Mick Thomas

Mick Thomas performing at the Ebberley Arms, Barnstaple, UK on 11 May 2007
Background information
Birth name Michael James Thomas
Born 7 February 1960
Origin Yallourn, Victoria, Australia
Occupations musician, songwriter, guitarist, singer
Labels Croxton
Liberation Music
Associated acts Weddings Parties Anything
Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing

Michael James Thomas is an Australian singer-songwriter.

Mick Thomas was born in Yallourn, 7 February 1960, the middle child of three. His father, Brian Thomas, was an electrical engineer with the old State Electricity Commission. His father's family were from Tasmania and his mother, Margaret, was from northern Victoria. They met in Melbourne after Thomas's father returned from World War II.

"He served in the Pacific with the Navy during the war. He was in Japan shortly after the nuclear blast on Hiroshima. He was one of those blokes who never left Australia again. He had a normal life after the war but I'm sure his dreams were full of those things." - Thomas[1]

The family moved with the work, from Gippsland to Colac, Horsham and then Geelong, Australia. When he was 15, in Geelong, Mick Thomas started playing folk music. In 1981 (at age 21) he moved to Melbourne[1] and after a couple of years in Melbourne's pub rock scene with bands like Where's Wolfgang and Trial, Thomas formed the first version of Weddings Parties Anything in late 1984.

Main article: Weddings Parties Anything

The band released seven albums between 1987 and 1996, with most of the material written by Thomas. The band also won two ARIA awards and toured relentlessly - in some years spending more time on the road than not - and got quite big in Canada and parts of America. They had a couple of minor hits, "Father's Day" and "Monday's Experts", but what they really achieved was to mix bush ballads with rock'n'roll; a band who could perform a deep, highly literate song based on a poem by Bertholt Brecht to beery, Blundstoned punters in Collingwood without looking, or sounding, silly.

Following the demise of Weddings Parties Anything in 1999, Mick embarked on a solo career and eventually settled with a new band 'The Sure Thing' which has been through many different lineups. About this time he also started the now defunct label Croxton Records with friend Nick Corr.

Mick has written or co-written plays Over in the West and The Tank (with his older brother Steve) and is an accomplished music producer and engineer. He has been a mentor for many in the Australian music scene, especially in Melbourne. He is often rated with Paul Kelly as one of Australia's greatest songwriters.

Contents

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Wedding Parties Anything

Main article: Weddings Parties Anything#Discography

Solo

  • Under Starter's Orders: Live at the Continental - Croxton (CROXT001) (1998)
  • The Tank - Croxton (CROXT020) (14 June 2004)
  • Anythings, Sure Things, Other Things - Liberation Blue (BLUE0722) (13 August 2004)

Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing

  • Dead Set Certainty: Twelve Songs That Wouldn't Go Away... - Croxton (CROXT004) (1999)
  • Dust on My Shoes - Croxton (CROXT007) (2000)
  • Live Dust (2001)
  • The Horse's Prayer (2002)
  • Paddock Buddy - Liberation Music (LIBCD8220.2) (12 March 2007)
  • Spin! Spin! Spin! - Liberation Music (LMCD0047) (17 April 2009)

Mick Thomas and Dan Warner

  • Five Bells (1999)

Mick Thomas and Michael Barclay

  • A Head Full of Road Kill - Croxton Records (2010)

EPs [link]

Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing

  • Something to Fight For - Croxton (CROXT018) (2003)

External links [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ a b Johnston, Chris (2006-12-18). "Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing". The Age. https://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/mick-thomas-and-the-sure-thing/2006/12/18/1166290460329.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1. Retrieved 2008-10-24. 
Weddings Parties Anything
  • Mick Thomas
  • Paul Thomas
  • Mark Wallace
  • Michael Barclay
  • Stephen O'Prey
  • Jen Anderson
  • Dave Adams
  • Richard Burgman
  • Paul Clarke
  • Janine Hall
  • Wendy Joseph
  • Peter Lawler
  • Marcus Schintler
  • Dave Steel
Studio albums
EPs
Singles
  • "Sergeant Small"
  • "Away, Away"
  • "Hungry Years"/"The Swans Return"
  • "Shotgun Wedding"
  • "Say The Word"
  • "Tilting At Windmills"
  • "Darlin' Please"
  • "Streets of Forbes"
  • "The Wind And The Rain"
  • "Reckless"
  • "Father's Day"
  • "Monday's Experts"
  • "Step In, Step Out"
  • "The Rain In My Heart"
  • "Island Of Humour"
  • "Luckiest Man"
  • "Don't Need Much"
  • "Anthem"
Live albums
DVDs
  • Live in Richmond/Christmas at the Central Club
  • Into Time On
  • Siren
  • Long Time Between Drinks

