2012 News

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Now this is is gonna be HUGE…two big nights of all kinds of music folks, celebrating another year with the Laughing Outlaw family.  Come and join us both nights if you can- you’ll not regret it, nossir!

And in other news:

Sun Dec 2nd      Mark turns a shade of blue at “Bowls with a Feeling”, an afternoon of acoustic blues at Petersham Bowlo 5 to 8pm
Tues Dec 4th       Mark is on his ownsome opening for Handasyd Williams at the good old Botany View, Newtown 7pm
Sat Dec 8th         Dead Setters play their final gig for 2012 at Rozelle Markets 11 to 3pm, front stage.

We’ll be back with a whole bunch of new stuff in 2013, in the meantime we wish all our friends & neighbours best wishes for Xmas & the new year…
”May the God of your choice bless you” (thanks Kinky)

last show for the year at the pbc:

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whoaa! this’ll be a hoot! – after 16 years or so the stars have aligned & almost the entire ‘classic period’ (read pissed ‘n’ crazed) line-up of one-time seminal Sydney alt country pioneers can be in the same place at the same time. It’s beer o’clock…

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Lordy!- it’s that time of year again when we elbow the house-band off stage & pose the eternal question- “Would Hank really have done it that way…?” Come on down and make up you own mind.

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Our show at the pbc with Bill Chambers on July 24th was a real highlight, & it was a real privilege to spend most of the evening as backing band for an artist who has truly learned from listening to the elders & is now one in his own right.

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We’re well chuffed to announce that we  are finalists in three categories of the 2012 Music Oz Awards:

Acoustic / singer-songwriter
Roots / Blues
Country

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Friday March 9th we join The Delivery, Roland Kay-Smith, Caitlin Harnett, Handasyd Williams, Emma Swift, James Thompson, Simon Li in celebrating the birthday & songs of the late great Townes Van Zandt. Guesting with the Dead Setters will be man of steel, Mr Jason Walker.

This is gonna be somethin’

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Sunday 26th February – it’s A Family Affair! – Half a Cow Records presents SMUDGE, MARK LUCAS & THE DEAD SETTERS, THE STICKER CLUB, AGNES KAIN & THE HANDLEBARS at the pbc from 2 to 7pm $6 on the door.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR DEAD SET FRIENDS & FAMILY!!

Our New Year’s Resolutions include  drinking less, eating more healthily , mostly, making more music – the main one being to get of town & broaden our horizons. In the meantime we’re back at the pbc on Sunday Jan 22nd for a very special command performance for Mark’s sister who’s over from the UK for the first time in a decade or so. She’s never seen him play live so Mark’ll be digging waaay back into the back catalogue through some…dare we say it…30 years of songwriting….

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