The Tambourine Girls Honour Bandmate Nick Weaver With Poignant Single 'Wrong Way'

NSW-based band The Tambourine Girls have returned with the poignant new single Wrong Way, honouring their close friend and bandmate, Nick Weaver, who passed away in 2021.

For their new track, bassist Pat Harris produced the track alongside Nick Franklin (Ocean Alley, Polish Club, Hockey Dad), who mixed it.

The Tambourine Girls began as the solo outlet for Simon Relf, the then-guitarist of Deep Sea Arcade, who formed the new band with Nick Weaver, Pat Harris, and Carlos Adura. The fully fledged band arrived following the release of 2014’s The End Of Time EP.

The Tambourine Girls found themselves in music with their self-titled album in 2016, 2018’s Waiting For Pleasure, and 2023’s Different Streets – a record finished in the shadow of loss.

Grief is still embedded within The Tambourine Girls. Relf explained, “We didn’t know if we could be a band anymore. So, we decided to pretend we were a new band. That was the only way forward.”

Harris added, “This song echoes the fork in the road we were standing at. We knew giving up would be easy — the ‘wrong way.’ But trying to make music without Nick… that was harder. And more honest.”

Relf noted, “He was the bar we set ourselves against. Now he’s this negative space we swim in. He’s still there.”

Wrong Way is out now – check it out below.

To celebrate the release of their latest single, The Tambourine Girls will perform a one-off special show at The Factory Floor in Sydney/Eora on Friday, 15 August. Tickets are available on the Factory Floor website.

The band said of the release of Different Streets in 2023, “This album has ended up representing both our finest achievements as a band and our greatest heartbreak. With our worlds turned upside down, the album froze for over a year while we grieved our best friend and tried to comprehend whether we could go on playing music without him, and what that would look like.

“With the help of our extremely talented and caring friends (Simon Berckelman, Antonia Gauci, Chloe Dadd, Tony Buchen and Nick Franklin), we were able to finish the record and create a body of work that was simultaneously the best music we ever made with Nick, as well as a tribute to him.”