SINGLE PREMIERE: Timothy Nelson - 'The Working Weekend'

The fourth single from WA singer-songwriter Timothy Nelson's upcoming new album is a bittersweet, stripped-back number.

The Working Weekend, as Nelson told The Music, is about “life getting on, and people getting older, all through the perspective of a travelling musician”.

“Which is perhaps an even more interesting prospect right now,” he said.

“There are late nights, early flights, shows to play and people to see. The song jumps around a handful of Australian cities and winds up somewhere in Louisiana, giving you these little vignettes into the lives that people are living when you’re not there.

“There is a repetition in going away all the time, never staying in one spot for too long. Your friends are getting on with life, things change and you can feel like you’re stuck in a loop at times. The theme of questioning where your life is at is pretty broad of course, but this kind of isolated existence gives your outlook on everything a special kind of tint.

“But of course the touring life I’m writing about isn’t really available to anyone right now. There’s so many people in the music industry who are hard wired for a life on the road and we don’t know when that will really come back again.”

The Working Weekend is set to appear on Nelson’s forthcoming album, slated for release next March, alongside previous singles Your House, Biding Time and Summer The Say.

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