Mick Thomas

I sprained my wrist, shaking my fist at the evangelist….

So runs the first line of the second verse of Peter Lillie’s Adventures in Pain in Paradise. I sang this song at The Caravan Music Club a few weeks back as part of the Peter Lillie After Dinner Moose tribute show. It’s a simple little song but like so much of his work it has some odd twists and some endearing and intriguing elements. It was fascinating on the night to hear so much of his repertoire put together in the one place as I’ve grown used to hearing these songs as one off covers – The Clip Clop Club (or Daddy Cool) doing The Birth of the Ute, The Models ripping through Holiday House, Paul Madigan doing The Road to Gundagai. But here they all were and it was a pleasure to hear them all together and to consider that as a body of work it was an inspired creative outpouring.

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