Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates

About Me

Anthony Atkinson is a singer/songwriter from Melbourne who in 2003 released his debut solo record 'Come home for Autumn' on the independent label Candle Records. Anthony was formerly lead singer of the occasionally noticed indie pop band The Mabels and they released an E.P and two albums between 1996 and 2001. Anthony now has a new band (The Running Mates) that features some of his good friends from other Melbourne bands such as The Lucksmiths, Mid State Orange and Joni Lightning. Anthony plays regularly in Melbourne and often in other capital cities around Australia. In 2000 he did a fourteen date acoustic tour of the the East coast of America with Kim Parker from the Mabels. In late 2003 he toured the U.K and parts of Europe.His second record 'Loyalty Songs' was released in October 2006. He is also a grade 2 primary school teacher in Melbourne's inner north.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2006
Band Members: The Running Mates are Louis Richter - Lead guitar, Marty Donald - Bass guitar, Dave Rose - Drums, Chris Baker - Pedal steel guitar.
Influences: Here are some bands and other things of influence. The Smiths, Morrisey, Wilco, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, Richard Buckner, Calexico, Okkervil River, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine. New Pornographers, Laura Veirs, Pogues, Dick Gaughan, Damien Jurado, Ron Sexsmith, Teenage Fanclub, Built to Spill, The Housemartins, The Go-betweens, Grandaddy, Elvis Costello,R.E.M, The Flaming Lips, Billy Bragg, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian, Gillian Welch, Low, Gaslight Radio, Sandro, Mid-State Orange, Ken Loach films (esp My Name is Joe and Kes), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Ice Storm, The Straight Story, Secrets and Lies, Paris Texas, John King books, Richard Ford books, Raymond Carver stories, Jeffrey Smart paintings, Six Feet Under, The Royle Family, The Office and the Northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Record Label: Candle Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I have a daughter

At 1 minute passed midnight on the 1/2/08 my partner Lani gave birth to our little girl Alice. She's a marvel!
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:54:00 PST

Plans for something new

I have this plan for an EP which I'll probably do with close collaborative ally Louis Richter and maybe some other Running Mates and ring-ins. The embryonic notion at the moment is to watch the 1971 K...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Tue, 08 May 2007 02:25:00 PST

Email chat with Darrren Hanlon

Here's an email interview Daz and I did to fill some time for the Candle website because our records were released within a week of each other.. They were such insightful ramblings that I thought I'd ...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:35:00 PST

Interstate shows

Very pleased to announce a few interstate album launches. Thursday the 23rd of November we play the Basement in Sydney with Rob Clarkson supporting and we do Adelaide on Saturday the 2nd of December a...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:09:00 PST

Album launch

Very excited to announce the album launch of Loyalty Songs will take place on Friday the 27th of October at the East Brunswick club. The Small Goods duo will be opening the night followed by label bud...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:51:00 PST

A bit about Loyalty Songs

The recording of Loyalty Songs started in early June and was completed a couple of weeks ago. We tracked with our good friend and all round guru Phil Romerill from the Small Knives and mixed with Crai...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:25:00 PST

New songs to hear.

Well the new record is available through the Candle website now and it's officially released in shops on the 14th of October with a launch planned for late oct. I've posted two tunes from the record o...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:18:00 PST

Recording

Started recording a new record last weekend up at Mt Dandenong and it's all sounding pretty good. Hopefully we'll have ourselves a finished LP with about 10 tunes on it out around October.The titles o...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 05:03:00 PST

Grant Mclennan

As a kid whenever I was forced to think of death the exit strategy of choice was "in my sleep". I'm just glad one of my favourite songwriters has experienced a quiet passing. I'd prefer to think that ...
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Thu, 11 May 2006 05:14:00 PST

It's great that Tom's there for me.

Being somewhat of a ludite with the internet stuff it was enough of a challenge to get this site up and running and the concept of acquiring friends through the technology is just too daunting...........
Posted by Anthony Atkinson & the Running Mates on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:19:00 PST