But he still gets nervous when it is his own music. 

“I’m always a little nervous going out and playing new songs to people,” Lane said.

“If I’m doing a show playing with You Am I or Jimmy Barnes, you can guarantee you are going to play in front of a crowd and when you play a big show, it’s just a sea of heads.

“At smaller venues it is even more nerve-racking when you can see the whites of people’s eyes, but it keeps you on your toes.”

The singer-songwriter and guitarist starts his tour of new album I’m Gonna Burn Out Bright on Friday in Adelaide, before playing at The Eastern in Ballarat on Saturday, October 14.

The album follows the releases of his debut EP The Good Borne Of Bad Tymes and 2014 debut full-length solo record, Atonally Young.

“I wanted to keep the ball rolling, but it felt like I was starting from scratch again,” Lane said.

“I had the vision in my head for the kind of record I wanted to make and I’d always wanted to do that solitary thing of making a record in your garage.” 

Lane described the sound as pop music with unconventional, and sometimes awkward and unsettling chord changes and melodies.

“My friend Mark Wilson described my music as wonky pop, and that sums it up for me, it’s pop music that sounds like it has been melted in the sun, it’s a little bit woozy,” he said.

“I have been inspired by different kinds of sound and different songs, so (with this album) I thought I may as well try something new and I’d like for whoever listens to it to be surprised by what they hear.”

Lane said he “genuinely loved” coming up to play his music in Ballarat, and while he had done shows at Her Majesty’s Theatre, the now-closed Bridge Mall Inn and Karova Lounge, it would be his first time performing at The Eastern. 

“There is always a handful of enthusiastic folk who come along to the shows and I have some dear friends who live up there,” Lane said.