Shane Nicholson (singer)
Shane Nicholson is an Australian singer-songwriter from Brisbane in Queensland. He is best known for his two studio albums with Kasey Chambers, to whom he was married from 2005-2013.[1] As a solo artist he's won APRA Awards, Golden Guitars and an ARIA Award. He's also been named Producer of the Year at the Country Music Awards of Australia.[2]
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Background information | |
Origin | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Occupation(s) | Musician |
Years active | 1998-present |
Labels | Virt Records, Liberation Records, EMI Records, Warner Bros. Records, WEA |
Associated acts | Pretty Violet Stain, Kasey Chambers, Alex Lloyd |
Website | Official website |
Career
1990s-2001: Freak and Pretty Violent Stain
During his final year of high school, Nicholson was part of a band called Freak, which won an early round of Triple J Unearthed competition in the Sunshine Coast division.[3] Shortly after this, the band name changed to Pretty Violet Stain and released an extended play in 1997 called Blush.[4] This was followed by singles "If the Money's Right", "Never Come Down" and "Talk" and album Parachutes and Gravity, which was released in 2000. The band split shortly after.
2002-2007: It's a Movie & Faith and Science
Nicholson signed with EastWest and released his debut studio album It's a Movie in 2002. It was during the recording of this album with Nash Chambers that Nicholson met Kasey Chambers. The two dueted on the lead single, "Designed to Fade".
He toured in Australia and made his United States debut at the South by Southwest Festival, which prompted his signing with Virt Records and a more extensive American tour.[5] USA Today named It's a Movie one of the top pop albums of 2004.[6]
A second solo album, Faith and Science, was released in 2006 and included the single "I Know What You Need", which became his first charting single, peaking at number 54.
2008-2013: Albums with Kasey Chambers, Familiar Ghosts & Bad Machines
Nicholson joined with wife Kasey Chambers for the album Rattlin' Bones, which was released in April 2008 and debuted at number 1 on the ARIA charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2008, it won ARIA Award for Best Country Album. The album won five Golden Guitar Awards at the Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) in January 2009.
Between tours he recorded a third solo album, Familiar Ghosts, which was released in November 2008 and was nominated for an Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2009. This coincided with Nicholson moving into music production.
In March 2011, Nicholson released his sixth solo album, Bad Machines, which peaked at number 29. Nicholson and his wife welcomed a baby girl on 6 October 2011, named Poet Poppin Nicholson.
At the January 2012 CMAA, Nicholson won the Song of the Year for his song, "Bad Machines". Also in 2012, Nicholson won the APRA Country Work of the Year award for "Famous Last Words".
In September 2012, Nicholson and Chambers released a second collaborative album, Wreck & Ruin was peaked at number 6 on the ARIA Charts. The album was nominated for 5 awards at the 2013 CMAA awards, ultimately winning the couple the award for "Group/Duo of the Year". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013, the album won Best Country Album. Nicholson was named Producer of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Awards of Australia.
On 23 April 2013, it was announced that Nicholson and Kasey Chambers had separated, with the collision of work and family life said to have forced their split.[7]
2014-present: Hell Breaks Loose & Love and Blood
In 2014, Nicholson signed a new recording deal with Lost Highway Australia/Universal Music, and released his first live album, Pitch, Roll & Yaw - Live and Solo.
June 2015 saw the release of "Secondhand Man", the first single from Nicholson's album Hell Breaks Loose. The album was written amongst the break up of this married to Chambers.[8] Released in August 2015, it debuted at #16 on the ARIA chart.
Hell Breaks Loose won the ARIA award for Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 and received 7 CMAA nominations at the 2016 CMAA awards. The album won Alternative Country Album of the Year Award.[9]
Love and Blood was released in July 2017 and debuted at #28 on the ARIA chart. It was nominated for Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2017. At the CMAA in January 2018, Nicholson won Male Artist of the Year.[10]
Nicholson appeared as an on-camera music producer in ABC television production of The Recording Studio, a 10-part series that ran in April 2019.[11] The music from the series won the 2019 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.[12]
In May 2019, Nicholson was signed a publishing deal with Cooking Vinyl Australia.[13]
On 3 April 2020, Nicholson confirmed the digital reissued of his back-catalogue.[14]
Personal Life
On 17 December 2005 Chambers married fellow country music singer-songwriter, Kasey Chambers.[15] Chambers had sung on "Designed to Fade", on Nicholson's his debut solo album in 2002, which was produced by Kasey's brother, Nash.[16] Subsequently, they co-released two albums, Rattlin' Bones (2008) and Wreck & Ruin (2012). Chambers and Nicholson have two children: son Arlo Ray (2007) and daughter Poet Poppin (2011). In April 2013 the couple announced their separation.[1]
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
Certifications |
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AUS [17] | |||
It's a Movie |
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Faith & Science |
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Rattlin' Bones (with Kasey Chambers) |
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1 |
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Familiar Ghosts |
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- | |
Bad Machines[19] |
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29 | |
Wreck & Ruin (with Kasey Chambers) |
