[1] During his final year of high school, Nicholson was part of a band called Freak, which won an early round of Triple J Unearthed competition in the Sunshine Coast division.

[2] Shortly after this, the band name changed to Pretty Violet Stain and released an extended play in 1997 called Blush.

Nicholson joined with wife Kasey Chambers for the album Rattlin' Bones, which was released in April 2008 and debuted at number 1 on the ARIA charts.

In March 2011, Nicholson released his sixth solo album, Bad Machines, which peaked at number 29.

In September 2012, Nicholson and Chambers released a second collaborative album, Wreck & Ruin was peaked at number 6 on the ARIA Charts.

On 23 April 2013, it was announced that Nicholson and Kasey Chambers had separated, with the collision of work and family life said to have forced their split.

June 2015 saw the release of "Secondhand Man", the first single from Nicholson's album Hell Breaks Loose.

[9] Nicholson appeared as an on-camera music producer in ABC television production of The Recording Studio, a 10-part series that ran in April 2019.

[10] The music from the series won the 2019 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.

[18] In 2002, Chambers sung on Nicholson's debut solo album "Designed to Fade", which was produced by Kasey's brother, Nash.

Chambers and Nicholson have two children: son Arlo Ray (2007) and daughter Poet Poppin (2011).

The APRA Music Awards is annual awards ceremony that celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performance.