Take a band built on individual award winners, add custom old time Western suits, glorious locations, high spirits, and the kind of old school country wordplay that suggests Willie Nelson, Roger Miller or Shel Silverstein, you get the video for “Goldfish,” the next grat track from Kenny Chesney’s eagerly anticipated Silver Sands Marina. When buzz about the technicolor, high whimsy clip started making the rounds, it wasn’t long until inquiries were made.
With Silver Sands Marina scheduled to drop Sept. 25, a select few outlets got to participate in today’s launch. Beyond CBS’ “Sunday Morning” re-airing Chesney’s profile from Key West, it was featured on NBC’s “TODAY,” “Entertainment Tonight,” and the Wall Street Journal’s brand new “My Two Sentences,” created to be short truth blasts to inspire heading into the weekend.
“Music’s power is that it’s positive energy and joy when you most need it,” the East Tennessee songwriter-superstar shared with the storied business publication. “Songs can change everything.”
“You listen to ‘Goldfish,’ where the guy wants to be all these animals based on their key attribute,” Chesney explains, “and it could almost be a children’s song. The melody is so happy, it bounces along and picks you up with it. But when you get to the chorus and you realize he’s cried a fishbowl of tears, ‘drunk as a skunk, trying to get over you,’ it’s so clever, smart and spinning the pain into a whole other commodity, who wouldn’t love this song?”
Written by double GRAMMY winner Tia Sillers, two-time Juno Award winner Tenille Townes and ACM/CMA Award winner Gordie Sampson, Chesney used lavish Hawaiian steel guitar to set a mood for a song that evokes a different era. Then he headed straight to Maui with Rosie & The Revival to romp through the Rodeo General Store, Mama’s Fish House and along Ku’au Bay.
“When a song has this much fun to every aspect of it, you want to capture the spirit for everyone to see,” Chesney explains. “The band and I had more fun than we can possibly share, whether it was walking on the beach like the Monkees, bringing that giant cardboard cut-out of Flat (Kenny) Greenberg, looking at the night sky, talking about life or just laughing at nothing… That’s the kind of joy I want people to take from this song, whether they’re dating, hating or just fine thank you.”
Add in hula girls, breaking waves, and a straight-to-camera delivery, this is the leader of No Shoes Nation at his freest and most exuberant. Having created some iconic videos – “American Kids,” “When The Sun Goes Down,” “Noise,” “Young” and even “Silver Sands Marina” – both the Shaun Silva-directed “Goldfish” and new track deliver on everything that has made Chesney not just stadium-sized for over two decades, but an artist who represents finding the positivity in every possible situation – even if it’s spinning the circumstances into a philosophical take that makes you smile.
Pre-order, pre-save/pre-add Silver Sands Marina HERE.
Purchase the signed vinyl, CDs and limited vinyl picture discs, or watch Chesney’s first in-depth conversation about Silver Sands Marina on TalkShopLive HERE.
Enter Shikari Announce New Companion Record "Dancing On The Frontline" & New US Tour Dates
Almost a year to the day since the release of their UK #1 album "A Kiss for the Whole World", Enter Shikari are announcing a new companion record "Dancing On The Frontline". The new record brings together remixes, non-album singles (featuring the likes of Wargasm, Cody Frost, AViVA and Fever 333’s Jason Aalon Butler), plus live recordings from the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show and Future Sounds shows. The record's opening track 'Goldfish (Shikari Sound System remix)' is out now. Pre-order "Dancing On The Frontline" HERE.
Talking about the new release, lead singer and producer Rou Reynolds says:
“We’re exactly one year on from the release of A Kiss For The Whole World, so it feels like the right time to present all our output from this crazy year, along with some new treats, all in one place. We’ve not had a lot of time or energy to do any Shikari Sound System mixes for a while, so it was great to be able to step back into that chair and remix 'Goldfish' and 'Bloodshot'. We tested out the Goldfish rework live on our UK & European tour and insanity ensued.”
