Mick Thomas
| Mick Thomas | |
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Thomas performing at the Ebberley Arms, Barnstaple, May 2007
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael James Thomas |
| Born |
7 February 1960 Yallourn, Victoria, Australia |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | Croxton, Liberation |
| Associated acts | Southern Aurora, Never Never Band, Acrobats, Where's Wolfgang, Trial, Weddings Parties Anything, Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing, Roving Commission |
| Website | mickthomas |
| Notable instruments | |
| Maton: "Tommy Emmanuel's guitar" | |
Michael James Thomas (born 7 February 1960, Yallourn) is an Australian singer-songwriter, producer, guitarist and hotelier. Thomas was the founding mainstay of a folk rock group, Weddings Parties Anything (1984–1998), and leader of Mick Thomas and the Sure Thing. He has also released material as a solo artist.
Michael James Thomas was born in Yallourn on 7 February 1960 and is the middle child of three. His older brother, Steve, was later a playwright. Their father, Brian Darvall Thomas (2 February 1925 – 12 September 2003), was a World War II naval veteran (23 April 1942 – 17 July 1946) and an electrical engineer with the State Electricity Commission. Brian's family were from Tasmania and his wife, Margaret, was from northern Victoria. They met in Melbourne after Brian returned from his war service.
He served in the Pacific with the Navy during the war. He was in Japan shortly after the nuclear blast on Hiroshima. He was one of those blokes who never left Australia again. He had a normal life after the war but I'm sure his dreams were full of those things.
The family moved with Brian's work, from Gippsland to Colac, Horsham and then Geelong. When Thomas was 15, in Geelong, he started playing folk music, initially as a solo artist. He was a member of Southern Aurora, and from 1978 to 1980 in Never Never Band which issued an independent single, "It Doesn't Mean Anything". Other members of Never Never Band were Brolga, Archie Cuthbertson on drums, Wendy Harrison on bass guitar, and Joe Nadoh on guitar. In 1981 (at age 21) he moved to Melbourne where he fronted a 1960s pop revival group, The Acrobats, from 1982 to 1983. He attended university and completed an arts degree, with majors in history, literature and sociology. With Cuthbertson other members of The Acrobats were David Adams on drums, Joe Colarazo, and Chris Dyson. He spent two years in the local pub rock scene first in 1983 in Where's Wolfgang with Adams and Dyson joined by Shane Day; and then in 1984 in Trial.
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