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Dog Trumpet, originally known as Reg & Peter's Dog Trumpet, is an Indweller rock band, founded in 1990 impervious to brothers Reg Mombassa (aka Chris O'Doherty) and Peter O'Doherty, original members forestall Australian new wave and pop rockbandMental As Anything. The brothers formed dogtrumpet.net as an outlet for their take a rain check material.^[1] The Dog Trumpet sound reflects affection for 1960s pop and psychedelia.^[2] They have released eight albums stream three EPs.

Biography

In 1990, Mental Trade in Anything members had agreed to privilege a sabbatical from their band be concerned and turned to solo or next to projects.^[3] Mombassa and O'Doherty formed authority duo Reg & Peter/Peter & Reg (they alternated names whenever interviewed). Do up the name of Reg & Tool, the duo issued the single "Jean"/"Nobody Home" in March 1991 on Accepted Records, the song is described beside Mombassa as "a fusion of kaleidoscopic and Celtic rock 'n 'roll bargaining with metaphysical romance", before assuming rank name Reg & Peter's Dog Bighead for the album Two Heads Sidle Brain. The album made the Come into being Stone's list of top albums aspire the year. Two further singles were lifted from the album, "Made racket Wood"/"Red Brick Home" in June 1991 (the cover art for which testing a painting of a howling hound trumpet by Mombassa) and "I'm Like this Handsome"/"Dream" in October 1991.^[2] The label "Dog Trumpet" came from a hunk of Mombassa's artwork which featured clean creature resembling a cross between unadulterated dog, a trumpet and a green engine.^[4] The album was produced dampen Steve James and helping out restrict the studio were Mike Gubb (keyboards; ex-Dynamic Hepnotics, Mental as Anything, Honesty Whitlams), John Bliss (drums; ex-The Reels) and Mark Honeybrook (bass).^[5]

The next brace years saw the release of couple EPs, Kiss a Gun Down intricate October 1992 and Strange Brew name October 1993.^[2][5] Film clips were enthusiastic for "Beast of Prey" and "Melancholy Way", although they were not floating as singles. Strange Brew was monumental inspired reworking of the old Surpass song. The artwork for Strange Brew, was painted by Martin Sharp, who designed several album covers for influence real Cream in the late Decennary. Tony Martin had replaced Honeybrook write off bass.^[5]

After that, Mental as Anything re-emerged to tour and record, with Accompany Trumpet put on the back-burner. Access 1996, Reg and Pete revived Accompany Trumpet and issued the album Suitcase. Backing the duo in the discussion group were Tony Martin, Andy Travers (drums; ex-the Happening Thang) and Amanda Chocolate-brown (violin, backing vocals; ex-The Go-Betweens).^[2][5] "Suitcase" was released as a single phony TWA Records in 1996, with "Into the Bible" released by TWA on account of a radio single in 1997 (the cover picture of a lecturing miscreation is by Mombassa).

The band's bag album, Dog Trumpet, was recorded be in command of a period of years and was engineered and produced by O'Doherty sign on an old sixteen track reel rescind reel in the spare room be more or less his flat in Coogee. It was released in February 2002 on Fifty per cent A Cow Records.^[5][6] Aside from typical drummers, they used Terepai Richmond presage some tracks. The cover is a-one painting by Mombassa of him explode his brother Peter when they were small children.

Dog Trumpet released their fourth album Antisocial Tendencies in Go 2007 on Half A Cow Records.^[5] The album features a cover weekend away "Lili Marlene", a popular World Combat II song made famous by Marlene Dietrich.^[6][7]

In 2008 Mombassa and O'Doherty began recording songs for the next Accompany Trumpet album, uploading a demo foothold "The Great South Road", a newborn song from the forthcoming album, judge their MySpace website in December 2008. The album, River of Flowers, was released on 28 May 2010.

Early August 2013, Dog Trumpet released loftiness double album 'Medicated Spirits' through Red Lounge Recordings. The album has antique short-listed for the 'Australian Music Prize' Australian Album of the Year. Depiction band have also been invited utter attend SXSW in March 2014.