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6 | |
Hell Breaks Loose |
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16 | |
Love and Blood |
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28 |
Live albums
Title | Album details |
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Pitch, Roll & Yaw - Live and Solo |
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Compilation albums
Title | Album details |
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Sleeping Dogs – The Rarities |
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EPs
Title | Album details |
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It's a Home Movie |
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Exit Wounds |
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Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions |
Album |
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AUS [17] | |||
"Designed to Fade" | 2002 | — | It's a Movie |
"I Wish I Was You (Sometimes)" | 2003 | — | |
"I Know What You Need" | 2006 | 54 | Faith & Science |
"Safe and Sound" | 2007 | — | |
"Rattlin' Bones" (with Kasey Chambers) | 2008 | 55 | Rattlin' Bones |
"Monkey on a Wire" (with Kasey Chambers) | — | ||
"Summer Dress" | — | Familiar Ghosts | |
"Wildflower" (with Kasey Chambers) [21] | 2009 | — | Rattlin' Bones |
"Where the Water Goes"[22] | — | Familiar Ghosts | |
"Bad Machines"[23] | 2010 | — | Bad Machines |
"Famous Last Words"[24] | 2011 | — | |
"Whistling Cannonballs" (with Paul Kelly)[25] | — | ||
"Jimmie Rodgers Was a Vampire" | — | ||
"Adam & Eve" (with Kasey Chambers) [26] | 2012 | — | Wreck & Ruin |
"The Quiet Life" (with Kasey Chambers) | — | ||
"Wreck & Ruin" (with Kasey Chambers) | 2013 | — | |
"Secondhand Man"[27] | 2015 | — | Hell Breaks Loose |
"When the Money's All Gone"[28] | — | ||
"Weight of the World"[29] | 2016 | — | |
"Safe"[30] | 2017 | — | Love and Blood |
"I Don't Dance"[31] | — | ||
"Even If You Were the One"[32] | — | ||
"As Above, So Below" (with Aleyce Simmonds) [33] | 2018 | — | More Than Meets the Eye |
"The High Price of Surviving"[34] | 2020 | — | TBA |
"Long Way from Lonely" (with Hunger Kaine)[35] | — | ||
"Don't Take John Prine"[36] | — |
Awards and nominations
Americana Music Awards
The Americana Music Honors & Awards honours distinguished members of the music community. Nicholson has been nominated twice.[37][38]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2009 | Nicholson and Kasey Chambers | Best Duo/ Group of the Year | Nominated |
2010 | "Rattlin' Bones" (with Kasey Chambers) | Song of the Year | Nominated |
APRA Music Awards
The APRA Music Awards is annual awards ceremony that celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance. Nicholson has won two awards from five nominations.
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2009 | "Rattlin Bones" (with Kasey Chambers) | Song of the Year | Nominated |
Country Work of the Year | Won | ||
2012 | "Bad Machines" | Country Work of the Year | Nominated |
"Famous Last Words" | Won | ||
2016 | "Secondhand Man" | Country Work of the Year | Nominated |
ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. Nicholson has won three awards from eleven nominations.[39]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2008 | Rattlin' Bones (with Kasey Chambers) | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Won |
ARIA Award for Album of the Year | Nominated | ||
Aaron Hayward & David Homer for Rattlin' Bones | ARIA Award for Best Cover Art | Nominated | |
2009 | Rattlin' Bones (with Kasey Chambers) | ARIA Award for Best Music DVD | Nominated |
Familiar Ghosts | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Nominated | |
2011 | Bad Machines | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Nominated |
2013 | Wreck & Ruin (with Kasey Chambers) | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Won |
Glen Hannah for Wreck & Ruin | ARIA Award for Best Cover Art | Nominated | |
2015 | Hell Breaks Loose | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Won |
"Secondhand Man" | ARIA Award for Best Video | Nominated | |
2017 | Love and Blood | ARIA Award for Best Country Album | Nominated |
Country Music Awards of Australia
The Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) (also known as the Golden Guitar Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, in Tamworth, New South Wales, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. Nicholson has won ten awards from thirty-two nominations.[40][41][42][43][9][10]
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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2009 | Rattlin' Bones (with Kasey Chambers) | Album of the Year | Won |
Highest Selling Album | Won | ||
"Rattlin' Bones" (with Kasey Chambers) | Song of the Year | Won | |
Single of the Year | Won | ||
Video of the Year | Won | ||
himself with Kasey Chambers | Group/Duo of the Year | Nominated | |
2012 | Bad Machines | Album of the Year | Nominated |
"Bad Machines" | Song of the Year | Won | |
Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
Male Artist of the Year | Nominated | ||
"Whistling Cannonballs" (with Paul Kelly) | Vocal Collaboration of the Year | Nominated | |
"Famous Last Words" | Video of the Year | Nominated | |
Songs & Pictures by Beccy Cole | Producer of the Year | Nominated | |
2013 | Wreck & Ruin (with Kasey Chambers) | Album of the Year | Nominated |
"Adam & Eve" (with Kasey Chambers) | Group or Duo of the Year | Won | |
Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
Video of the Year | Nominated | ||
"Reach For You" (with Harmony James) | Vocal collaboration of the Year | Nominated | |
himself | Producer of the Year | Won | |
2016 | Hell Breaks Loose | Alternative Country Album of the Year | Won |
Male Artist of the Year | Nominated | ||
Top Selling Album of the Year | Nominated | ||
"Secondhand Man" | Song of the Year | Nominated | |
Single of the Year | Nominated | ||
Video Clip of the Year | Nominated | ||
"Hermannsburg" | Heritage Song of the Year | Nominated | |
