Melbourne’s WILSN – real name Shannon Busch – is set to visit Castlemaine tonight, April 14, as part of a national tour for her debut album, Those Days Are Over, which launched late last month.
An exciting fusion of modern soul, pop, jazz and Motown, together with production that is simultaneously nostalgic and contemporary, WILSN’s lived experience is poured into each song and delivered effortlessly through Busch’s jaw-dropping vocal performances.
To celebrate the release of Those Days Are Over – an album that finds a new power on stage – WILSN will hit the stage at Castlemaine’s Bridge Hotel tonight at 9pm as part of her headline 10-date Australian tour.
Fans can get a taste of what’s to come with the release of the live video for Every Day and Every Night, a soaring Motown-inspired track and album highlight. WILSN’s live vocal prowess must be seen to be believed!
Those Days Are Over has all the hallmarks of an instant classic. The record features singles Those Days Are Over – released last month and the #1 most playlisted song by an Australian artist that week and Hurts So Bad (Nov 2022), a duet with The Teskey Brothers’ front man Josh Teskey, which was added to a jaw-dropping 20+ Spotify editorial playlists across the US, Europe and Australia, and featured in KCRW’s ‘5 Songs To Hear This Week’.
Other singles such as Tell Me featured on Spotify US’s ‘Best Retro Songs of 2022’, while You Know Better and If You Wanna Love Me ooze with the sound, the feel and all the emotion of classic soul, and were championed by ABC, Double J, community radio, triple j, NME, Under The Radar, FLOOD Magazine and more.
“Soul music never goes out of fashion because it’s pure,” WILSN says.
“It’s all about a great melody, a great beat and harmony that moves you and makes you feel something. In today’s landscape of artists trying so hard to do something different often for the sake of being different, it’s nice to just engage with the human voice in an unadulterated way.”
For tix to tonight’s gig visit www.tickets.oztix.com.au
