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Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced the first artists for its landmark 50th anniversary event in March 2027, with John Butler, Kate Rusby, The Milk Carton Kids and more confirmed.

Mick Thomas launches Top Paddock on Substack, drops new single “Build This” and prepares for his extensive GoSoloComeBack solo tour.

Mick Thomas drops new single “Build This” from GoComeBack ahead of his GoSoloComeBack national tour, featuring solo performances and special guest shows

Mick Thomas and The Roving Commission release their new single ‘A Mighty Ride’ and announce in-store appearances ahead of new album ‘GoComeBack’ and national tour.

On May 30 Mick Thomas will release First Step in a New Direction, the first EP of seven songs ahead of a new album later in the year.

The annual ‘Forever Young – A Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration’ is on again in May and this time upgraded to a theatre.

Delinski and Mick Thomas have brought together the cast of ‘Keep The Circle Unbroken’ to pay tribute to their friend and fellow musician Dion Hirini.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission is previewing another two new tracks from the upcoming ‘Back In the Day’.

Mick Thomas has chosen a lesser-known Cold Chisel song to cover form the new ‘Back In The Day’ EP. ‘Home and Broken Hearted’ was originally from the first Cold Chisel album in 1978.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has covered The Saints’ ‘Shipwreck’ for the new EP ‘Back In The Day’.

Midnight Oil will perform at Mundi Mundi Bash in Broken Hill in August.

Out On The Weekend has expanded with more artists joining the line-up.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission tour dates have once again been disrupted after new restrictions in Western Australia and South Australia have meant that the Victoria based band is locked out of the western states.

Melbourne singer songwriter Brooke Taylor has joined Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission replacing the other Brooke, Brooke Russell.

After many delays, the first Vika & Linda studio album of original songs. ‘The Wait’ ends a 19-year wait. It will be released on 17 September.

Memo Music Hall has revealed the line-up for its annual Bob Dylan Birthday bash, this year celebrating the 80th birthday of Bob Dylan.

After releasing ‘See You On The Other Side’, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission’s album from lockdown in 2020, Mick has announced his second album of the Covid era.

A truckload of Victorian musicians will pop up in places around the state in March for the Keep The Circle Unbroken tour.

Ross Wilson says he will no longer play Australia Day concerts. Instead, the Australian rock legend will play the special ‘Living In The land Of Oz’ concert to mark Survival Day 2021.

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks and Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission will join forces on Survival Day, January 26, for the Living In The Land of Oz concert at Melbourne’s Melbourne Pavilion on 26 January 2021.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has covered the Cold Chisel classic ‘Forever Now’ to raise funds for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

Mick Thomas will take his Roving Commission on the road … finally … for dates across Victoria in December.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission has premiere a video for ‘I Heard Sally Singing’ from the ‘See You On The Other Side’ album, recorded during Isolation.

The oldest track on Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission new ‘See You On The Other Side’ is ‘Mint Condition’.

Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission have created an album in isolation. ‘See You On The Other Side’ was mostly written and totally created in April 2020. It replaced what would have been an overseas album session for Mick that became a completely different home session record.

‘I Heard Sally Singing’ on the Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission’s ‘See You On The Other Side’ album is a lockdown song about have fast things have been changing in 2020.

When Mick Thomas gathered his Roving Commission for the “lockdown” album ‘See You On The Other Side’ he created one song from the perspective of being served retro football matches on television while the current season was put on hold.

Today’s release of Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission’s ‘See You On The Other Side’ is a byproduct of the creative surge the coronavirus has inspired in artists.

When Mick Thomas gathered up his friends via isolation for ‘See You When I’m Looking At You’ the chain song became a near nine minute epic.

Mick Thomas has used isolation to round up his Roving Commission and then commission a dozen of his musical mates to create ‘See You When I’m Looking At You’.