Producer of the Year | Sweet Rebecca by Beccy Cole | Nominated | |
2018 | Love and Blood | Alternative Country Album of the Year | Nominated |
Male Artist of the Year | Won | ||
"Safe" | Single of the Year | Nominated | |
Song of the Year | Nominated |
Selected Production work
Year | Artist | Album | Notes |
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2009 | Lou Bradley | La La La Not Listening | |
2010 | Catherine Britt | Catherine Britt | ARIA Award for Best Country Album, nominated (2010) |
2011 | Beccy Cole | Songs & Pictures | ARIA Award for Best Country Album, nominated (2012) |
2012 | Quarry Mountain Dead Rats | Bloodhound Killed My Squeezebox | |
2013 | Alex Lloyd | Urban Wilderness | |
2014 | Lyn Bowtell | Heart of Sorrow | |
2014 | Jodi Martin | Saltwater | |
2015 | Beccy Cole | Sweet Rebecca | |
2015 | Suze DeMarchi | Home | |
2016 | Katie Brianna | The Victim or The Heroine | |
2016 | Jason Walker | All-Night Ghost Town | |
2016 | Amber Lawrence | Happy Ever After | |
2016 | Tori Forsyth | Dawn of the Dark | CMAA Alternative Country Album of the Year, nominated (2017) |
2018 | Ben Leece | No Wonder The World Is Exhausted |
References
- "Shane Nicholson and Kasey Chambers separate after eight years of marriage". The Daily Telegraph. 25 April 2020.
- "Shane Nicholson live at Port Fairy". ABC. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- "Little Ray of Sunshine". Sydney Morning Herald. 31 March 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- "pretty violet stain Blush". OZsounds. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- Bledsoe, Wayne (23 July 2004). ""Just one person": Songwriter seeks stray successes in shine of solitary spotlight". Knoxville News Sentinel. p. 5.
- Gundersen, Edna; Steve Jones; Elysa Gardner; Brian Mansfield; Ken Barnes (28 December 2004). "Critics gang up on the world of music". USA Today. p. D6.
- "Shane Nicholson and Kasey Chambers separate after eight years of marriage". news.com.au. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- "Love and Blood on the dance floor". The West. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- "CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia 2016 finalists announced at Sydney Opera House". Northern Daily Leader. November 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "I'm over the moon to be nominated for Alt Country Album of the Year". The Music Network. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "We can finally tell the world what we did late last year...we made a tv show!". Facebook. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- "ARIA Awards: 2019 Fine Arts & Artisan Winners Announced". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 10 October 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- "Shane Nicholson signs publishing with Cooking Vinyl". TMN. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- @shanenicholson (3 April 2020). "We've quietly reissued the entire back-catalogue today on all DSP's" (Tweet). Retrieved 28 April 2020 – via Twitter.
- "Hopper almost quit over split". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press (AAP). 2 February 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- "In Like Finn". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. 6 December 2002. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
- Top 50 peaks: "australian-charts.com > Shane Nicholson in Australian Charts". Hung Medien. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 71.
- "ARIA Charts Accreditations 2008 Albums". ARIA. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- Cashmere, Paul (2012). "Shane Nicholson Preps Bad Machines". Undercover. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- "Shane Nicholson – Sleeping Dogs – The Rarities". other discographies. September 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Wildflower - single". AIRIT. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Where the Water Goes". AIRIT. 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Bad Machines". AIRIT. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Famous Last Words". AIRIT. 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Whistling Cannonballs". AIRIT. 2011. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Adam & Eve - single". Apple Music. 23 July 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Secondhand Man - single". Apple Music. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "When the Money's All Gone - single". Apple Music. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Weight of the World - single". Apple Music. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Safe - single". Apple Music. 3 June 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "I Don't Dance". AIRIT. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Even If You Were the One". AIRIT. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "As Above, So Below - single". Apple Music. February 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "The High Price of Surviving - single". Apple Music. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Long Way from Lonely - single". Apple Music. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Don't Take John Prine - single". Apple Music. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Honors & Awards: Year: 2010". AmericanaMusic.org. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- "Roll of Renown". TCMF. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- "ARIA Awards Search Results – Shane Nicholson". ARIA. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Past Award Winners". Country. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Golden Guitar Nominations for 2009". ABC. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Country Music Awards of Australia 2012". Country Route News. 4 February 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- "Country Music Awards of Australia 2013". Country Route News. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
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