Biography

Bull-dust to bell-birds, barbed wire to backyards; from the red centre to the eastern urban sprawl, the highways & back-roads of Australia are littered with stories, and in a vast, sparsely populated country where increasing numbers of people are abandoning the bush for the cities, those stories increasingly take on an urban-country flavour.

Former front man for seminal Aussie alt country pioneers, The Parwills, Mark Lucas has lived in the bush and in the city and writes songs that reflect a well-travelled existence – enlivened by subtle insight and a sharp wit.
Mark’s band, The Dead Setters, provides a distinctive musical backdrop that Kim Cheshire in Country Update Magazine describes as “a near perfect musical setting for these distinctly Australian tales of restless souls, ghosts of the past, desert vistas and suburban angst.”
Between them one of the most experienced bands you are likely to encounter, the five piece Dead Setters stake out their territory with textured layers of fiddle, mandolin and pedal steel, backed with strong three part harmonies. With shades of Celtic, Americana folk & country blues soaking through the fabric, this is living Australian roots music.