August 9th, 2019

Hi everybody,

An update now on what is going to go on in my life over the coming weeks, with the cancer I’ve been carrying around since last year.
WIth a ‘no fix’ overview firmly in mind, I have today, been offered an extended radiotherapy session, beginning this week, with its intention being to lessen the suffering somewhat, for my remaining duration and to undergo this treatment in Norway, where most of my diagnosis and treatment has so far taken place.
I will commence the treatment at the beginning of this week and look to continue until the middle of this month before returning home.
I have several recording sessions underway which I will hit the pause button on for a while and carry on when I get back to Sweden later in August.
I’d just like to say thanks, to all the artists involved in the sessions for being so understanding and to let everyone know I’m looking forward to getting back behind the microphone very soon. Some of my co-writers have even given me tracks to co-write while I am in cancer hospital; what a great way to spend that time.

Here is a picture of me and my close buddy, Toshack, in the forest, close to where we live.

Tony Mills

CANCER UPDATE.

July 31st, 2019

I know a lot of you are waiting for me to give you latest updates on my pancreatic cancer situation, so here is the latest information. 
My recent mobility problems have now been isolated to a fracture of the L3 vertebrae which doctors clarify has been caused by a spreading of the cancer. There is also evidence of a furtherence of suspect cancer swelling around my stomach lining. The pancreatic tumour itself, remains unchanged.
To relieve myself of the pain of walking of the broken spinal bone, i will undergo a focussed radiotherapy treatment to help relieve these pain symptoms and allow me to keep on walking. I believe this will be happening very soon.
I have various recording sessions going on now, which I am very excited about and they will not be affected, rest assured about that. My morale is very good, I am following all my life plans to continue recording and writing and spending quality time with my wife and indeed life.
I will of course, keep you in constant touch with my progress.
Tony Mills

July 30th, 2019

Walking has now become difficult for me, due to mobility problems growing since cancer is leaving its mark on my life in various ways. So, I may have postponed my application for the Olympics this time around, but my voice is in fine trim and working well. I don’t need to walk or stand up to write and sing songs for bands and artists, so dont think my singing career is being affected in the studio, because that is working just great.
I am working for one or two artists in Norway and Italy at the moment and i am looking forward to working for many more in the rock and metal genre as I can, so if you need some help wIth your record, please get in touch, for vocals, whether it is backing or lead or some help writing!! 
Looking forward to hearing from you. 
Tony

July 25th, 2019

SO !!! Exactly one year ago, I was looking at a blank screen, at the start of a new album writing session, wondering what the year would bring.
And what happened??
It brought me eight great musicians, eleven great songs and the ‘Beyond The Law’ album. 
Through all the writing sessions, I never knew I had developed cancer, until the car crash at Christmas. Since then, life changed a lot, with half of it, in and out of hospital as the disease developed and reared its ugly head in many ways. Now, with some assistance to help me walk, and charity work/ cancer concerts being organised in my name I live a very different life with the aid of my very supportive wife and a team of consultants in Norway taking life day by day as has been my choice and I soldier on. 
It was impossible to have seen the year ahead as it became, but nevertheless the year is over.

Now, I wonder what this next year will bring me.

11th of July, 2019

A heartfelt thankyou to all the sponsors that have supported this concert in aid of Cancer treatment. I am not undergoing therapy for my diagnosis of cancer, simply because it will not lengthen my lifespan which has been made very clear to me. Quality of life, it may have improved, but the desire to spend my time proving such theories in hospital waiting rooms and consultation offices has not appealed to me or my family at all, when we could be simply dealing with it on a daily basis and getting on with what life is offering right now.
Neither am I following any alternative paths of medicine, which I know has alienated a lot of people and their own beliefs, but I have always remained a relatively traditional person and I shall continue to do so.
Thank you to Douglas R. Docker for his concerted efforts to raise the awareness of cancer on my behalf and in my name; I have great respect for you Douglas and I look forward whole heartedly to recording the vocals on the third masterpiece for Docker’s Guild in the very near future. Recording vocals on the first album, ‘The Mystic Technocracy’, was without doubt one of the recording highlights of my career and I am very proud to be one of the vocalists on that album and this new sequel.
So please follow Douglas Docker and his tireless work for Dockers Guild and the festival he is managing in Italy during September this year.
Regards to all,

Tony Mills & Dockers Guild.

