MICK THOMAS’ ROVING COMMISSION ANNOUNCE ALL YOUR CHRISTMASES 2024 TOUR
MICK THOMAS’ ROVING COMMISSION ANNOUNCE ALL YOUR CHRISTMASES 2024 TOUR
It’s currently one of the worst-kept secrets in rock’n’roll, but tickets for the Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission Christmas tour are well and truly ON SALE already. The tour will take in Hobart, Canberra, Sydney, Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, Adelaide, Fremantle, Perth, Melbourne, plenty of regional Victoria and the Queenscliff Music Festival. There’s a bunch of quality opening acts, and on the back of Thursday’s sold Brunswick Ballroom Grand Final Eve Eve show – not to mention the foray across the ditch to make a record in Auckland at Neil Finn’s studio with award-winning producer Steve Schram that starts TODAY – the band will be buzzing. Tickets and more info are available at www.mickthomas.com
And on the subject of the recording, the crowdfunding platform for the Across the Ditch project is going to stay open another few days. Mick says, “We’ve been totally blown away by people’s generosity and their good faith to support a project that is at least six months from fruition – hell, it doesn’t even have a name at this stage! The pressure is on now. Time to cross the ditch and make a record I guess.’
Check out the crowdfunding packages here: www.mickthomas.com/crowdfunding
Stay tuned for album updates and word on a brand new seven song EP that will be coming out as a pre-cursor to the album.
MICK THOMAS’ ROVING COMMISSION ALL YOUR CHRISTMASES 2024 TOUR
Sat Nov 16 – Bundy Hall, Bundalaguah VIC with Bret Mosley
Sat Nov 23 – Republic Bar, North Hobart TAS with Rob Clarkson from the Nineties
Sun Nov 24 – QueensCliff Music Festival, VIC
Fri Nov 29 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine VIC with Norwood
Sat Nov 30 – The Eureka, Geelong VIC with Van Walker & the Ferriters
Sun Dec 1 – Odessa at Leavers, Creswick VIC with Skyscraper Stan
Thu Dec 5 – Smiths Alternative, Canberra ACT with Norwood
Fri Dec 6 – Petersham Bowlo, NSW with Bella Frankie
Sat Dec 7 – Stag & Hunter, Mayfield NSW with Aerial Maps
Sun Dec 8 – Lefty’s Music Hall, Petrie Terrace QLD with Bella Frankie
Thu Dec 12 – Wheatsheaf, Thebarton SA with Doctor DeSoto
Fri Dec 13 – Wheatsheaf, Thebarton SA with The Backyarders
Sat Dec 14 – Navy Club, Fremantle WA with Brooke Taylor and the Poison Spitting Gin Queens
Sun Dec 15 – Oxford Hotel, Leederville WA with Brooke Taylor and the Poison Spitting Gin Queens (4pm show)
Thu Dec 19 – Arcobar, Heatherton VIC with Norwood
Fri Dec 20 – Shotkickers, Thornbury VIC with Curly and the Fringe
Sat Dec 21 – Shotkickers, Thornbury VIC with Harry Hooky
Sun Dec 22 – Shotkickers, Thornbury VIC with Raccoo
Wed Jan 1 – New Years Day at Archies Creek Hotel VIC with Cool Sounds & Lisa Miller Trio
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Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, the hard-working band led by ARIA Award-winning singer songwriter and former Weddings Parties Anything main man Mick Thomas, are set to head to Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios in Auckland in October to record a new album with award-winning producer Steve Schram (Paul Kelly, Crowded House, Tesky Brothers).
To help make the record, which will follow their 2023 ARIA Top 40 Coolin’ By Sounds Records release Where Only Memory Can Find You, the band has announced a number of pre-order crowd funding packages, and also announced a brand new seven song EP that will be coming out as a pre-cursor to the album. Further information is available now on the band’s website.
Thomas has explained the decision to cross the ditch thusly: “It’s a really important thing for us to keep going forward each year and actually making new music and even though there’s been plenty out in the past few years, the origins of this album go way back to pre-covid lockdown days when we had planned to go to America to make another album.
“Does going away make an album any better? Does it mean The Big Don’t Argue (Memphis) is any better than Scorn (Melbourne) or Roaring Days (Sydney)? Or is Riveresque (Tasmania) is any better than King Tide (Melbourne)? Or is Last of the Tourists (Portland) superior to Memory Can Find You? Not necessarily – but the important thing is that each record has it’s own focus and that the individuals comprising the band at that point in time are best positioned to give it their best effort. And it’s good to be excited by the prospect of ‘what comes next’ and we are buzzing about this one. The studio looks ‘the business’ and Steve Schram seems like the sort of bloke we might be able to hook up with and produce something really special. Lookout Auckland!”
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission’s latest album Where Only Memory Can Find You
and Mick’s latest graphic novel Away Away: Rudi’s Story. A Photo, A Song, A Strange Tale
are out now
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