The Re-mains have sealed negotiations with Mick Thomas’ people and as a result we’ll be undertaking a short tour with The Sure Thing. Commencing at the Byron Bay Bowlo on May 4, we will undertake to give Byron Bay a lesson in what constitutes excitement, drowning out the various noseflute acts pontificating at various shady dives with a goodly dose of Country R’n'R, featuring of course the smash hit, ‘Bye Bye Byron Bay’. We will then head north to BrisVegas, where we’ll support Mr Thomas’ band for two dates, the 5th and 6th, at the Healer, which we are assured is a most suitably countrified style of venue.

For those unfamiliar with Mr Thomas, he was the voice of famed and far-flung folk-rock kings Weddings Parties Anything, who stormed the world with such mighty tunes as “A tale they won’t believe’ , ‘Away Away’, ‘The Scorn of the Women’ and used to work damn hard, providing inspiration for the 3 hour-long Re-mains shows in which the Sweat was first concieved.

The Re-mains have finalised the details for the up and coming recording sessions in Currabubula. You better be ready to buy it. Hot on the heals of production should be the actual disc. In advance, we wish to thank you for supporting country rock and roll.

Following a massive onslaught of punters to the enormously successful Durga Babies/Re-mains/ Acid Pixies show at the Bush factory, Nimbin, the Re-mains are at their customary high fever-pitch, poised for action with a slew of new songs ready to be sprung on its expectant audience, at the Rainbow Cafe, Nimbin on an unspecified date in the next coupla weeks.
They include Shaun’s instrumental, Let’s All Get Along, Mick’s songs Thank You Mr Ellis, The Dirt Farmer’s Gavotte and the Ivin/Daley tune, I Want Every Make of Holden Ever Made.
Meanwhile, we’re officially into Angelwood studios with Flash Sheedy in Currabbubula on Feb 24 to record the second batch of tunes, to be titled THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING COUNTRY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL. That should see up to 15 songs impressed on two inch 16 track with Flash’s expert production, with maybe 12 included on the final product. Meanwhile, ‘Keepin’ It Steel’, which sold well at Tamworth, is still bubbling along and compliments have been pouring in thick and fast for the brilliant artwork of Adam B. Hell, our Bureau of Art Direction Generalissimo.
We’re still waiting to hear if we’ve made it into the Blues Festival. If we do, look out for a country r’n'r avalanche.