Since making his debut with Brisbane band Pretty Violet Stain in 2000, Shane Nicholson’s career has gone from strength to strength, with numerous ARIAs and Golden Guitars collected along the way for albums such as Familiar Ghosts (2008), Bad Machines (2011) and Hell Breaks Loose, as well as for Rattlin’ Bones (2008) and Wreck &

Ruin (2012) the two much-lauded collaborations with Kasey Chambers.