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Friday, February 02, 2007
Dead Setters . . .
Below is Slim Buckle's (Mark Lucas) latest e-letter. I've heard rumours the Dead Setters were getting some really good crowds and playing some very good tunes at Tamworth (what have I been saying for years!!). Sad to hear Glenn (Skarrat) is departing the band. He's been a major linch-pin in Mark's (and all the asssociated bands over the years) work for as long as I can remember and his marvelous mandolin and guitar riffs will be greatly missed. Good luck to whatever you do in the future, Glenn, and thanks for all the tasty fish!!
Blog summary: Because I've added quite a few new items this week, it might pay to remind people a good long scroll down will find things like Limpin' Jimmy and the Swingin' Kitten's Gig Guide and Newsletter, the Cartwrights' gig guide, Audrey Auld-Mezera's newsletter and the Greencards' announcement of their upcoming album, Viridian. Edit: And the February gigs for Rob Luckey and the Lucky Bastards are directly under the Dead Setters.
And, talking of Tamworth, here's a link to all the pics of various gigs during the 2007 festival.
Now, over to Slim:
Greetings all
And a Happy New Year to those we haven’t reached in person.
2007 has got off to a cracking start in the Dead Setters' camp with a very successful string of dates at Maguire’s during the Tamworth Fest as well as various other appearances around the town. As a largely non-touring act we really look forward to these festival events as they give the band a chance to really get our teeth into the material and stretch a little. Sadly these were Glenn’s last dates with the Dead Setters, at least for the foreseeable future, as he is moving on to embrace new challenges. After working with him for nearly 14 years from the early Parwills days and through 4 albums, he will leave a sizeable gap and will be a hard act to follow, however we are pleased to say that we are making progress with this and have Bruce Reid (guitar/lap steel- The Catholics) with us at the next Stag date.
We are well into pre-production for the new album and have paired 25 songs down to 16 at last count- looking forward to getting the project in the can by mid-year. Watch this space. We are also looking at having a live recording available shortly.
In other news Mark has been selected as a finalist in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition, in the er…Americana category (the same award that our good mate Karl Broadie took out the previous year… you see there was a Scotsman & an Englishman and they both migrated to Australia to become Americana artists…all we need now are the Irish & Welsh contingent!). Many of you will know that Mark tends to be a little cynical about these things (given the highly subjective nature of judging and so on), but Australian country music being obsessed with talent quests and awards and with the lovely Bec Urquhart, who looks after our publicity etc, being wiser in these things, persuading him to be in it to win it- he gave it a go and here we are- actually he’s pretty chuffed so there you go.
You can vote in the ‘Peoples Voice’ category at http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/pvwelcome2006.htm
The song is “For Everything Else I Got You” (from the White man Soul cd), which he wrote for his lovely wife Suzy, so that’s pretty cool too (& he didn’t really write to get out of strife either- truth).
Current confirmed dates are:
Royal Hotel, Leichhardt Sun Feb 25th 5 -5.45pm (Mark solo)
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat Mar 3rd 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat Apr 7th 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat May 12th 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat June 23rd 9.30 to 1.30am
See you ‘round the traps.
Your pal
Slim
The Bastards:
Thu 1 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Thu 8 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 11 Feb 2007 Bondi Icebergs, Bondi - 4 pm
Thu 15 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 18 Feb 2007 Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe 4 pm
Thu 22 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 25 Feb 2007 Riverview Hotel, Balmain - 6 pm
Blog summary: Because I've added quite a few new items this week, it might pay to remind people a good long scroll down will find things like Limpin' Jimmy and the Swingin' Kitten's Gig Guide and Newsletter, the Cartwrights' gig guide, Audrey Auld-Mezera's newsletter and the Greencards' announcement of their upcoming album, Viridian. Edit: And the February gigs for Rob Luckey and the Lucky Bastards are directly under the Dead Setters.
And, talking of Tamworth, here's a link to all the pics of various gigs during the 2007 festival.
Now, over to Slim:
Greetings all
And a Happy New Year to those we haven’t reached in person.
2007 has got off to a cracking start in the Dead Setters' camp with a very successful string of dates at Maguire’s during the Tamworth Fest as well as various other appearances around the town. As a largely non-touring act we really look forward to these festival events as they give the band a chance to really get our teeth into the material and stretch a little. Sadly these were Glenn’s last dates with the Dead Setters, at least for the foreseeable future, as he is moving on to embrace new challenges. After working with him for nearly 14 years from the early Parwills days and through 4 albums, he will leave a sizeable gap and will be a hard act to follow, however we are pleased to say that we are making progress with this and have Bruce Reid (guitar/lap steel- The Catholics) with us at the next Stag date.
We are well into pre-production for the new album and have paired 25 songs down to 16 at last count- looking forward to getting the project in the can by mid-year. Watch this space. We are also looking at having a live recording available shortly.
In other news Mark has been selected as a finalist in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition, in the er…Americana category (the same award that our good mate Karl Broadie took out the previous year… you see there was a Scotsman & an Englishman and they both migrated to Australia to become Americana artists…all we need now are the Irish & Welsh contingent!). Many of you will know that Mark tends to be a little cynical about these things (given the highly subjective nature of judging and so on), but Australian country music being obsessed with talent quests and awards and with the lovely Bec Urquhart, who looks after our publicity etc, being wiser in these things, persuading him to be in it to win it- he gave it a go and here we are- actually he’s pretty chuffed so there you go.
You can vote in the ‘Peoples Voice’ category at http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/pvwelcome2006.htm
The song is “For Everything Else I Got You” (from the White man Soul cd), which he wrote for his lovely wife Suzy, so that’s pretty cool too (& he didn’t really write to get out of strife either- truth).
Current confirmed dates are:
Royal Hotel, Leichhardt Sun Feb 25th 5 -5.45pm (Mark solo)
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat Mar 3rd 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat Apr 7th 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat May 12th 9.30 to 1.30am
Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt Sat June 23rd 9.30 to 1.30am
See you ‘round the traps.
Your pal
Slim
The Bastards:
Thu 1 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Thu 8 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 11 Feb 2007 Bondi Icebergs, Bondi - 4 pm
Thu 15 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 18 Feb 2007 Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Tempe 4 pm
Thu 22 Feb 2007 Royal Hotel, Leichhardt - 8 pm
Sun 25 Feb 2007 Riverview Hotel, Balmain - 6 pm
