Price: $29.49
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Doors open: 7pm
Support: 8pm
Show starts: 8.50pm
Triple ARIA award winning singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson brings his HELL BREAKS LOOSE tour to Anita's Theatre.
Hell Breaks Loose is Shane’s first album of original material since the breakdown of his marriage to Kasey Chambers, with whom he recorded two ARIA Award-winning alt-country albums, Rattlin’ Bones (2008) and Wreck & Ruin (2012).
Several songs address his new circumstances directly, including the superb ballad Single Fathers and the starting-over honesty of Secondhand Man.
Others range across topics from the decline of a once-great city (Irons and Chains, about Detroit), living with depression (Weight of the World), to learning to choose which battles are worth the fight (Bury My Guns).
“Many of these songs are about self-discovery and new horizons’’ Nicholson says. “And also how that’s not always great, it can also sometimes be difficult. You can veer down a few wrong paths. It can take time to adjust. Writers will always find turmoil to write about even if there isn’t any, but the writing for this record certainly came from an authentic place, and was very cathartic.’’
Hell Breaks Loose recently won an ARIA award for Best Country Album and a CMAA Golden Guitar Award for Best Alternative Country Album.
HELL BREAKS LOOSE - REVIEWS:
Nicholson's is a uniquely compelling voice in Australian songwriting – it lives and breathes in the songsmith's singular melodies, crooked humour, and short, pithy lines gently delivered. Hell Breaks Loose is a candid, immersive portrait of the artist.
Rolling Stone Australia - Best 50 Albums of 2015
http://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/50-best-albums-of-2015/2866
Gorgeous, life-affirming…his best collection yet...one of the country’s finest songwriters.
Rhythms Magazine
I have real admiration for Shane Nicholson's musical sensibilities; I felt honored to have a hand in the making of (the track) "One Big Mess."
Rodney Crowell
Shane Nicholson doesn't fool me with his tough guy exterior and his refusal to smile in photographs, the guy is a marshmallow, a poet, a genius. This album is a game changer, his best yet, it'll get into bits of you that you didn't know you had. Also, this album makes me weep. Bastard.
Beccy Cole
My current favourite album…he paints me pictures, he sets the scenes, and he takes me to special places in my imagination.”
Russell Morris
It makes for a sharp, precise record in both music and message that stands alongside his best work.
Four stars
Rolling Stone Magazine
HELL BREAKS LOOSE - AWARDS:
Best Country Album - 2015 ARIA Awards
Best Alternative Country Album - 2016 Country Music Awards of Australia