Mark Lucas & the Dead Setters

"This guy was born to write songs that you'd want to hear on your car stereo as you hit the road."
Brent Mckean, Revolver

“A seamless mix of country & folk from Down Under…encapsulates perfectly the appeal of the true singer-songwriter.” ****
MM, Maverick Magazine (UK)
“...the Sydney troubadour himself…Terrific songwriting and musicianship…Sydney’s answer to Townes van Zandt and Robert Earl Keen.”
Bryen Willems, Radio 2RRR
“a near perfect musical setting for these distinctly Australian tales of restless souls, ghosts of the past, desert vistas and suburban angst.”
Kim Cheshire in Country Update Magazine 

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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Gigs

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

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
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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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