SHANNEN JAMES RELEASES
‘BREAKFAST WITH YOU’
+ ANNOUNCED AS MAIN
SUPPORT FOR SYCCO’S
AUSTRALIAN TOUR
It’s with great excitement that Ivy League Records release the exciting new single ‘Breakfast With You’ from Melbourne’s Shannen James. ‘Breakfast With You’ sees James taking all her influences and putting them into a blender, resulting in an effortless and catchy indie-pop-meets-country tune with a hook that is impossible not to want to scream at the top of your lungs. To coincide with the release, James has been announced as the main and only support on Sycco’s upcoming Australian headline tour, playing shows in Sydney, Ballarat, Torquay, Melbourne & Adelaide across March – April.
Vibrant and ridiculously fun, on both the video and track James isn’t afraid to lean right into the playful country inferences that saturate BWY, taking the opportunity to pay homage to some of her favourite pop artists of the 90s – artist like Shania Twain and LeAnn Rimes who James looked up to as a kid.
VIDEO: Shannen James – ‘Breakfast With You’
Lyrically, the song is as much about the empowering energy of enjoying your own company as it is a tongue in cheek ode to “the ick”. As James sings “What’s it gonna take, for you to understand? I wanna be alone!” BWY becomes an anthem for anyone who has been on a terrible date.
Of the track, James says: “This song was born out of a little guitar riff I had recorded on my phone that to be honest, was rather simple yet there was something so catchy about it! With some finessing and playing around with it for a while with the amazing Xavier Dunn, it morphed into more of a country-esq groove. We went on to write the song in a day loved how playful and cheeky it was, both lyrically and musically. Let this be a be the song you play for someone when you’re maybe trying to let them down easy, or equally, not so easy!”
As an emerging artist who, like so many up-and-coming artists, has had numerous touring and recording set-backs due to COVID, James still managed to put out a highlight track of 2022 via single ‘Superstitious’, as well as selling out her debut headline east coast tour and a one off show at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne.
Stay tuned for more exciting Shannen James news.
SYCCO AUSTRALIAN TOUR W/SHANNEN JAMES SUPPORTINGTHU 17 MAR – OXFORD ART FACTORY, SYDNEY NSWWED 23 MAR – THE EASTERN, BALLARAT VICTHU 24 MAR – TORQUAY HOTEL, TORQUAY VICFRI 25 MAR – THE NIGHT CAT, MELBOURNESUN 10 APR – JIVE, ADELAIDE SAFurther details can be found HERE
Shannen James – ‘Breakfast With You’ Out now through Ivy League Records Listen/watch here
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