For eleven years Mitch James has been releasing music and touring the world.

He’s opened for Callum Scott, supported Ed Sheeran, and toured with Six60, not to mention his own tours.

James has just released a new single and has a new EP coming out next month, but the release comes with a caveat.

The Kiwi musician is stepping away from the trade, James telling Heather du Plessis-Allan that the industry has become an environment that was just too difficult to overcome.

“I’ve got this music coming out now that I believe is my most complete, most mature, advanced work as a songwriter and an artist, and coupled with the fact that this industry had sort of turned against me in a lot of ways, I just thought, you know. I’m sick of this.”

“I just wanna hang my hat on something that I can look back on in twenty years’ time and go like, this is my finest work, and something that I can be very proud of.”

It’s a bittersweet feeling, he said.

For eleven years Mitch James has been releasing music and touring the world.

He’s opened for Callum Scott, supported Ed Sheeran, and toured with Six60, not to mention his own tours.

James has just released a new single and has a new EP coming out next month, but the release comes with a caveat.

The Kiwi musician is stepping away from the trade, James telling Heather du Plessis-Allan that the industry has become an environment that was just too difficult to overcome.

“I’ve got this music coming out now that I believe is my most complete, most mature, advanced work as a songwriter and an artist, and coupled with the fact that this industry had sort of turned against me in a lot of ways, I just thought, you know. I’m sick of this.”

“I just wanna hang my hat on something that I can look back on in twenty years’ time and go like, this is my finest work, and something that I can be very proud of.”

It’s a bittersweet feeling, he said.

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