Mick Thomas
Michael James Thomas (born 7 February 1960, Yallourn) is an Australian singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist and hotelier. Thomas was the founding mainstay of a folk rock group, Weddings Parties Anything (1984–1998), and leader of Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing. He has also released material as a solo artist.
Biography
Michael James Thomas was born in Yallourn on 7 February 1960 and is the middle child of three. His older brother, Steve, was later a playwright. Their father, Brian Darvall Thomas (2 February 1925 – 12 September 2003), was a World War II naval veteran (23 April 1942 – 17 July 1946) and an electrical engineer with the State Electricity Commission. Brian's family were from Tasmania and his wife, Margaret, was from northern Victoria. They met in Melbourne after Brian returned from his war service.
The family moved with Brian's work, from Gippsland to Colac, Horsham and then Geelong. When Thomas was 15, in Geelong, he started playing folk music, initially as a solo artist. He was a member of Southern Aurora, and from 1978 to 1980 in Never Never Band which issued an independent single, "It Doesn't Mean Anything". Other members of Never Never Band were Brolga, Archie Cuthbertson on drums, Wendy Harrison on bass guitar, and Joe Nadoh on guitar. In 1981 (at age 21) he moved to Melbourne where he fronted a 1960s pop revival group, The Acrobats, from 1982 to 1983. He attended university and completed an arts degree, with majors in history, literature and sociology. With Cuthbertson other members of The Acrobats were David Adams on drums, Joe Colarazo, and Chris Dyson. He spent two years in the local pub rock scene first in 1983 in Where's Wolfgang with Adams and Dyson joined by Shane Day; and then in 1984 in Trial.
Podcasts:
Mick Thomas
ALBUMS
- Song Bingo released: 2012
- The Last of the Tourists released: 2012
- Anythings, Sure Things, Other Things released: 2004
Mick Thomas
ALBUMS
- Famous Last Words released:
Michael Thomas
ALBUMS
- Music Live From The Panel released: 2002
- I'm in Love... With That Song! released: 1999
- Lullaby and Goodnight released: 1996
- RRR: Used & Recorded By, Volume 1 released: 1995
I'm in Love... With That Song!
Released 1999- Alex Chilton
- Left of the Dial
- Sadly Beautiful
- Takin' a Ride
- On the Bus
- Skyway
- I Will Dare
- If Only You Were Lonely
- Here Comes a Regular
- Can't Hardly Wait
- Swinging Party
- Color Me Impressed
- Achin' to Be
- Seen Your Video
- Otto
- I.O.U.
- Rock 'n' Roll Ghost
- White & Lazy
- Androgynous
- Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
- Sixteen Blue
- Favourite Thing
- Nightclub Jitters
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by Francesqa
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by A Rocket To The Moon
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by Rascals
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by Go Set
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by Northern State
Away Away
by: Francesqayou don't have to say a word
you are lost in your own world
and are you talking to these walls
to make me seem worse
or to make yourself feel better
about it all
you will never know yourself
'cause everything you love you left burning in hell
and you're a waste of life
but i know you mean well
and im dying to make this better
from anyone else
we can try to get along but we know we cant know we cant
i hear your only voices
and i know that i am where i should be
away away, away from here
i dont feel at home in this place
and everyone who's listening can see how i've changed
but maybe if your friends can be so easily replaced
and youre looking for something better
but i wont be here
no i wont be here
and are you looking for someone better
are they all whispering in your ear
we can try to get along but we know we cant know we cant
i'll hear your lonely voices
and i know that i am where i should be
away away, away
we can try to get along but we know we cant know we cant
i hear your only voices
and i know that i am where i should be
away away, away from
i can feel the lonely ones circling around my [fingers?]
there is nothing i can say that will make you all believe me in
i know that you wont change your ways
i can feel the lonely ones circling around my [fingers?]
there is nothing i could say
that would make you all believe in me
i know that you wont change your ways
i will get away from here
we can try to get along but we know we cant know we cant
i hear your only voices
and i know that i am where i should be
away away, away from here