping young people and their communities with the skills to recognise and respond to emotional distress. They believe that no young person should have to struggle alone with thoughts of suicide.
I’ve lost family member and friends to suicide and it’s something, I too feel, we need to highlight especially in these hard times. We need to support family and friends, we are all fighting an invisible battle and we never truly know whet people are going through.
Damages will be available digitally from 10th January and will be the first single taken from Broken Bones vol 2.
There will be a run of gigs with all proceeds will go to Papyrus. More details on those to come later this month.
Independent record label based in Wakefield, founded in 2008. Current home of Buen Chico, Knuckle, St Cyrus, St Gregory Orange