Mick Hart is an Australian singer-songwriter. He tours and performs as a solo artist and also works with the side project Monkey Boy.

Career

Hart tours internationally and plays festivals and concerts in Australia, France, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, England, Ireland, Scotland and the USA. He also appears as a support act for a wide range of artists, including Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Sting, Van Morrison, Paul Weller, Gomez, Taj Mahal, Zwan, The Pretenders, Paul Kelly and John Butler Trio. He is praised by Ben Harper and by Dave Lory, Jeff Buckley’s former manager.

Music and recordings

His music combines rock, pop, blues and roots influences. Hart sings and plays guitar, lap steel, keyboards and harmonica, and his Australian band features Damian Leonard on bass, Tony Chubb on drums and Evan Browett on percussion.

He releases a fourth studio album, Finding Home, an acoustic record written and recorded in France and England in 2006 and 2007. The album is described as having a raw, intimate quality and is compared with the work of early Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, Ben Harper and Elliott Smith. Hart has also released three earlier albums: Still the Flowers Bloom (2001), Upside Down in the Full Face of Optimism (2002) and No Compromise (2004).

EPs and side project

His EPs include Release (1998), Kill Yourself for Love (1999), If You Could (2003) and Rewind (2006). He also has the harder-edged side project Monkey Boy and the release Bananas and Other Things from 2005.