They have outlasted four Prime ministers, the death of the vinyl LP, the rise of Microsoft and the Internet, man's colonisation of space, the New Romantic Movement, Pol Pot and big hair. Their career has spanned the flared jean coming in and out of fashion. They have sold over 2 million records world-wide and had Top 10 hits in North America and Europe. They have staged three critically acclaimed art exhibitions. Been courted by Paul Keating. They have written more than a dozen songs about drinking.
A popular urban myth concerns a group of art students who passed themselves off as a band in order to con the local publican into giving them a gig in exchange for free beer. The deception worked better than intended, and the group came to be known as Mental as Anything. Nearly three decades later, they are still irritating the public with their highly listenable, idiosyncratic brand of garage pop.
The band latest release Plucked was released in November 2005 on Liberation in both Australia and New Zealand.
This Album, is part of The Liberation Acoustic Blue Series, it has fourteen of the Bands Greatest Hits performed on Acoustic instruments including the ukulele, banjo, guitar, harmonica and xylophone. It includes great versions of Blacktown to Bondi, Brain and Stretchmarks, alongside the better known tunes like Live It Up, Mr Natural Too Many Times and The Nips Are Getting Bigger.
woo hoo,
i saw you guys last weekend at campbelltown catholic club i was front and centre, you guys are so much fun. i had the best time. thanks for the best time!
Thanks for a great concert at the Campbelltown Catholic Club last Saturday night....it's was fantastic to see two brilliant Aussie bands perform like that.
Hi Guys, A good mate of mine and a long time fan of you blokes caught your show a couple of weeks back and tells me you're still as good as ever (not that I doubted that...lol).
OK, so now I need a venue in my neck of the woods, any hope you'll be in the Ballarat area in the near future. btw...You have a new generation of fans, a couple of my grandkids (with musical ability) really dig some of your work (high praise indeed), hopefully if you do get down this way it'll be somewhere that I can bring them along. Cheers!
