Darcy Clay was born Daniel Bolton, and lived in Birkenhead through his youth but also spent nine months as a 14-year-old in Atlanta, Georgia and later 18 months with the rest of the Boltons in Australia.
Whilst on these teenage escapades Darcy was able to connect with his sentimental boyhood musical favourites Motley Crue, who he saw in concert. Nothing for Darcy could touch Motley Crue's Shout At The Devil, the first album he ever bought. He was "obsessed with metal", going to Metallica and Poison concerts and to this day still thinks "Metal's the best sort of party music" and that "AC/DC are a great party band".
Darcy Clay first debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Albums on 30 November 2015 with the album Jesus I Was Evil Ep. There is one entry by Darcy Clay in the charts.