It took us twenty nine years to get back to Memphis but we finally did it! The first time around when we recorded the Big Don’t Argue we got a lot out of the place. There’s a strong ethic and sensibility to the way they make music there and all these years later we were thrilled to see it was as we remembered it. Sadly Jim Dickinson – who produced The Big Don’t Argue – is no longer with us but it was fantastic to work with his long time engineer Kevin Houston at Jim’s studio the Zebra Ranch. Having Jim’s son Cody Dickinson come into our session at Sam Phillips Studio and play wash board was a real thrill and pretty much the icing on the cake for a magical studio experience.
Significantly the album the Weddings recorded in Memphis was often considered our most focused as an Australian entity. It’s a question of perspective and I think with this set of tunes Memphis has done the trick again and on songs like Died in Ballarat, Lake Learmonth Motel, Boxing Day Drive and First Night in Asia the sense of the Australian vernacular has been refined and distilled. The band is sounding great and in Kevin Houston I think we have a producer and engineer as good as any we have worked with through the years.
The store is looking good with a bunch of exclusive-to-Pledge stuff on offer: postcards from the road, handwritten lyric sheets and setlists, a couple of primo instruments, signed vinyl and CDs, a collection of B-sides and rarities, songwriting workshops and even a talking book version of my autobiographical release entitled These Are the Words.
COLDWATER DFU recorded in Memphis Tennessee, Coldwater Mississippi, (and Coburg Victoria). Features the songs:
Boxing Day Drive
Bright Sunshine
River Again
Anything You Recognise
The Catalpa
Died in Ballarat
Murder Town
First Night in Asia
Aqua Profunda
Lake Learmonth Motel
The brand new album on a CD. These will be available last week of February. Price includes postage.
The brand new album on a CD, with the cover, back, or inside signed. Signed by Mick and Wally – and quite possibly Dave and Ben, or even the newbies Jac and Nick. Just let us know if you have any specifications in this area folks. These will be available last week of February. Price includes postage.
This is it – the record we have been sweating over the past year in it’s premium format. These will be available last week of February. Price includes postage (within Australia).
This is it – the record we have been sweating over the past year in it’s premium format. The first 80 copies signed on RED VINYL. These will be available last week of February. Price includes postage (within Australia).
A CD of the brand new album Coldwater DFU PLUS a CD of the five track Boxing Day Drive EP containing re-workings of three WPA classics.
Boxing Day Drive
House of Ghosts
Hug My Back
Aqua Profunda
A Tale They Won’t Believe
This package will be available last week of February. Price includes postage (within Australia).
The brand new album on vinyl plus the five track EP of Boxing Day Drive containing the re-working of three WPA classics:
Boxing Day Drive
House of Ghosts
Hug My Back
Aqua Profunda
A Tale They Won’t Believe
This package will be available last week of February. Price includes postage (within Australia).
A very special new and limited run album of Mick Thomas B-sides and previously unheard tracks from all 2016-17 singles plus 4 unreleased tracks with special guest performance by Liz Stringer.
1) A DVD and a New Tattoo
2) The Ballad of Peggy and Col
3) Aqua Profunda (Courtney Barnett)
4) Geisha Girl/ Lost to a Geisha Girl (Hank Locklin/Lawton Williams)
5) Sayonara (Shane McGowan)
6) Bali (Noel Coward)
7) The Luck of the Draw
8) Four Months Gone (featuring Liz Stringer)
9) Four Months Gone Hornpipe
10) CalliopeWaltz
Item will be ready to ship mid February. Price includes postage (within Australia).
A very special new and limited run album of Mick Thomas B-sides and previously unheard tracks from all 2016-17 singles plus 4 unreleased tracks with special guest performance by Liz Stringer.
1) A DVD and a New Tattoo
2) The Ballad of Peggy and Col
3) Aqua Profunda (Courtney Barnett)
4) Geisha Girl/ Lost to a Geisha Girl (Hank Locklin/Lawton Williams)
5) Sayonara (Shane McGowan)
6) Bali (Noel Coward)
7) The Luck of the Draw
8) Four Months Gone (featuring Liz Stringer)
9) Four Months Gone Hornpipe
10) CalliopeWaltz
Colourful A3 size from Mick’s various wanderings over the past couple of years: Broken Hill, Toronto, Cambodia, Vietnam, Gooloogong, Collingwood….
The brand new album on a CD, with the cover, back, or inside signed. Signed by Mick and Wally – and quite possibly Dave and Ben, or even the newbies Jac and Nick. Just let us know if you have any specifications in this area folks.
This is a talking book version of These Are the Days – READ BY MICK HIMSELF (and Darren Hanlon).
All t-shirts printed on quality A&S Colour ethically manufactured garments. Comes in S/M/L/XL/XXL. This will be a different design to the album tour shirt. Price includes postage (within Australia).
This is it – the record we have been sweating over the past year in it’s premium format. The first 80 copies on RED VINYL
This is a talking book version of These Are the Days – READ BY MICK HIMSELF (and Darren Hanlon).
All t-shirts printed on quality A&S Colour ethically manufactured garments. Comes in S/M/L/XL/XXL. This will be a different design to the album tour shirt. Price includes postage (within Australia).
This is a talking book version of These Are the Days – READ BY MICK HIMSELF (and Darren Hanlon).
Own a one-of-a-kind piece of art – a handwritten lyric sheet of any one of Mick’s songs of your choice. Each lyric sheet will be written in Mick Thomas’ unique scrawl in his trusty Spirex notebook and then mounted on high quality paper. These can be signed and personalised at the Pledger’s request. Price includes postage (within Australia).
You choose the song (within reason) and it’ll be covered by the Roving Commission, recorded and sent directly to you!
This is the very same Auden mandolin Mick played in the album sessions! Not to be confused with his road worn trusty live mando (nobody’s getting that one!). Hear it on Boxing Day Drive EP or go to Mick’s Facebook page to see it in action. Comes in a nice fitted hard case. This is a beaut little instrument that is going to be playable for a lot of years to come. Postage at buyer’s expense.
Get FIVE postcards from the road direct to you as Mick and the band travel across Australia promoting their new album March through to May 2018.
This is the original vinyl size album artwork, front and back, printed by a specialist printer on quality paper, and signed by the band. The item will be rolled and mailed in substantial postal tube for the pledger to be able to get it mounted themselves (rather than trying to mail and insure a glass frame). Includes postage within Australia.
All t-shirts printed on quality A&S Colour ethically manufactured garments. Comes in S/M/L/XL/XXL. This will be a different design to the album tour shirt. Price includes postage (within Australia).
Songwriting workshop:
- this will be a one on one experience with Mick
- the workshop will begin with Mick reconstructing the process for a few of his better known songs (chosen by consultation with the Pledger)
- we will then move onto working on a song with the Pledger
- date and time of the workshop by agreement with Pledger
- as there is a national tour planned for March/April/May in 2019 there will be opportunities to tie in with tour dates to Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Adelaide
- there will be a maximum of two workshops per day
- outside of the tour non-Victorian dates will need to be via careful consultation with Mick
Make a dream set list of any songs you want and Mick will get busy with his Sharpy on quality paper with all the instrument changes and capo postions – signed and personalised to the Pledger. Price includes postage (within Australia).
Coldwater DFU on vinyl, Boxing Day Drive 10" vinyl, Christmas Day at Spencer Street vinyl, 4 x sneaky 7" vinyl singles. Price includes postage (within Australia). That’s $160 worth of vinyl for $140.