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CKLM-FM

CKLM-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 106.1 FM in Lloydminster, Alberta. The station airs an active rock format branded as 106.1 The Goat.

Licensed in 2000 to Peace River Broadcasting, the station was acquired by Stewart and Anita Dent (shareholders of Peace River Broadcasting) in 2001 through their numbered holding company 912038 Alberta Ltd.

The station launched on May 18, 2001. The station added a rebroadcaster at Bonnyville on August 22, 2003, which subsequently became an independent station, CFNA, on September 28, 2007. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the stations' sale to the Vista Broadcast Group on November 21, 2008.

References

External links

  • 106.1 The Goat
  • CKLM-FM history - Canadian Communications Foundation
  • Query the REC's Canadian station database for CKLM-FM

    • Coordinates: 53°11′35″N 110°20′58″W / 53.19306°N 110.34944°W / 53.19306; -110.34944

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    Goat (disambiguation)

    A goat is a mammal.

    Goat or goats may also refer to:

    Animals

  • Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, Species from which the domestic goat was bred
  • Capra (genus) or wild goats, a genus of species including goats, ibexes, and others
  • Mountain goats, Oreamnos americanus, a North American animal commonly but not expertly considered to be a wild goat

    • Entertainment

    Literature

  • Goats (novel), a 2000 novel by Mark Jude Poirier
  • Goats (webcomic), by Jonathan Rosenberg
  • The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, a 2002 play by Edward Albee

    • Radio

  • 106.1 The Goat, branding of the radio station CKLM-FM

    • Music

  • Goat (band), a Swedish alternative band with Christian Johansson on lead vocals
  • Goat (musician), stage name for American singer Andy Rosen
  • The Goats, a hip hop group
  • Goat (album), a 1991 album by The Jesus Lizard
  • G.O.A.T. (Greatest of All Time), an album by LL Cool J
  • The Goat (album), a 2011 album by Inkubus Sukkubus

    • Film

  • The Goat (1917 film), starring Oliver Hardy
  • The Goat (1918 film), starring Fred Stone
  • The Goat (1921 film), starring Buster Keaton
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    The Goat (How I Met Your Mother)

    "The Goat" is the 17th episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 61st overall. It originally aired on April 28, 2008.

    Plot

    The episode begins with the aftermath of the events of "Sandcastles in the Sand": Barney and Robin are in bed together after having sex and she proposes to pretend it never happened. Barney agrees but feels quite awkward and uncomfortable around Ted at MacLaren's later in the day. Hoping to find an excuse for his and Robin's actions, Barney seeks out Marshall to help him find a loophole in the Bro Code, a book listing the rules and philosophies of Barney's life as a "bro". Allegedly written by Barnabas Stinson in the 18th century when Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were too busy to write it themselves, the Bro Code proves to be a very tight document that Ted has followed flawlessly and Barney fails in finding a loophole. When Marshall's nervous behavior reveals to Robin that Barney told him, she tells him that Ted is never finding out. That night, when Barney picks up Ted in a limo, he attempts to give Ted an ultimate 30th birthday by flying him to Vegas, which includes staying at the Bellagio, steaks at Boa, and a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and a grizzly bear. Ted reveals that he knows Barney and Robin slept together, for Robin told him right after she warned Marshall. Ted, at first, seems calm, and Barney is relieved, but Ted screams at him, angrily declares they're no longer friends, and hails a cab to take him home. Barney then sadly sits in the limo alone all night.

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    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

    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
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