A brilliant reworking of a classic track, Mick Thomas' Roving Commission premiere their latest single from forthcoming 'Back in the Day' EP.
Ahead of a 20 date East Coast tour, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission (the latest vehicle for the main man of Melbourne’s legendary Weddings Parties Anything) have released a new version of the classic Wedding Parties Anything track ‘Houses’.
Following a great cover of The Saints ‘Shipwreck’ – recorded in tribute to The Saints’ late co-founder and frontman Chris Bailey – ‘Houses’ is a brilliant reworking of a classic track.
What you need to know
- Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission have just released a new version of ‘Houses’
- It’s a reworking of a classic Wedding Parties Anything track, of which Mick Thomas was the main man of
- The single comes ahead of their 20 date East Coast tour, which is set to kick off in November
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“I don’t know if the version that we released on Riveresque was a definitive version, but ‘Houses’ was just one of those songs that later on it got a fair bit of attention,” says Mick Thomas on ‘Houses’. “I remember Tim Rogers was a person that sung its praises a lot – it was a song that he really loved – and he’s not the only one, it gets mentioned a lot to me.”
“I mean Riveresque was the last WPA album and everyone was focussed on songs like ‘For A Short Time’ and maybe ‘Luckiest Man’, but as the years have gone by that song’s taken a special place in a lot of people’s hearts”.
Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission announce 20-date East Coast Christmas tour
Mick Thomas has been at the coalface of the Australian music scene for four decades – releasing six acclaimed albums throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s with his band Weddings Parties Anything and another ten albums during the subsequent solo career which has continued uninterrupted to this day – and while he’s well-and-truly counted amongst our country’s greatest ever songwriters (WPA’s 1992 single “Father’s Day” won the 1993 ARIA Award for Song Of The Year), over the journey he’s also proved a dab hand at making other people’s songs his own and imbuing them with his own spirit.
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