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Weddings, Parties, Anything's Mick Thomas on his favourite storytelling songs

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Mick Thomas is a well known figure in the Australian music scene, best known as chief songwriter of pub-rock icons Weddings, Parties, Anything. His current band The Roving Commission are set to head out on tour across Australia. 

He spoke with Andrea Ho about how songs that tell a great story inspired his own songwriting. 

Here is a list of the songs he shared: 

Turn, Turn, Turn by The Birds 

Moody River by Pat Boone 

Working on a Coal Mine by Devo

Jamaica Farewell by Harry Belafonte

Sixteen Tonnes by Tenesse Earnie Ford

Louie Louie by The Kinks

Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donegan

Wayfaring Stranger by Neko Case

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Offa Rex

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