Mental As Anything Archives

Dog Trumpet’s new song ‘Marianne’ is about the icon Marianne Faithfull but the song itself is an old Mental As Anything song.

The video for the new Dog Trumpet song is here. ‘Space and Time’ is the first taste of the upcoming ninth album for Dog Trumpet. This one is a Reg Mombassa song.

On Friday May 24, Dog Trumpet will release new music and perform new music. The song ‘Space and Time’ is the first new song since the release of the ‘Shadowland’ album in 2022.

The Radiators have added a cover of Mental As Anything’s classic ‘Live It Up’ to their setlist. The song was added to The Rads set after The Rads added former Mental As Anything guitarist to their band.

Dog Trumpet will perform at book launches for Stuart Lloyd’s new Mental As Anything book ‘Started Out Drinking Beer’.

Dog Trumpet will hit the road again this weekend for Part Two of the Shadowland tour. It is Wollongong’s turn on Friday 15th September and then Sydney again on September 16.

Dog Trumpet will be travelling into Victoria this week for their first shows since 2019.

In the new Dog Trumpet ‘No More Travelling’ Peter O’Doherty does all the travelling for us.

Dog Trumpet’s long overdue Shadowland tour will begin on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland on Friday night followed by an already sold-out show in Brisbane on Saturday.

Dog Trumpet has a new music video for the title track of the ‘Shadowland’ album.

Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa will take Dog Trumpet on the road in 2023 for a major trek along the east coast and into Tasmania.

Dog Trumpet have a show for Sydney on Friday 25 November at The Great Club in Marrickville.

Martin Cilia, Mental As Anything guitarist from 2015 to 2019, has released a solo instrumental version of the Mental As Anything classic ‘Live It Up’.

Dog Trumpet’s Peter O’Doherty can thank Nina Simone for playing a part in his last 35 years.

Dog Trumpet’s latest preview of the upcoming ‘Shadowland’ album is ‘The Ballad of Clayton Looby’.

Dog Trumpet are preparing for the release of their eighth album ‘Shadowland’.

Dog Trumpet have addressed the madness of society today in one of the most powerful protest songs you’ll hear in a long time called ‘Fucking Idiots’.

Dog Trumpet’s next four albums are released on Vinyl this week making all seven now available to purchase.

Martin Cilia, the guitarist for Mental As Anything for the band’s final six years, has released his tribute to Mental’s singer and co-founder Greedy Smith, who passed away two years ago today (2 December 2019).

Everything you ever wanted from Dog Trumpet is now (or soon will be) on Vinyl.

ARIA Hall of Famers Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty will go global with their Dog Trumpet catalogue on vinyl via the UK’s Demon Records.

Mental As Anything have the number one song in England on the UK’s iTunes chart.

Dog Trumpet’s Peter O’Doherty reached back into his past when he was a kid to create ‘Stay For Too Long’ on Dog Trumpet’s new ‘Great South Road’ album.

Dog Trumpet’s Reg Mombassa has a simply description of himself, with thanks to his wife.

Dog Trumpet’s ‘Great South Road’ is the first album in seven years for ex-Mental As Anything co-founders Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa.

Dog Trumpet’s Peter O’Doherty says his song ‘At Anytime’ is part fact, part fiction.

‘Lonely Death Cleaning Company from the new Dog Trumpet album ‘Great South Road’ would have to be one of the most macabre songs Reg Mombassa has even written.