Mark Lucas & the Dead Setters

Urban Country / Roots

Singer-songwriter, Mark Lucas doesn’t fit neatly into the mould of contemporary Australian country/roots artists. Born & raised in rural England & now resident of inner-western Sydney, Mark spins tales rooted in urban experience but informed by a land as untamed and contrasting as the characters who inhabit it.

A sense of place

Australian roots music – it’s a sense of place. In the world reflected in the dead setters new album you’ll encounter ghosts of the past & yearning spirits of the present, making themselves known in a variety of familiar locales, including a faded milk bar in inner-western Sydney (Shopping Town), wasted youth drag racing on Sydney’s Great Western Highway (Whitewall Tyres), and a lonely man obsessed with a long gone Australian silent movie star (Until She’s Mine – Lotte Lyell’s Blues), together with a motley cast of misfits & dreamers who could fit in just about anywhere there’s people & stories to tell.

Putting on the Dog

Mark’s fourth album with long-time collaborators, the dead setters, sees a return to the Laughing Outlaw family (his first two solo albums were label releases in the 1999 & 2001), bringing with him a band with a reputation for delivering dynamic live shows drawing from a broad and earthy palette, but never straying far from the narrative tradition & some pithy observations on life & humanity. Not unlike contemporaries such as label-mates Perry Keyes & Jason Walker, they’ve discovered that’s there’s a rich vein of life in their home-town.

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Gig Guide

Sun June 16
Menai Community Markets
34-40 Alison Crescent Menai
Time: 10 to 2pm FREE

Thurs June 13
Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL
Canterbury Country
8pm FREE

Fri June 9
Marrickville Bowling Club
Fundraiser for Rhonda
8pm $10

Sun Jun 2
Fifty Million Beers + Dead Setters
Petersham Bowling Club
4.30pm $10 

Sun May 26
Petersham Bowling Club
Songs of Leonard Cohen with Sylvie Simmons & more
Mark solo
6 to 9pm

Fri May 24
SHOW - a tribute to the Possum
the late great George Jones
Petersham Bowing Club
Mark with house band
with 50 Million Beers & more guests
8 to 11pm $10

Wed Apr 24
Club Central Menai
Songwriters In the Round
with Luke O'Shea & Kristy Cox
7.30pm FREE

Thursdays in April
Balcony Sessions
Ravesis Hotel, Bondi Beach
8.30pm (Dead Setters on stage 10.30pm)
FREE

Sat Mar 30
Rozelle Markets (rear stage)
Darling St., Rozelle
10.30 to 2.30pm

Sun Mar 17
Postcards from the Heartworn Highway
- a celebration of Texas songwriting
with Bambino Koresh, Tom Morgan & Chuck Stokes
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 4 to 8pm  $10

Sun Mar 17
Menai Community Markets
34-40 Alison Crescent Menai
Time: 10 to 2pm FREE

Sun Mar 3
James Thomson
+ Steph Miller + Mark Lucas
Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Newcastle
times tbc

Fri Mar 1
James Thomson + Mark Lucas
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 8 to 11pm  $10
FREE   

Thurs Feb 28
The Balcony Sessions
Ravesis Hotel, Bondi 
8.45 to 10.05 pm
FREE 

Sun Feb 24
Fifty Million Beers + Dead Setters
Petersham Bowling Club
6pm $10

Sat Feb 23
Blaze Foley -The Duct Tape Messiah
Movie Debut
+ Jason Walker, Emma Swift, James Thosmson & Mark Lucas
Petersham Bowling Club
7.30 - 11.30 $15

Sun Feb 10
Union Hotel
KIng St., Newtown
4pm
FREE

Mon Feb 4
Mark solo
Empite Hotel
Annandale
8pm FREE

Sat Feb 2 2013
Colonial Hotel
Werrington
8pm
CANCELLED

Sun Dec 16
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE   

Sat Dec 8
Rozelle Markets (front stage)
Darling St., Rozelle
11.00 to 3.00pm 

Wed Dec 4
Botany View Hotel
(Mark solo with Handasyd Williams)
8pm
FREE

Sun Dec 1
Notes, Newtown
Laughing Outlaw Records Class of 2012
7pm
$15

Sun Nov 18
Glebe Street Fair
Time: 4.15 

Thurs Nov 15
The Balcony Sessions
Ravesis Hotel, Bondi 
10pm
FREE 

Sun Nov 11
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE   

Fri Nov 2  The Parwills Re-union
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 8 to 11pm 
FREE  

Wed Oct 24
Old Manly Boatshed
10.30pm
FREE 

Sun Oct 21
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE   

Sun Oct 7
Mark solo
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE    

Sun Sept 30
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE  

Sat Sept 15
Rozelle Markets (rear stage)
Darling St., Rozelle
10.30 to 2.30pm

Thurs Sept 13
Hank & Patsy Birthday Bash
Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL
8pm FREE

Fri Aug 24
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 8 to 11pm 
FREE 

Thurs Aug 9
The Balcony Sessions
Ravesis Hotel, Bondi 
9pm
FREE

Wed Aug 8
Old Manly Boatshed
10.30pm
FREE

Sat July 28
Live & Local
Petersham Bowling Club Annual Fundraiser & Membership Drive
Time: 3pm to late 
FREE  

Sun July 22
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 5 to 8pm 
FREE 

Thurs June 28
Green Room
Erskineville
8pm
FREE

Sun June 24
with Bill Chambers
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm 
FREE 

Sat June 9
Rozelle Markets
Darling St., Rozelle
11 to 3pm

Sun May 27
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm 
FREE

Thurs May 3rd
Clovelly Hotel
Time: 9.40 - 10pm
FREE

Sun Apr 22
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm
FREE 

Sat April 1
Roots & Branches
Royal Oak Hotel, Parramatta
5 to 8pm

Sun Mar 25
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm
FREE

Fri Mar 9
Nothin' - The Townes van Zandt Tribute
plus Roland K Smith, The Delivery, Emma Swift & more
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm
 $10

Sun Jan 22
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm
FREE

Sun Dec 18
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 to 9pm
special guest Cletis Carr
Cost: $5

Sun Dec 4
Petersham Bowling Club
+ Laughing Outlaw Records Xmas Party
times tba

Sat Nov 19 & Sun Nov 20
Canberra Country Music Festival

Sat Oct 22
Ryde Ex Services Club
Radio @ RRR Benefit
8pm

Sun Oct 30
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 t0 9pm
Cost: FREE
Mark, Jake & John unplugged

Sun Oct 16
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 - 9pm
Cost: FREE

Sun Sept 11
Petersham Bowling Club
Time: 6 - 9pm
FREE

Fri 9 September
Mark & Jake duo
Harmonie German Club, Narrabundah, ACT
Time: 8pm
FREE

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