Mick Young - vocals, guitar, anxiety
Mijo Biscan - elec and acoustic guitar, vocals, beards
Atticus Bastow - drums, health food
Peter Maverick - bass, wisdom
Sounds Like
'Treasure' mini album available now!
Featuring 'A Bird Made of Ice' and 'Cornish Green'
$18 including postage within Australia
Distributed in Australia by FUSE music group
& www.bigozmusic.com.au
Now available online via itunes
and in the US via
www.cdbaby.com/cd/ywerther
"A fantastic bluesy ballad. Reminds me of fellow Vic blues troubadour Matt Walker. Beautifully produced with subtle layers highlighting the simple guitar-vocal arrangement. rating 4/5"
DAN BUHAGIAR
Senior Music Program Producer - Triple J
(on Young Werther's 'Cornish Green')
6th Feb 2008
"This one just stopped me in my tracks. It paints some beautiful scenery and is dripping with atmosphere. A lilting and softly sentimental voice tells a tale you'll want to hear again and again.Check out "Bird Made of Ice" too! rating: 5/5"
CAZ TRAN, Triple J
(on "Cornish Green")
01 Feb, 2008
"...richly detailed pictures of people in nature and on their own. 'Come on back here' and 'Cornish Green' show the tug between mind and land wonderfully, and the bell-voiced guitar backs it well."
INPRESS MAGAZINE
9th Jan, 2008
also available:
The Restless - Self titled Album - (2004 Cavalier/Shock)
Clayfire, Burn Your Day - EP -The Restless (2001 Cavalier/Shock)
You can find these albums from my previous project, The Restless via: http://www.cavaliermusic.com/therestless/index.htm
Young Werther is me making music. I'm currently working on an album with producer Nick Huggins (Kid Sam, Whitley) and band members Atticus Bastow and Peter Maveric. Mijo Biscan left me for some bird in Germany so I'm looking for a guitarist/vocalist and a keys/vocalist. Anyone?
The album will be released in 2010 and if it isn't a hit I might have to get a job. So come on people!
I love music so much it hurts and I wish I could eat it or better, BE it. I sometimes think I'm good at it and that it's worthwhile and other times think I should be doing something that's easier and that you get paid for or something that helps people in a more concrete way like making cheese or fixing work boots. But any hoots...
And now for the past....
I started piano and football at aged 9 while obsessed with The Beatles 'Sgt Peppers' album and the Geelong football club. I dreamed about the Beatles coming to my home town and I used to converse with the deceased John Lennon on a regular basis via the large photo on the inside of the album cover.
I rarely practised the piano except for when I 'panic practised' the piano for 3 weeks before an exam.
Took up guitar aged 14 coz it had more street cred.
My first band at school, 'Fishing for Fish' played covers that were well known and expected in Australian country towns. I liked a lot of music I now know is crap.
Moved to Melbourne aged 18 to study music at Box Hill Tafe where my final year report from my guitar teacher Mario Lattuada said "You lack that special something". I was a very sensitive boy and this hurt me and led me to lay aside my guitar hero ambitions for the songwriter's path.
Started writing songs proper when my house mate Mat Watson bought a 4 track and I thought "I can do this".
Thought about becoming a devotee of a guru...until, at the end of the book he said you had to worship him and that he WAS God.
Thought about becoming Jewish after seeing what some kids got for their Barmitzvah while working at a large Kosher hotel.
Thought about becoming Muslim coz Cat Stevens did it.
Tried Buddhism but my knees hurt.
Found my own path where Darwin meets Reincarnation.
Formed a band called The Restless in 2000 and after 2 EPs, 1 album and 2 tours and moderate success with Triple J I quit the band in 2006, believing I wouldn't do music anymore. I loved the band but something happened in my soul which made it difficult for me to continue. I still don't understand it. The break up was awful, one of the band members doesn't talk to me to this day and I still owe the label dosh.
I'm a better person now. Pain and sorrow are the hammer and chisel that the spirit uses to turn the soul into a work of art. Surely...
I get obsessed with stuff and my current obsession is with Damon Albarn and everything he's ever done. I want to be in Blur. Have you heard his latest project. 'The good the bad and the queen'?. It's bloody good. Do yourself a favour.
Treasure is in stores through fuse and is also available online via iTunes amongst others.
Hey man, Hope your well and safe up there in the springs. come along if you can. Tracey McNeil and Luke Sinclair are
gunna play a duo and the Bakersfield Glee Club will throw down a set
too. Should be a good day.
BRILLIANT SHOW last night Mick... top songs, I've had a lot of great feedback about you from punters. high fives all round! feel free to email me some myspace questions and i can shoot you back some codes to jazz things up (if you still want to do that). all the best!! x
Hey it sounds like it's better than "surviving". There's a li'l bit of thriving in there too :) Cool about Apollo Bay fest. Should be awesome. Congrats. :) Exciting times.
Yeah, played and figured that when you hadn't played by three, that you might have been sick. Despite the rain and cold, it was a good gig with a fair crowd attending too. Catch you later,
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