There’s a particular power to the music of Sydney-based singer-songwriter Luke O’Shea that has been acknowledged by multiple Golden Guitar Awards as well as by the longevity of his career over five albums and countless shows. Australian audiences love O’Shea’s way of telling stories and imparting information with humour and pathos and respect for his subjects, and no doubt they will love his new album, Next Big Thing, when it is released in January 2023. ‘South East Queensland’ is O’Shea’s first single from that album and we spoke about that recently, as well as other songs and other things. You can watch that chat on YouTube or listen in Soundcloud.
Luke O’Shea on new single ‘South East Queensland’ and the power of storytelling
There’s a particular power to the music of Sydney-based singer-songwriter Luke O’Shea that has been acknowledged by multiple Golden Guitar Awards as well as by the longevity of his career over five albums and countless shows. Australian audiences love O’Shea’s way of telling stories and imparting information with humour and pathos and respect for his…
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[…] a song about my grandmother and how she grew up,’ says May of the song, which he wrote with Luke O’Shea and James Gillard. ‘My great-grandfather is a white man from overseas and my great […]
[…] has won a lot of Golden Guitars – sixteen – and two of those were won this year for the song ‘South East Queensland’ and its video, which O’Shea co-directed with Jay Seeney. The last time O’Shea won a […]
[…] O’Shea has won 16 Golden Guitars for his albums and his videos, including the single ‘South East Queensland’ from his album Different […]