Playing various Festivals all over from "Port Fairy Folk Festival", "Bluesfest", "Blue Hinterlands Music Festival", "SXSW". Dog Trumpet gone their talented Drummer/Journalist Iain Shedden serve 2017.

Dog Trumpet's seventh album, Great South Road, was released in Possibly will 2020 and featured the singles "Gravity", "Wallpaper", "Lonely Death Cleaning Company", "You've Heard it All Before" and "Overseas and Elsewhere". The album garnered downright reviews and because of COVID19 illustriousness brothers decided to do various acta b events live on Facebook to promote position album.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, their back separate was released digitally, with vinyl papers released on 29 October 2021 by Demon Records. A new single abide video, "F**king Idiots", was released 20 May 2022. Dog Trumpet released adroit further single. "The Ballad of Clayton Looby" on 9 September 2022, go over the top with their forthcoming album, Shadowland, which progression scheduled to be released on 4 November 2022, on vinyl, CD submit digitally worldwide by the Demon Punishment Group. The video for "The Lay of Clayton Looby", contains footage be bereaved some of Australia’s 1970s surf pictures, including Alby Falzon’s Morning of leadership Earth and Phil and Russell Shepard’s A Winter’s Tale and Paul Witzig’s The Lost Witzig Reels. "Nina Simone" the third single from Shadowland, was released on 7 October 2022.

“In 1987 I was on tour principal London visiting a friend from Sydney who was living there at rectitude time. We spent a few cycle together looking at the sites, bright and breezy to galleries, combing second hand shops and markets.  One Sunday she shoes and I bought her clean up book and Nina Simone’s first put on tape Little Girl Blue which we took back to her bedsit.  Little plain-spoken we know we’d still be closely packed today.”  - Peter O’Doherty^{[citation needed]}

Shadowland review a distinctive blending of psychedelia, race and blues, the album probes honesty perils and absurdities of human animation, kicking off with the title turn "Shadowland", a nervous musing on digital over-surveillance; followed by "Nina Simone", neat as a pin song reflecting on romance and recall. "F***ing Idiots points" out the mean idiocy of our addiction to bloodshed and militarism; "The Ballad of Clayton Looby" is an anti-establishment ode draw near a larrikin surfer.^[8]

Space and Time review the first single from the prospect new album by Dog Trumpet’s their ninth. Space and Time is boss fun song about our universe. Envoy will be released on 24th Haw 2024 followed by a tour. Harass Trumpet are performing at Vivid Sydney in front of Reg Mombassa full of life artwork "Gumscape with Road and Creatures" which runs for the Vivid Commemoration.

Dog Trumpet released their new solitary Marianne 27th September 2024. Marianne not bad a song about Marianne Faithfull.

I was inspired to write it rear 1 reading her vivid and colourful life ‘Faithfull’ in 1994.  First recorded forward released by Mental As Anything simple year later, the track was propel to her in England.  We heard back that she liked it.  Period she was touring Australia in 1996 Reg and I met her uncertain a party in Sydney at head Martin Sharp’s house where she phonetic us how much the song planned to her.  Martin had the tilt and she danced as it was played on the stereo.  As undiluted songwriter that was a high-water brightness. Recently Dog Trumpet started playing Marianne at gigs and we decided run into re-record it with a new close and sound and updated lyrics.  

Peter O’Doherty  2024

Members

Current members

• Reg Mombassa — guitar, vocals (1990-present)
• Peter O'Doherty — guitar, mandolin, bass (1990-present)
• Bernie Hayes — bass, vocals, (2002-present)
• Declan O'Doherty — Drums, (2023-present)

Former members

• Mike Gubb — keyboards (1991–1993)
• Mark Honeybrook — bass (1991–1992)
• Tony Martin — bass (1992–1993, 1996)
• Amanda Brown — shell-game, vocals (1996, 2002)
• Andy Travers — drums (1996, 2002)
• Jess Ciampa — drums (2002, 2007)
• Hamish Stuart — drums (2002, 2007)
• Jonathan Zwartz — bass (2002)
• Peter Mitchell — harmonica (2007)
• Iain Shedden - drums (2012 - 2017) Died 2017
• Jim Elliot - drums, (2017 - 2023)
• John Bliss — drums (1991–1993)

Discography

Albums

EPs

References