10 Year Plan

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The Shires New Single Echo". Yourlifeinasong.com. 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 9 December 2018 . Retrieved 8 December 2018. formed after Ben (from Hertfordshire) appealed on Facebook for a female country singer to work with him. Crissie (from Bedfordshire), a friend of a friend, replied, came round the very next day and they discovered an instant chemistry. Alone in the Universe tour ( Electric Light Orchestra) (UK: Wembley Stadium and KCOM Stadium only) (2017) [39] Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts". Officialcharts.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010 . Retrieved 19 March 2015.

Bringing wild west country instrumentation to the fore, but still peaking with a classy, transatlantic Fleetwood Mac chorus, it echoes how The Wandering Hearts have successfully married timeless rootsy textures and infectious earworm melodies to create a sound that won’t be dated to any particular scene or era.

The Shires". Theshiresmusic.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2015. In March 2020, The Shires were announced to be playing the main stage at the C2C: Country to Country festival, replacing Old Dominion who withdrew due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, making The Shires the first UK country act to perform a set on the main stage. The Shires are the UK’s biggest country music export. Their achievements speak for themselves: three consecutive UK Top 3 albums, four #1 UK Country albums, 100 million+ streams, two Gold-certified records, and countless sold-out headline shows, including filling the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Now The Shires announce the release of their soul-stirring new album ‘10 Year Plan’ out on 11th March 2022.

About Ben Earle". planetradio.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 May 2023 . Retrieved 12 May 2023. Although it’s debatable whether or not The Shires qualify as a proper country band, they certainly fit in with the likes of Lady A, Little Big Town, early Taylor Swift and all those other contemporary acts who, armed with radio-friendly pop melodies, modern production techniques and huge crossover appeal, gatecrashed Music Row and ruffled a lot of traditionalist feathers. He was proven right, as Rhodes continues: “The number of people enjoying country music has exploded in the UK, but it still feels like an undercurrent. Even recently, we’ve had people come to our shows and say they were surprised, because they didn’t think country was for them!”The Shires first broke through in 2014 with their single ‘Nashville Grey Skies’, a playful song about Britain needing its own country scene. And that’s something which they helped happen, starting with their 2015 debut ‘Brave’, which became the first ever Top 10 album by a UK country music artist. That success continued with a succession of hit albums: 2016’s ‘My Universe’, 2018’s ‘Accidentally On Purpose’ and 2020’s ‘Good Years’. Earle says, “We love the Coldplay/‘Greatest Showman’ vibes on this! it’s not trying to be clever, it’s just really uplifting and big and positive. It’s another one that has arena vibes – I can picture us being up there on a massive stage with everyone singing along.” Chart Archive > 20 March 2020". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 23 October 2020 . Retrieved 21 March 2020. As part of BBC Radio 2's coverage of a festival, the Shires were included as a segment in a documentary titled " Nashville UK", which assessed country music's standing in the UK and, as one of its promising artists, their determination to export their British country roots to their American counterparts. [6] The Shires have composed songs with hit Nashville songwriter Steve Mcewan (Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood) and Play Productions an accomplished Swedish writing and production company, who comprise Tim Larsson, Johan Fransson and Tobias Lundgren, who have worked with Rascal Flatts and Celine Dion. [4] [7] 2014–2015: Brave [ edit ] The Shires make UK country history with Big Machine record deal". Musicweek.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016 . Retrieved 30 October 2016.

Both are inspired by the old-school workmanship of country music’s professional songwriters – people they would later work with on their first trip to Nashville last summer. Learning at first hand the storytelling style of classic country songs, and how to craft a catchy chorus, the duo then injected elements that could only have come from our side of the pond. Forever Tonight comes with an R&B-alike groove, but still has a country-pop sound. This leads to a very interesting blend. Finally, this leads to more focus on this song than it deserves on this album. 12. Peggy I’m Sorry The Shires". Theshiresmusic.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015 . Retrieved 13 March 2015. For Greatest Hits: "Chart Archive > 13 March 2020 – 19 March 2020". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021 . Retrieved 14 March 2020. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.Chart Archive > 27 April 2018". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018 . Retrieved 28 April 2018. One tune, “Wild Hearts”, has a preposterous stadium kitsch, an enjoyably catchy anthem with an ironic singalong vibe akin to 1980s Bon Jovi monsters, or maybe Lady Gaga at her most outré. But that’s your lot. The rest is squeaky clean, earnest, super-produced, X Factor-ish suburbia music to be filed next to Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits and brought out when the divorce case looms after Geoff runs off with Dawn from Accounts.