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Mick Thomas’ new album out today!

MICK THOMAS' ROVING COMMISSION "SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE: A POSTCARD FROM APRIL 2020" OUT TODAY!

Mick Pacholli
Mick Pachollihttps://www.tagg.com.au
Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.        

LIVE-STREAM ALBUM LAUNCH

WITH GUESTS INCLUDING ANGIE HART, NICK BARKER, VAN WALKER & JEN ANDERSON, WITH BRIAN NANKERVIS AS MC, THIS SUNDAY NIGHT!

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission’s new album is all done and dusted and out NOW (on digital platforms), and June 26 (LP and CD).

Written and recorded in lockdown, See You On the Other Side: A Postcard from April 2020 features seven songs, including “See You When I’m Looking At You”, the nine-minute chain song Mick conceived in early April and spent a month working on with friends Angie Hart (Frente), Nick Barker, Vikki Thorn (The Waifs), Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short, Alana Jagt, Brooke Russell, Van Walker, Ron S. Peno (Died Pretty), Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds), Ben Salter, Dana Gehrman, Cam Butler & Jen Anderson.

The album is released digitally with LP and CD a week away.. Mick has a number of bundles available to pre-order, including one which contains ten copies of the album delivered and a forty minute, ten song Zoom concert for ten people. Full details and pre-orders are available at www.mickthomas.com/albums-sales/

The album’s tracklisting is as follows:

1. See You When I’m Looking at You (radio edit) 03:58
2. Rainbows and Bears 04:03
3. Round 14, 2009 04:58
4. I Heard Sally Singing 03:48
5. Ghost Train to Mernda 04:23
6. Mint Condition 02:41
7. See You When I’m Looking at You (full version) 08:51

Mick explains how the songs all came together after he started working on the epic song: “I had thought to send it to Sal Kimber who I then remembered was pretty much going into labour around this time and I got to thinking how long ago her show at the Merri Creek Tavern seemed (it was only about two weeks previous – March 13). This gave me the idea for the tune ‘I Heard Sally Singing’. Then the weekend after the footy was cancelled I turned on the telly to see the first of the classic matches they were replaying was ‘Round 14, 2009’ and I recalled a throwaway song I had written by that name last August and so it was time to get that one up to speed. ‘Rainbows and Bears’ came easily enough as I walked around Northcote each afternoon, and then one evening walking home past the railway my daughter commented that the trains were empty – even though there had been people on the platform. They just seemed to vanish onto the train. Maybe it’s a ghost train I said. Where was it going? she asked and I answered Mernda (because it was). ‘Ghost Train to Mernda’ – sometimes it’s the title that drives the song. We released the single ‘Mint Condition’ in the middle of the lockdown to coincide with the release of the short form drama series of the same name so its place on the record was assured.

See You On the Other Side: A Postcard from April 2020 will be launched with a full band performance live streamed from St Kilda’s beautiful Memo Music Hall, this Sunday 21st June, with guests including Angie Hart, Nick Barker, Van Walker, and MC Brian Nankervis. It is a ticketed event – tickets and full details available at www.memomusichall.com.au

See You On the Other Side: A Postcard from April 2020 is now (on digital platforms) and June 26 (LP and CD)

Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.        

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