SUPPORTED BY DAVE JOHNSON

Doors 6pm, Music starts 7:30pm

Duke of George presents

Carus Thompson 

“London Coffee” & “Young Mother” Singles Launch

Supported by Dave Johnson

Globe-trotting troubadour Carus Thompson has toured the world alongside The John ButlerTrio, The Waifs, Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson & Pete Murray, selling over 30,000 albums along the way. He’s won his loyal fan base through 20 years of delivering passionate, energetic shows that entertain and engage, the Dwarf magazine calling him “a treasure in the Australian musical landscape”.

Due to border closures this date has been delayed many times, but Thompson is overjoyed to be finally fulfilling it. The delay has meant that the show is now is a double single launch!

Thompson will launch two singles: “London Coffee” and “Young Mother”. Both tastes from his forthcoming 8^th album, produced by none other that WA legendary musician Nathan Gaunt.

“London Coffee” is a song dedicated in loving memory to Sydney singer-songwriter Mick Hart, who tragically passed away in 2020. Hart and Thompson were good friends, touring the UK and Europe a lot together, forging a path for themselves as independent, down to earth, “can I please sleep on your couch” acoustic artists. The song’s a window into that life; it’s intensity but also the connections made:

“in and out of bars, late nights and cars, friends who gave us all we own”

Hart gave Thompson his first gig in London, and the lyrics sing of a London coffee they had together one morning on tour. It’s a tribute to Hart, but also a tribute to all the Australian independent, un-backed artists who have headed off on the road to try and get their music heard.

“Young Mother” is a questioning of our contemporary relationship with authority and a lament for kindness lost.  It was inspired by the story of Ballarat woman Zoe Buhler, who in 2020 was arrested and handcuffed at home in front of her children for ‘incitement’. She was pregnant at the time.

Come down and see of this country’s most enduring and loved, independent acoustic artists, who’s taken his music to the word and won a legion of fans in the process.

“From the songwriting to the delivery and on to the political, social and personal commentary there’s a class and polish that oozes forth” Four Stars – atthebarrier.com UK

“London Coffee” and “Young Mother” are out now.