![]() O'Shea began fishing while growing up thanks to the influence of his older siblings. Me and a mate used to scale a fence and jump on to these old boats that were under repair and fish off them, pretty stupid, we probably could've got arrested for fishing which wouldn't have been that great." "I remember pulling a couple of very strange fish from the Harbour there one day. "I had no idea to be honest!" he says of the species he targeted while fishing Australia's largest city. While O'Shea doesn't profess to being an expert angler, he says he loves fishing just the same. While living in Sydney's inner west he spent time fishing around Sydney Harbour near Haberfield and Drummoyne. He spent a decade in Sydney before relocating to Los Angeles and eventually on to Nashville. Thirty six year old Mark O'Shea grew up in Queensland in Dalby, west of Brisbane, about an hour from Toowoomba. "It's been going pretty well, and we're very fortunate." Obviously we moved to Nashville to really give it a serious go over here and at one point we sort of thought, wouldn't it be great if we could just get to a point in our careers where it would pay for us to go home once a year? In the last 18 months I think I've been back nine times, you know," said O'Shea. "It came out about a month or so ago and it's been doing really great (in Australia), hence all the trips backwards and forwards. The couple's professional partnership has since gone from strength to strength, culminating with the recent release of their second album One + One, the follow-up to 2011's Mr. we just thought we'd fight too much but that wasn't the case and we're glad." "We were having such a great time, that was something we thought that we'd never do. They went on to form a duo after discovering out of necessity (to reduce costs Mark played guitar for Jay, and Jay performed backing vocals for Mark) that things just clicked when they worked together. When the O'Sheas moved to Nashville they had already forged successful solo music careers. Everyone who's a songwriter kinda comes here or lives here at some time or another." ![]() ![]() There are lots of recording studios and it's a sort of hub for songwriting for the world. "It's a lot less expensive than LA and New York and it's also really a great music community. There are a bunch of people that have sort of nothing to do with country music that all call Nashville home."Īccording to O'Shea, some of the biggest music acts in the world live in Nashville including Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, The Black Keys, Jack White (White Stripes), Kesha and Ben Folds. "It is, absolutely, but it's also in the last few years it's really become another major music hub. "Obviously the music business thing here is pretty big but other than that it's just a really liveable city."įW: So is Nashville the country music capital of the world as they say? "I just love the place, it's a great city," he says of his adopted American hometown. We've just come back and are settled now for at least the next four months or so," Mark O'Shea told Fisho recently from Nashville. "We've done a fair bit of touring over there and released a record. They make regular trips back to Australia and last year scored the Best New Talent award at Tamworth's Golden Guitar Awards. The couple have lived in the heart of country music, Nashville, Tennessee, since 2007. Mark and his wife Jay make up the aptly named duo O'Shea, a country act that has attracted plenty of interest in their native country and in their adopted US. Mark O'Shea is an Australian country music performer on the rise. I'm a good man I think," Cassar Daley sings on his recent recording 'I Love This Place'. Troy Cassar Daley is one well known musician who's keen on wetting a line whenever the opportunity arises. It's also been well documented that some Australian country music stars have a passion for fishing. ![]() A Country Boy Can Survive) Smallmouth bass have got me hooked on Sunday afternoons (Eric Church - Love Your Love the Most) I got a brand new rod and reel, got a few weeks off this year (Montgomery Gentry - Lucky Man) All of a sudden going fishing, wasn't such an imposition (Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying). You don't have to delve far into a country music songbook either to find lyrics about fishing: I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn.(Hank Williams Jr. Over the years big name American country stars like Brad Paisley have released tunes with titles like I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song). IN popular music there aren't many genres that feature songs or titles about fishing – that is, outside of country music.įishing and country music have long shared an association and seem to go hand in hand.
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