Shark enjoying bite at big time
IT was only a few months ago that Amy Shark’s day job was video editor for the Gold Coast Titans.
Now her debut single Adore has reached platinum sales, 11 million streams on Spotify and reached the upper echelons of any chart that matters as she posts the “sold out” sign on her first headlining tour.
Her tour schedule and imminent release of Adore internationally ahead of her debut EP meant she had to quit her Titans gig.
“I didn’t want to give it away because music had never been that stable for me, I didn’t even have a label when the song was just added to Triple J,” she said.
She now has management, record label deals throughout the world and agents to plot her global touring plans.
Yet all of this seemingly overnight success has been years in the making; she played every cover gig she could find while developing her acoustic meets hip-hop beats sound.
And she mastered the art of the comeback after years of fielding requests for Cold Chisel and AC/DC classics.
“There were so many stupid requests and I refuse to learn how to play Khe Sahn,” she said.
“Or old AC/DC. My response to that would usually be ‘You know I am just a girl sitting here with an acoustic guitar? You think I am going to rip out one of those? Have another beer’.”
Ironically, Sydney hardcore punk band Hellions chose to cover Adore for Triple J’s weekly, inventive, karaoke segment Like a Version last Friday.
“I love punk, I was so stoked to have a song like that tipped on it's a***,” Shark said.
Shark released Weekends, the second taster from her upcoming debut EP Night Thinker, this week, another “dark” song celebrating the obsessive intensity of new love. She said her husband Shane never asks if her songs are about him or her exes. But she does go into great details about the stories behind the songs when she performs them.
“I would want to know what every line was about!” she said.
Night Thinker will be released on April 21.