A fresh look and approach to life at 57 years old. Free of the thinking of my yesteryears and a clear view of my way ahead. Tony Mills – 7/7/2019.

June 12th, 2019

https://www.facebook.com/tonymillsfestival/

Hello to all, I am still trying to take this in, absorb it, and what it means and what it is capable of; I’m just beginning to realise just how kind and thoughtful, people can still be, in this day and age.
Let me come up with a suitable response and I will come back and talk to you some more, regarding this remarkable event and see whether it is actually possible to attend during September, in person, or not.
Many thanks,
Tony Mills

April 18th, 2019

WORK. That’s what is on my mind. I’ve always worked. I’m a working class man. My current status can’t change that. The amount of time I have, is unclear and no-one is pretending they know any better than I do. So, I have thought about this and I intend to work until it’s not possible anymore. 
I work mainly, for other musicians, these days. I write lyrics, record vocals, often both for the same song or album, sometimes, just lead, sometimes just backing vocals, quite often, both. 
If the voice doesn’t suit the genre or I know someone else that could do a better job of it, I pass that onto the customer.
If the music and ideas are right for me, we agree rates, we plan a timescale, we do the work to the satisfaction of the customer and we send finished files. Or mixes. Or both. 
So, from today until I can no longer serve this purpose, I will do this work.
Colleagues and friends have advised such a course and I am taking their advice. I’ve always liked writing and recording, so there’s little point changing, just because.
My voice and my pen still work fine. Nothing’s changed there. So, in the inimitable words of Seal, ‘Bring it On’. 
Tony Mills

April 7th, 2019

Cancer.

Not only my birth sign, but now also my fateline.

Recently diagnosed, but far too late. I have suffered since the end of last year, shortly after a car crash before Christmas, which halted my digestive system and left me with internal pain that was difficult to isolate or fully understand.
Various hospital visits found nothing from tests until I took myself to a private clinic in Oslo, where the doctor decided I was too unwell for normal scopes and I was scanned the following day.
A tumour too old and large to be removable had been growing inside me for a year or so and was the cause of all my problems. It seems to me that the car crash definitely accelerated the growth and/or effects of this entity, otherwise I may still not even be aware of it. So, that’s that.

Standing back from this for a moment, to look at my ensuing album release, I am grateful to the people around me that have been involved with my latest album, ‘Beyond the Law’, that will very obviously be my last written work as an artist.
The timing was nothing short of a relief. I am glad it got finished in time.
Certainly not least my wife Linda, Pete Newdeck, Harry Hess, Tommy Denander, Toine Vanderlinden, Josh ‘Tabbie’ Williams, Tony Forsythe and Chris Aldridge on the studio level and Pete Kotevski from Battlegod Productions Jon Løvstad, Alex Cooper, Avalon Music and Ivan Gunn for artistic support, finance and logistics.
The record is delayed slightly, until June to help the different territories release simultaneously and assist the record in some success.
I was planning a thirty year anthology of solo material next year (1990-2020);
I have spoken to some of my colleagues and they may well organise that.

WIth regard to what will happen in the short term, I don’t intend to do a lot; I gave up travelling after touring Spain three years ago, as I found it too tiring and it just felt like it was time to withdraw from such a public existence and get out of the spotlight. I have been a live performer in one fashion or another since 1978 and though many rockers paint the wrinkles and endeavour to recreate their long lost talents, that never interested me; I was always a believer in moving over for the youngsters and giving them their rightful opportunities while they were young and fit enough to do it with the energy that it requires.
I have been writing and recording for three years, mainly for other artists, which I have enjoyed a lot and for whatever time I have left, (which I will no doubt be told in no uncertain terms very soon) I intend to carry on that practice and work around the farm with my wife and the animals we love.
WIth little more to say for now, I will remain as sociable as possible for as long as I can, until it renders me incapable and then my wife will inform everyone of the eventualities. 
Thanks for your support during my time as a singer/songwriter; I met and worked with many of my heroes and I lived the dreams from when I was a starstruck teenager, against all odds and the advice of parents and teachers, who were all wrong.

Rock on.

Tony Mills