Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission To Head To Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios In Auckland In October To Work With Award-Winning Producer Steve Schram But First, A Grand Final Eve Eve Super Show…
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.
The band has also announced one final show before they head to Auckland, a GRAND FINAL EVE EVE SUPER SHOW, set for Grand Final Eve, Thursday September 26, at the Brunswick Ballroom, and featuring special guests Hanna and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits and MC Rusty Bertha of Scared Weird Little Guy. Tickets for the show are available now.
In an email announcing the Grand Final show and the recording plans to the band’s fans, Thomas explained the decision to cross the ditch: “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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