3 x time ARIA Award and 11 x Golden Guitar winning Shane Nicholson has announced extra live shows and releases his new radio single ‘Helena’, the follow up to his Top 15 Country Radio single ‘And You Will Have Your Way.’ In line with the release, Shane will also release a live video of ‘Helena.’
Shane describes ‘Helena’ as a dream song. ”I’ve never had a dream song before. I was a little bit jealous of people who had. I woke up one morning and had the title and sort of a little melody in my head. ‘It only hurts for a while’ is the tagline. In the dream it was ‘Helena it only hurts ‘till you die’ – that was a little bit sadder [he laughs], maybe not as hopeful. That was the original version I wrote. I backtracked a bit and thought no I’m gonna make this a little more hopeful and open-ended.
“It was fun to record. I was having a great time, playing and playing, then I started adding backing vocals and I got carried away with it one night. You know, a couple of whiskeys and a microphone. It ballooned into something bigger and shinier than I thought it would.”
Living In Colour was released in August, hit Top 5 on the ARIA Country Chart and is nominated for ARIA Best Country Album. It was written and recorded in Shane’s Central Coast studio pretty much on his own due to Covid restrictions. “I just found it fun to be doing it myself. It was sort of a return to the old days, my teenage years, when I had my first Pro-Tools set up on old computer and I was making demos and putting songs together, learning about the mechanics of production in a bedroom in Brisbane in my parents’ house,” he says excitedly. “I haven’t really done that since then, being able to sit there by myself and pick up instrument after instrument. It was mostly me and a bottle of whiskey into the night, that was it.”
Shane’s forthcoming Living In Colour album tour dates have been rescheduled with extra shows now added!
‘LIVING IN COLOUR’ TOUR
Friday December 3 | Murray Delta Juke Joint Goolwa, SA
Saturday December 4 | The Barn at Wombat Flat, SA
Sunday December 5 | Trinity Sessions, Adelaide, SA
Wednesday Jan 19 | Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre
Wednesday Jan 19 | The Pub, Tamworth, NSW (evening)
Thursday February 3 | Live at Bundy Hall, Bundalaguah, VIC
Friday February 4 | Macedon Railway Hotel, Mt Macedon, VIC
Saturday February 5 | Memo Music Hall, St Kilda, VIC
Sunday February 6 | Caravan Club, Archies Creek, VIC
Friday February 11 | Factory Floor, Marrickville, NSW
Saturday February 12 | Bowral Bowling Club, NSW
Saturday March 19 | Tallagandra Hill Winery, Gundaroo NSW
Friday March 25 | Hardys Bay Club, NSW
Saturday March 26 | Yackandandah Folk Festival, VIC
Sunday March 27 | Yackandandah Folk Festival, VIC
Thursday April 7 | Lizotte’s Newcastle, NSW
Friday April 8 | The Music Lounge, Wollongong, NSW
Thursday May 4 | Oodies Cafe, Bundaberg, QLD
Friday May 5 | Doo Bop Jazz Club, Brisbane, QLD
Saturday May | 6 The Citadel, Murwillumbah, NSW
Saturday May | 14 Club Mudgee, NSW