Timothy Nelson

Singer-Songwriter/Performer
Timothy Nelson

Timothy Nelson is a 14-time WAM Award winner, including Best Album, Best Male Vocalist, and Song of the Year. A fixture of the Perth music scene since his teens, he first broke through with his band The Infidels, touring nationally and sharing stages with Parquet Courts, The Whitlams, and Megan Washington.
As a songwriter, he’s collaborated with hip hop artists Drapht on singles The Come Down Was Real and Summer They Say, and co-written tracks for Melbourne soul act Wilsn, and Perth singer-songwriter Siobhan Cotchin.
In recent years, Nelson has toured as a keyboard player with Eskimo Joe, lectured in songwriting at WAAPA and UWA, and launched A New Song Every Week—a YouTube series documenting  the writing of 52 original songs in 2023..
His long-awaited sophomore album Debaser Tapes landed in 2024, surpassing one million streams, receiving national airplay on Double J and ABC, and becoming RTRFM’s Local Feature Album.