By TANIA PHILLIPS
MULTI-platinum singer/songwriter Damien Leith is taking his forthcoming album ‘Chapter Seven’ on the road with a national Australian Tour which began in Perth last week.
The show will be an intimate acoustic setting and will feature all his new songs as well as some of the songs he’s well-known for.
Audiences will be treated to beautifully crafted songs, some he even wrote with legendary Joe Melson who wrote Roy Orbison’s Crying and Only the Lonely.
“I’m really looking forward to taking these songs on the road and getting out to places I haven’t been to in a while,” Damien said.
Chapter Seven will arrive in November, with support from the first release single, ‘Without a Fight’. Damien admits he’s in seventh heaven.
“I’m absolutely thrilled with it,” he said of the independent album.
“There’s a sound that runs through the entire album and it’s my sound.”
With his seventh studio album on the horizon, Damien Leith is feeling more inspired than he’s ever been as he enters a new and exciting phase of his career.
The enormously popular singer and songwriter has returned to his roots as a songwriter and has penned 12 new original tracks for his appropriately titled album ‘Chapter Seven’.
Damien’s story thus far is familiar to millions. He won the affection of a nation through the vehicle of reality TV, and enjoyed multiple platinum-selling albums on a major record label.
Damien’s new chapter is a story of independence, and a new direction.
The Irish-born troubadour recorded Chapter Seven in a studio he built himself. The result is an honest and poetic collection of beautifully crafted songs that showcase Damien’s vocals and songwriting skills like never before. What’s more, this time Damien takes control on the recording and production front as well.
“I’ve never been this strongly involved on all sides of a project, from the writing, the production, the mixing… everything!” Damien said.
“I’ve worked countless hours on this album, often losing track of time and being totally consumed by the music. It’s been such a rewarding and exciting experience.”
Damien has certainly come a long way, in every sense. The multi-talented artist has called Australia home for more than a decade. Australia, in his words, “has been good” to him.
Early on, he performed and toured with his family group, the independent act “Leaf”, and later “Releaf”. His career skyrocketed when he contested the 2006 edition of Australian Idol, a series he went on to win. Damien captured the attention of a nation, and brought the country along with him for an incredible ride.
Who: Damien Leith
Where: Soundlounge
When: Thursday 7 November
