        
MICK THOMAS & THE SURE THING ENQUIRIES & BOOKINGS: The Office Of Sure Things WPA MANAGEMENT: Danny Rogers @ Lunatic Entertainment & Rockin Roll Circus WPA NEWS July, 2008: LAST WPA FOOTY SCARVES ON SALE NOW... There are a limited number of WPA Tour Footy Scarves left and they are available online now by using the links below. There will be WPA 2008 Tour Tshirts and assorted merchandise on sale on this page very soon. DVDs and Corner Hotel live bootlegs are available below as well as a handful of original Donkey Serenade and Garage Sale CDs (see below). 
THE WEDDINGS, PARTIES, ANYTHING DVD IS HERE!!
If you would like to order one online, you can pick one up through PayPal by clicking on the 'add to cart' link below and we will have it hurtling to your door within a couple of days. It features live footage from last year's WPA show at the Queenscliff Festival, a short film 'Roaring Days' plus the complete collection of WPA film-clips with bad haircuts and optional commentary from Mick and Wally. The WPA DVD is also available through Madman, in the shops and at all of Mick's upcoming live shows. Madman reliably inform us that their DVDs are able to be played in all zones but this has turned out to be all zone NTSC - not PAL which a lot of North America seems to be. If you have bought one and you can't get it to work, please contact us and we will sort it out for you. Thanks. 
WPA DVD CLIPS UP ON YOU TUBE
There are four clips up on YouTube of WPA live at the 2007 Queenscliff Festival which feature in the brand new DVD 'A Long Time Between Drinks', out now through Madman. Check them out here... 
WPA RARITIES STILL AVAILABLE: 
DONKEY SERENADE
We still have copies of Donkey Serenade available on CD and cassette (Yes!! Cassette!! - for all you folk still driving around in your Datsuns who haven't gotten around to upgrading the original tape deck..) DONKEY SERENADE was released independantly in 1996 and has 9 tracks: Where The Highway Meets The Cane / In A City, Girl / Grey Skies (over Collingwood) / Rosy & Grey / Wide Open Road / Nothing Left To Say / A Long Time Between Drinks / If You Gotta Go / In Your Memory CDs are $15 (plus $5 postage & handling) Cassettes are $5 (plus $5 postage & handling) These are available by sending a cheque or money order to: Michael Thomas, PO Box 1238, Nth Fitzroy, 3068, Victoria, AUSTRALIA and CDs are available online through Paypal.. 
GARAGE SALE
(DISC 2 THAT CAME WITH RIVERESQUE) GARAGE SALE was a bonus CD that basically covered all the songs that were recorded for Riveresque that didn't make it onto the album. It was recorded in 1997 and it has 9 big tracks: Rolling On Home / When Your Travelling Days Are Done / Reason To Believe / Don't Need Much (alt. version) / Cheap Brandy & Foundation / Garage Sale / Sweet Thames Flow Softly / September's Gone / From The Heart CDs are $15 (plus $5 postage & handling) These are available by sending a cheque or money order to: Michael Thomas, PO Box 1238, North Fitzroy, 3068, VIC, AUSTRALIA or online through Paypal... 
CORNER HOTEL LIVE BOOTLEG
BOUGHT TO YOU BY NEW FOUND FREQUENCY WPA's triumphant return to the Australian music limelight will come to a close with an unprecedented series of shows at The Corner Hotel in Richmond. History will be made with our four night residence and New Found Frequency will be there too. That's right, WPA is pleased to announce that they will be creating an exclusive *Artist Controlled Bootleg of the April 16th show. For those of you attending on the 16th, NFF will record and instantly deliver a recorded 'bootleg' CD immediately after the show. Those of you going to another night, they'll be there too, selling this limited edition CD all nights of our unprecedented stand at The Corner. This will be a single disc comprising of 70+ minutes of audio (encore may be omitted). AWAY AWAY / WPA & The Sure Thing at Queenscliff, September, 2006: Rehearsing with the Weddings again somehow seemed to bring a lot of stuff into focus for me. It made me incredibly glad that I am in a position to get around and create a whole new repetoire while at the same time being glad for all the stuff gone before. The warm-up show on Wednesday at the Northcote Social Club was a hell of a show and it was good to see so many people made the trip from interstate. It turned into a fine night and it was great to have the mighty Re-mains put in a rocking set to open the show. All of Eva Collado's fine custom poster prints were sold and I'd advise anyone interested in this sort of custom art to get in early at the Christmas shows as the designs she has done for the Sure Things are equally as stunning. Thank you also to all the people on the guest list who donated money to the ASRC on the night. $600 was raised! CLICK HERE to read the thank you letter from the ASRC. Queenscliff was a huge weekend and it was really important that it started well with a fine Sure Things show on the Friday night. It was paradoxical that in some ways the Sure Things were probably a lot more comfortable as an on-stage unit than the Weddings in that we have been touring pretty hard the past month. The Weddings hit the stage in front of a packed main tent on the Saturday night and it was all clear sailing and funny to note just how much a film crew swarming all over the stage (ten cameras!) can up the excitement level for the performers. The main idea of filming is to give the band something to put with all their collected videos for a WPA DVD which is shaping up for a 2007 release. After listening back to the rough mixes I'd have to say we picked a cracker of a show to film/record. We are wrapt to announce Madman Pictures have taken on the project so stay posted for DVD developments. 
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Cheers, Mick T, on behalf of the Weds For all information regarding anything WPA, please email us at The Office Of Sure Things /WPA |