Shane McLeay started in the music business, touring and recording with veteran gospel 80’s band Turn The Page when he was only sixteen years old, then went on to play in numerous bands over the last two decades also working on many albums during that time.
Odyssey is Shane’s first solo album and the break through single from the album, “Hold On” received rave reviews prior to its official release and debuted at No.1 on commercial radio station MAX FM listener driven music charts. “Hold On” has also been well received internationally, especially in Canada where the song extensive radio play resulting in unanticipated success in that country, all this before its official release. The album was been co produced with Shane, his bass player Jason Brooks, guitarist Greg Nix and producer Peter Stevenson. Paul Cook and Peter Bull were also heavily involved in the overall sound, "it was great working in the studio with the same guys who play live with me", commented Shane.
Shane’s song “Hold On” was used to promote the controversial Australian movie “Hobby Farm”, winner of the 2008 New York Film Festival. The films award winning producer Brad Diebert, creator and director of Hobby Farm along with his production crew filmed the clip for “Hold On” which was used to promote Hobby Farm around the world.
Shane has undertaken a hectic series of press commitments already and has recently completed an extensive tour to promote his new album Odyssey, Shane says, “We have been overwhelmed by all the support and messages of encouragement from our supporters".
Recently Shane has been writing songs for other artists projects and he has just signed on to write for a new Brad Diebert movie.
