BAND SHOW - SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Sam and his band will be playing their first show in ages on Sunday September 26, 2010. They will be joining Bryan Estepa, Nic Dalton and Russell Crawford for an afternoon of live music at the Petersham Bowling Club (Brighton Street, Petersham). The show is estimated to run from 3pm til 7pm; stay tuned for more information and check your usual guides and sites for further news.

UPDATE FROM SAM - JUNE 2010

Hey people, We have been working really hard on our fourth album and we have made a lot of progress since I last left an update. We pretty much just have some overdubs to do, then it has to be mixed, mastered and so forth but the actual recording is almost done!

There are 11 songs, and we are really happy with how they are sounding. I hope you will like it to, when you get to hear it. When that will be, I have no idea. If anyone has some album title suggestions, please drop me a line!

Thanks,
Sam
June 2010

UPDATE FROM SAM - MAY 2010

Morning all, I just thought I would give you an update on what has been going in SAM-land, particularly with the progress we are making on Album#4.

We have finished all the drums, bass, keys and my rhythm guitar parts. The remaining tasks include T-Bone's lead guitar, my vocals and some overdubs of piano, backing vocals etc. In other words, we are well and truly making progress on the 11 new songs.

Having said that, I'm not sure how long the above mentioned tasks will take, given real life sometimes will be getting in the way of things. I also have no idea about a release date etc. I am super happy with how it is all sounding; the moods are quite varied as are the songs, but I think if anything they are pretty catchy songs.

From the heavier rockin' tunes to the acoustic ones, I am happy with them all thus far. Wes is back from touring the States with The Church (the legendary Oz act) and he has some amazing stories involving Al Stewart, Big Star and Gram Parsons to name but a few. He is working hard, as we all are, to make this album as strong as it can be.

Here are some song titles (in absolutely no order whatsoever):
- Twin Cities
- (Untitled
- One Day I Won't Forget)
- The Longest Weekend Of My Life
- (Untitled - Feel So Much Better)
- The Movie Of Your Life
- (Untitled - Good Things)
- Jennifer Don't Cry - Credits Roll
- (Untitled - Everything To Me)
- (Untitled - Beside You)
- (Untitled - Grand Plans)

That's about all for now. I will say I saw Wilco play the Factory Theatre two weeks ago and they were life-changing. 10/10. Top 10, if not Top 5 shows of all-time. Gold.

Take care,
Sam May 2010

Overseas Reviews

Sam's current album 'Then I Held My Breath' has been receiving some (mostly!) glowing reviews and airplay in the United Kingdom and Europe.

These can be found in the press section on this site. The most high profile of these reviews so far has been in The Irish Times. We'll keep adding the reviews to the site as they come in.

'GIRLS' CLIP NOW ONLINE ALONG WITH ALL SAM'S VIDEOS

The new clip for 'Girls' from Sam's current album is finally ready. It was lovingly made by Adam 'T-Bone' Taylor and can be found on the Gallery and Media page along with all of Sam's other clips.

MESS AND NOISE FEATURE

Daniel Herborn has written a great feature on Sam for Mess and Noise.
http://www.messandnoise.com/articles/3388100

Sam was lovingly dragged onstage by his favourite Australian band Smudge at the Hopetoun in Sydney August 30, 2008 to sing 'Divan' with them as an encore.

Photo by Matt Braaten

SAM SHINAZZI - THEN I HELD MY BREATH

Sam Shinazzi's new album ‘Then I Held My Breath’ was released in September 2008. It is the Sydney songwriter’s third full length recording and is released by Black Lodge Audio. The first single was titled ‘Today We Lost A Great One’, with the new single 'Please Don't Let Me Forget' released late November. They can be heard in full on Sam’s MySpace page. We encourage you to request them on your favourite radio station.

Sam’s regular band consisting of Adam ‘T-Bone’ Taylor, Tessa Benjamin, Bruno Brayovic of Peabody and Anthony The of Skull Squadron all played major roles in the recording process. Guests on the album include alt-country wizard Jason Walker, 78 Saab’s Nicholai Danko, The Devoted Few’s Skye Knight and Little Sky’s Elizabeth Payne.

‘Then I Held My Breath’ was produced by Sam Shinazzi and his close friend / musical collaborator Adam Wes Gregorace. It was was mixed by the ARIA award winning engineer Wayne Connolly (The Vines, Josh Pyke, Youth Group).