Three Days Celebrating The Best In Americana, Country, Roots And More At Sage Gateshead 21 – 23 JULY 2017 Friday 21 July The Shires plus special guest Sarah Darling , Merle Haggard’s Strangers Featuring Ben & Noel Haggard, plus Ashley Campbell & SummerTyne Late Lounge: Marlon Williams Saturday 22 July William […]
The Shires Shine at C2C UK’s most successful Country act – 2 GOLD ALBUMS IN 12 MONTHS – Hit second album ‘My Universe’ certified Gold alongside debut ‘Brave’ “The duets between The Shires’ Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes were an upbeat treat, particularly on party tune Friday Night” […]
Hit second album ‘My Universe’ certified Gold alongside debut ‘Brave’ Shires release stadium sized country rock single… ‘Drive’ with potential to break on both sides of the pond “Two genius singer-songwriters” Metro “A fantastic second album” Sunday Express “Their place in the vanguard of homegrown country is […]
He might not hold my hand any more But he’ll always, always hold my heart Shires vocalist Crissie Rhodes wrote heartfelt song lyrics to celebrate the memory of her father and share how he inspired her to ‘be anything she wanted to be’ and pursue a career in […]
Building Our Own Nashville’s Top 20 Country Albums of 2016 Putting together my top ten Country albums of 2016 has been so incredibly difficult that I increased it to top 20, but even that was a tough challenge. This year has brought us so many great albums and […]
Una Healy is a singer/songwriter who has just hit the country music scene. A singer/songwriter most of her life, Una is best known for being one fifth of pop group The Saturdays. Una has recently been on tour in the UK with country superstars Maddie and Tae and UK artists […]
CATCH THE UK’S MOST SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY ACT, THE SHIRES, ON THEIR CURRENT SOLD OUT UK WINTER TOUR AND CELEBRATE THEIR LANDMARK YEAR NEW ALBUM ‘MY UNIVERSE’ BECOMES FASTEST SELLING UK COUNTRY ALBUM OF ALL TIME ONE OF BIGGEST BREAKTHROUGH ACTS OF 2016 & BIGGEST SELLNG COUNTY ACT IN […]
You would think that as someone who has seen The Shires live numerous times now that I would want to have a break from seeing them or that it would be overkill, but it’s quite the opposite. With everything The Shires have achieved over the last couple of years, […]
THE SHIRES HIT AMERICA! BIG MACHINE LABEL GROUP PRESIDENT/CEO SCOTT BORCHETTA SIGNS THE SHIRES, FOLLOWING THE RELEASE OF ‘MY UNIVERSE’, THE FASTEST-SELLING UK COUNTRY ALBUM OF ALL TIME UK country duo The Shires make music history today by signing a ground-breaking record deal with the Nashville-based Big Machine […]
New album ‘My Universe‘ breaks all records landing at No.3 in UK Album Charts today The Shires have done it again. Last year they made chart history by becoming the first ever UK Country band to enter the Top 10 of the UK Album Chart with their debut, […]