Hear 'Goldfish (Shikari Sound System remix)' on streaming services here and watch below.
"Dancing On The Frontline" also comes with a Blu-ray of the band's headline performances at Slam Dunk Festival UK in 2023 and Germany's Vainstream Festival in the summer of 2022, with both shows edited by the band’s longtime visual collaborator Oleg Rooz.
Their much-lauded live show has since been all around the world, covering the USA, Australia, Europe, UK, Ireland and more. Audiences in the UK also witnessed the band's biggest ever headline tour to date of the country's arenas, an audio-visual spectacular that The Guardian awarded four stars and heralded as "the beginning of Enter Shikari’s greatest chapter."
Watch 'Bloodshot' live from Slam Dunk Festival HERE
Watch 'Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour' live from Slam Dunk Festival HERE
Watch 'The Paddington Frisk' live from Vainstream Festival HERE
Photo credit: Paul Harries
In October the band will bring special guests You Me At Six out on the road with them, as they journey through North America on what will be You Me At Six's final ever shows in the continent, ahead of their split in 2025.
Talking about the upcoming tour, Reynolds continues:
"In October, Enter Shikari bring special guests You Me At Six to the states for a fresh headline run. "North America has always been difficult for Shikari, long tours, thousands of miles, and playing venues smaller than most of the other rooms we get to visit around the world. But we’ve always kept returning because there’s a real zest and passion from our audience out there, even if fewer people ‘get us’.
Recently things seem to have begun sizzling a bit more for us, with more shows selling out and more intensity in the crowds. So it’s some reward for our tenacity that we’re returning in October for what will be our biggest ever North American headline tour. And that will be made all the sweeter by being able to bring our friends You Me At Six with us for this one. We’ve known each other a long time, but somehow only ever played a couple of shows together, so the fact that they’re joining us for what will be their last ever USA & Canada tour really means something to us."
Australian pop-punks Yours Truly will also be joining the tour as openers on all dates.
2024 North American Tour Dates:
Wed 10/9/24 - Dallas, TX, South Side Music Hall
Thu 10/10/24 - Austin, TX, Empire Garage
Sat 10/12/24 - Houston, TX, Warehouse live Midtown
Wed 10/16/24 - Washington, DC, Howard Theater
Thu 10/17/24 - Philadelphia, PA, Union Transfer
Fri 10/18/24 - Boston, MA, Paradise Rock Club
Sat 10/19/24 - New York, NY, Palladium
Mon 10/21/24 - Montreal, QC, Théâtre Beanfield
Wed 10/23/24 - Toronto, ON, Danforth Music Hall
Thu 10/24/24 - Chicago, IL, Metro
Fri 10/25/24 - Minneapolis, MN, First Ave
Sat 10/26/24 - Davenport, IA, Capitol Theatre
Sun 10/27/24 - St Louis, MO, Red Flag
Tue 10/29/24 - Denver, CO, Gothic Theater
Wed 10/30/24 - Salt Lake City, UT, The Complex
Fri 11/1/24 - Spokane, WA, Knitting Factory
Sat 11/2/24 - Vancouver, BC, Commodore Ballroom
Sun 11/3/24 - Portland, OR, Wonder Ballroom
Mon 11/4/24 - Seattle, WA, Showbox
Wed 11/6/24 - Sacramento, CA, Ace of Spades
Thu 11/7/24 - San Francisco, CA, August Hall
Fri 11/8/24 - San Diego, CA, House of Blues
Sat 11/9/24 - Los Angeles, CA, The Belasco
US Festival Appearances
May 12 - Daytona Beach, FL - Welcome To Rockville 2024
May 16 - Columbus, OH - Sonic Temple 2024
More about Enter Shikari
5 UK top ten albums
2 UK top 40 singles
2 BRIT certified silver albums and 1 BRIT certified gold album
Multiple Kerrang! award winners, AIM Award winners and Heavy Music Award winners
3000 shows worldwide
Download full biography HERE
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