Mick Young - vocals, guitar
Mijo Biscan - elec and acoustic guitar, vocals
Dave Bennet - bass, vocals
Kate McMahon - Keyboardths, vocals
Matt Watson - drums when possible
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
SINGLE OF THE WEEK!!!
(Beat Magazine)
Wednesday 20th Feb 2008
YOUNG WERTHER
Treasure EP
by Simone
'Young Werther is a terrifically sweet local band led by Mick Young and named after the semi-autobiographical vessel of a young Johann Goethe. In honour of their sorrowful namesake, they play impassioned drifts of folk pop with heavy-hearted lyrics; beautiful in an aching sort of way. Delicate rivers of finger-picked guitar flow through the record, while Mick sings in gorgeous poetic shivers about epic love and distant shores.Through the vivid, painterly strokes of Cornish Green, the rain-spattered lament of All Their Secrets and the restrained grace of Come On Back Here, this record wraps you in its arms and slowly seeps into your skin.'
YOUNG WERTHER HAS BEEN FEATURED AT:
BIOGRAPHY
Young Werther
Though he takes his name from one of Goethe’s most delicate characters, Young Werther (otherwise known as Mick Young) has had a considerably less tumultuous life than his namesake. A musician from a young age, Young Werther writes songs filled with sorrow and longing, his lyrics belying the hopeful beauty of the delicate instrumentation.
Despite his early musical training, Mick began his working life as a young lad in his dad’s butchers shop. Initial dreams of a luminous Aussie rules football career were put on the backburner when he caught sight of a pig hanging from a hook in his dad’s shop. This macabre image prompted the impressionable Mick to listen to his creative ancestry – his grandmothers had been a poetess and a painter and his father had a passion for music. It seemed all but natural that he should follow in these well-worn footsteps.
Uprooting himself from the small Victorian town of Stawell, the impressionable 18 year old Mick moved to Melbourne and found a like-minded bunch of collaborators, forming The Restless in 2000. With airplay from national youth network JJJ and an extensive Australian tour, the band released two EPs and an album before finally disbanding in 2005.
After six months of a creative drought, the vegetarian Mick contemplated a return to butchering until one day he came across a Bob Dylan film and soon realised (once again) that music was his calling. Slowly piecing together songs for his debut under the moniker Young Werther, Mick found the perfect outlet for his pop-tinged folk songs and delicate singer-songwriter sensibility. The end result is Treasure, a collection of six tracks which showcase Mick’s powerful lyrics coupled with gentle acoustic guitar and lush instrumentation.
Young Werther’s mini-album, Treasure, is out now in store and via iTunes.
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,
Surviving, ey. Yeah, could say the same thing ;)
Lots of exciting things happening though, it's always moving. Bit of a Melbourne tour, single release.
Hey Mick, how was the Apollo Bay fest? How everything went well... Thought I might invite you down to a gig i am playing at the Espy this Wed (the 1st of April) I am playing with a bass player called 'Voice & Bass', if you are interested. Anyway chat soon.. Mark
Thanks for your friendship :)
How are you? What's the music scene like in your neck of the woods?
I'd be stoked if you checked out my tracks, if you had a moment. Let me know what you think.
Ah,always a pleasure to hear from you Mick,hope you and your family are still safe from the fires? we don't hear about it on the news over here anymore,are they still going on? Thankyou for your kind words,being the insecure freak that I am,it's really great to get some feedback from someone whos music I admire and respect....on that subject, ' a man dressed in lightning' is brilliant mate,your voice sounds better than ever!....keep me updated with how everything musical and otherwise is going. Love to you. Mike
