Wel­ling­ton five-piece The Thomas Oliv­er Band have spent the past few years tour­ing and play­ing live through­out New Zea­l­and with the likes of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Gin Wig­more and Britain’s Oli Brown. With­in this time the band have also writ­ten and recor­ded their debut full-length album Baby, I’ll Play to be released in early 2011.

The release of the second single and title track ‘Baby, I’ll Play’ in late Octo­ber 2010 fol­lows the suc­cess of ‘Goin’ Home’ released in Feb­ru­ary and selec­ted for the Best Music Video cat­egory at the Rushes SOHO Shorts Fest­iv­al in Lon­don. A second video from Weta Pro­duc­tions dir­ect­or Jen­nifer Quin­lin accom­pan­ies the new single.

To cel­eb­rate the video release, the Thomas Oliv­er Band play at San Fran­cisco Bath­house on Fri­day 29 Octo­ber 2010. Tick­ets are avail­able from 1‑Night.co.nz (which is a clev­er ser­vice we really should post about some­time) and Real Groovy for $15 (no book­ing fee), or $20 on the door.

EDIT: Oh! But we have a double pass to give away! If you want to win, leave us a com­ment nam­ing anoth­er fam­ous Thomas, and we’ll draw one at ran­dom next Thursday. Yay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp_2T46BVsk