Thigh Master Unveil Debut LP Release Details & Tour Dates

Stalwart Brissy indie-rockers Thigh Master are following up a solid performance at last week's BIGSOUND showcase with the news they're set to hit the road in support of their eagerly awaited impending debut LP, Early Times, next month.

The band have just announced that the album will be released on Friday 7 October on emergent local label Coolin' By Sound (and Bruit Direct Disques, for non AU/NZ territories), in the wake of taster singles Canned Opening and Company. The album has been a while coming, too, with frontman Matthew Ford recounting the tale of its genesis — a saga that includes drummer Pat Byron as well as original bassist Dan Ford and guitarist Dusty Anasstasiou, not to mention later conscript Innez Tulloch — on Facebook thus:

"In December 2013 Myself, Pat and Dan went into to record 9 songs with Dubsy (Blank Realm) at The Hangar. Dusty joined the band not long after that and we recorded another 4 tracks at a storage space Kelvin Grove that BR were using as a rehearsal room. That was sometime in May 2014 I think?

"A couple weeks later we recorded Dusty's guitar in Dubsy's room in Red Hill over most of the tracks we first recorded which took but 3 hours. The next two years Dubs and I [sporadically] recorded guitar & vocals, and then mixed the songs every now and then at his house and in a couple other rehearsal spaces (we really owe BR some beers). About 15 minutes were spent recording a guitar part Innez added to Canned Opening somewhere in late 2015. It probably should have come out earlier but I'm indecisive and shit just gets in the way y'know?"

Thigh Master will kick off their Early Times LP tour at The Time Machine, Sunshine Coast, on Sunday 9 October (with The Ocean Party, Big White and Shorts), with additional dates lined up in Adelaide (with Wireheads and The High Beamers), Melbourne (with Lower Plenty and The Stroppies), Brisbane (with Wireheads, Tralala Blip and more) and Sydney (with Wireheads and more).

See the tour's Facebook event page for all the details.