Life and Career
Nicholson first appeared on the scene through a band formed in his last year of high school, called "Freak". This band went on to win the first round of Triple J Unearthed competition in the Sunshine Coast division. Shortly after this, the band name changed to Pretty Violet Stain which released an EP in 1997 called Blush and the long awaited LP Parachutes and Gravity in 2000. Both releases had minor hit songs on radio stations around the country, such as "Blush" and "Never Come Down".
The band split shortly after a lengthy delay in releasing the album and Nicholson decided to pursue a solo career and released the critically acclaimed It's a Movie in 2002. It was during the recording of this album with Nash Chambers that Nicholson met Kasey Chambers, who duetted with him 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 US tour. USA Today named It's a Movie one of the top pop albums of 2004. A second solo album, Faith and Science was released in 2006.
In 2008, Nicholson joined with wife Kasey Chambers for the critically acclaimed Rattlin' Bones roots/country album, which debuted at #1 on the ARIA charts, achieved platinum-plus sales and eventually won an ARIA Award for Best Country release in Australia 2008, and also picked up five Golden Guitar Awards in Australia in 2009. Nicholson found time between tours to record a third solo album, Familiar Ghosts released in November 2008, which was also nominated for an ARIA Award for Best Country Album in 2009.
In recent years, Nicholson has also moved into music production, working on albums for artists such as Angie Hart (Frente), Catherine Britt, Beccy Cole, Sarah Humphreys, Nikki Jensen, Israel Cannan, The Quarry Mountain Dead Rats, and others.
In March 2011, Nicholson released his sixth solo album entitled Bad Machines which garnered an ARIA Country Album of the Year nomination and six CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia Nominations in the awards held in Tamworth on 28 January 2012.
Shane and his wife welcomed a baby girl on 6 October 2011, named Poet Poppin Nicholson.
On 28 January 2012, Nicholson won the APRA Song of the Year Golden Guitar Award for his song, "Bad Machines". Also in 2012 Nicholson won the APRA Country Work of the Year award for "Famous Last Words". In September that year his latest collaboration with his wife, the album Wreck & Ruin was released, receiving 5 Golden Guitar nominations, ultimately winning the couple the award for "Group/Duo of the Year" in January 2013.
Nicholson was named Producer of the Year at the 2013 Country Music Awards of Australia.
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