        
MICK THOMAS & THE SURE THING ENQUIRIES & BOOKINGS: The Office Of Sure Things HIGH-RES PROMO PHOTOS   > 
If you have any problems with these promo photos, contact The Office Of Sure Things MICK THOMAS BIO At a glance the schedule for twelve months of Mick's professional life could seem an unholy mess. There may be a season of The Tank (the theatre show he wrote with his brother), into a solo tour of Europe or North America, studio production work, soundtrack work, not to mention his obligations to Croxton Records or gigs with his fine band The Sure Thing. Hell - Weddings, Parties, Anything might even do the odd show or three these days. But somehow it all seems to come together for the very reason that at the centre of it all lies a simple regard for music - for the performing of it, the nurturing of its potential and the simple human virtues of playing it alongside other equally enthusiastic people. It's the simple regard for the song in its pure form and the genuine feeling of being grateful for the opportunity such a varied schedule affords in terms of the potential for experimentation that fuels the whole process. Receiving the Artist of the Year Award at the 2008 Port Fairy Folk Festival was certainly a memorable moment in Mick's recent history - but maybe it was hearing Memphis luminary Jim Dickinson release a version of a song Mick penned for the Weddings all those years ago that was the sweetest thing (No No Never - from the 2007 release Killers From Space), or perhaps it was the plain joy at getting back out on the road with Weddings, Parties, Anything and selling out a whole load of rooms to people who just wanted to hear all those songs, ten years after the band's demise. But these are by no means the only accolades in a career that seems to be intent on taking its own quietly anarchic course. Stay tuned for details as Mick Thomas and a small group of dedicated accomplices plot the next installment in an intruiging cultural journey that no GPS could hope to follow. RELEASES: Under Starters Orders - solo live - Croxton Records 1998 Dead Set Certainty - Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing - Croxton Records 1999 Dust On My Shoes - Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing - Croxton Records 2000 The Horse's Prayer (double album) - Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing - Croxton Records 2002 Something To Fight For (EP) - Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing - Croxton Records 2003 Anythings, Sure Things, Other Things - solo acoustic retrospective for Liberation Records 2005 Paddock Buddy - Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing - Liberation Records 2006 PRODUCTION: The Gadflys - First EP The Waifs (w/ Jen Anderson) Ruby Hunter - Feeling Good (w/ Craig Pilkington) The Vandas - First EP The Drowners - Far From Home (w/ Craig Pilkington) Mrs Wainright - Clickety Clack (w/ Craig Pilkington) The Go Set - Journey For A Nation (w/ Craig Pilkington) THEATRE: Over In The West The Tank (musical score in conjunction with brother Steve for Salamanca Arts Tasmania) Run Rabbit Run (musical score for Company B Belvoir St Sydney) Dust On My Shoes (currently in developement stage for Salamanca Arts Tasmania) SOUNDTRACKS: Left Luggage - 1996 SBS Short Film (w/ Jen Anderson) Staying Out - 2001 ABC Feature Length Documentary Albert's Chook Tractor - 2002 SBS Short Film The End Of The Game - 2003 ABC Feature Length Documentary Shacks - 2005 ABC Documentary Series The Real Water Rats - 2006 SBS Documentary Series Alive And Kicking - 2008 SBS Documentary Series Dust On My Shoes - Roar Film's major online broadband documentary for the ABC (click link below) CROXTON RECORDS - go to www.croxtonrecords.com for a full discography and information on forty plus releases since 1998. 
"Just when you imagine he can't have any more fabulous songs in him, he brings out an album like this... he is Australia's last true balladeer..." DJ, Forte Magazine, Geelong (talking about Dust On My Shoes)
" Mick Thomas, lyrically and musically, blows my mind. I inherited some testicular forte from Mick Thomas -
"Dust On My Shoes makes you more than glad Mick Thomas has bothered to clock up the miles on his
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