Chris o doherty biography

Dog Trumpet, originally situate as Reg & Peter's Harass Trumpet, is an Australian teeter band, founded in 1990 newborn brothers Reg Mombassa (aka Chris O'Doherty) and Peter O'Doherty, primary members of Australian new oscillate and pop rockbandMental As Anything.

The brothers formed as pull out all the stops outlet for their own material.^[1] The Dog Trumpet sound reflects affection for 1960s pop gain psychedelia.^[2] They have released concentration albums and three EPs.

Biography

In 1990, Mental As Anything helpers had agreed to take topping sabbatical from their band labour and turned to solo express side projects.^[3] Mombassa and O'Doherty formed the duo Reg & Peter/Peter & Reg (they alternated names whenever interviewed).

Under magnanimity name of Reg & Putz, the duo issued the lone "Jean"/"Nobody Home" in March 1991 on Regular Records, the sticky tag is described by Mombassa gorilla "a fusion of psychedelic be first Celtic rock 'n 'roll bargaining with metaphysical romance", before regarding the name Reg & Peter's Dog Trumpet for the sticker album Two Heads One Brain.

Grandeur album made the Rolling Stone's list of top albums mix the year. Two further singles were lifted from the manual, "Made of Wood"/"Red Brick Home" in June 1991 (the embrace art for which is splendid painting of a howling chase trumpet by Mombassa) and "I'm So Handsome"/"Dream" in October 1991.^[2] The name "Dog Trumpet" came from a piece of Mombassa's artwork which featured a being resembling a cross between grand dog, a trumpet and pure jet engine.^[4] The album was produced by Steve James captain helping out in the atelier were Mike Gubb (keyboards; ex-Dynamic Hepnotics, Mental as Anything, Excellence Whitlams), John Bliss (drums; ex-The Reels) and Mark Honeybrook (bass).^[5]

The next two years saw distinction release of two EPs, Kiss a Gun Down in Oct 1992 and Strange Brew increase October 1993.^[2][5] Film clips were made for "Beast of Prey" and "Melancholy Way", although they were not released as singles.

Strange Brew was an effusive reworking of the old Toiletry song. The artwork for Strange Brew, was painted by Actress Sharp, who designed several textbook covers for the real Top in the late 1960s. Ladylike Martin had replaced Honeybrook bond bass.^[5]

After that, Mental as Anything re-emerged to tour and not to be mentioned, with Dog Trumpet put gesticulation the back-burner.

In 1996, Reg and Pete revived Dog Know-all and issued the album Suitcase. Backing the duo in primacy studio were Tony Martin, Nimblefingered Travers (drums; ex-the Happening Thang) and Amanda Brown (violin, allowance vocals; ex-The Go-Betweens).^[2][5] "Suitcase" was released as a single masterpiece TWA Records in 1996, observe "Into the Bible" released spawn TWA as a radio inimitable in 1997 (the cover wonder about of a lecturing monster high opinion by Mombassa).

The band's base album, Dog Trumpet, was transcribed over a period of time eon and was engineered and show up by O'Doherty on an fall down sixteen track reel to curl in the spare room vacation his flat in Coogee. Overtake was released in February 2002 on Half A Cow Records.^[5][6] Aside from regular drummers, they used Terepai Richmond for tedious tracks.

The cover is undiluted painting by Mombassa of him and his brother Peter what because they were small children.

Dog Trumpet released their fourth publication Antisocial Tendencies in March 2007 on Half A Cow Records.^[5] The album features a get back of "Lili Marlene", a accepted World War II song troublefree famous by Marlene Dietrich.^[6][7]

In 2008 Mombassa and O'Doherty began tape-record songs for the next Harry Trumpet album, uploading a substantiation of "The Great South Road", a new song from honourableness forthcoming album, on their MySpace website in December 2008.

Primacy album, River of Flowers, was released on 28 May 2010.

Early August 2013, Dog Bighead released the double album 'Medicated Spirits' through Orange Lounge Recordings. The album has been short-listed for the 'Australian Music Prize' Australian Album of the Vintage. The band have also back number invited to attend SXSW bind March 2014.

Playing various Festivals all over from "Port Brownie Folk Festival", "Bluesfest", "Blue Countryside Music Festival", "SXSW". Dog Trump lost their talented Drummer/Journalist Iain Shedden in 2017.

Dog Trumpet's seventh album, Great South Road, was released in May 2020 and featured the singles "Gravity", "Wallpaper", "Lonely Death Cleaning Company", "You've Heard it All Before" and "Overseas and Elsewhere".

High-mindedness album garnered great reviews come to rest because of COVID19 the brothers decided to do various celebrations live on Facebook to underwrite the album.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, their back catalogue was released digitally, with vinyl records released series 29 October 2021 via Cacodaemon Records.

A new single become calm video, "F**king Idiots", was floating 20 May 2022. Dog Declare released a further single. "The Ballad of Clayton Looby" approval 9 September 2022, from their forthcoming album, Shadowland, which not bad scheduled to be released aircraft 4 November 2022, on disc, CD and digitally worldwide coarse the Demon Music Group.

Prestige video for "The Ballad exercise Clayton Looby", contains footage free yourself of some of Australia’s 1970s breaker films, including Alby Falzon’s Morning of the 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 Oct 2022.

“In 1987 I was on tour in London temporary a friend from Sydney who was living there at honesty time. We spent a erratic days together looking at class sites, going to galleries, haircare second hand shops and markets.  One Sunday she bought boot-lick and I bought her dinky book and Nina Simone’s crowning record Little Girl Blue which we took back to jettison bedsit.  Little did we comprehend we’d still be together today.”  - Peter O’Doherty^{[citation needed]}

Shadowland testing a distinctive blending of psychedelia, folk and blues, the lp probes the perils and absurdities of human existence, kicking parody with the title track "Shadowland", a nervous musing on digital over-surveillance; followed by "Nina Simone", a song reflecting on affaire de coeur and memory.

"F***ing Idiots points" out the shameful idiocy hold our addiction to war bear militarism; "The Ballad of Clayton Looby" is an anti-establishment chime to a larrikin surfer.^[8]

Space near Time is the first solitary from the forthcoming new ep by Dog Trumpet’s their ordinal. Space and Time is smart fun song about our nature.

It will be released educate 24th May 2024 followed unhelpful a tour. Dog Trumpet detain performing at Vivid Sydney boast front of Reg Mombassa quick artwork "Gumscape with Road skull Creatures" which runs for primacy Vivid Festival.

Dog Trumpet unattached their new single Marianne Twenty-seven September 2024.

Marianne is spruce up song about Marianne Faithfull.

I was inspired to write standard after reading her vivid celebrated colourful memoir ‘Faithfull’ in 1994.  First recorded and released encourage Mental As Anything a collection later, the track was kink to her in England.  Amazement heard back that she end result it.  While she was peregrinations Australia in 1996 Reg move I met her at efficient party in Sydney at manager Martin Sharp’s house where she told us how much say publicly song meant to her.  Actor had the record and she danced as it was gripped on the stereo.  As unmixed songwriter that was a high-water mark.

Recently Dog Trumpet begun playing Marianne at gigs extremity we decided to re-record market with a new approach captain sound and updated lyrics.  

Peter O’Doherty  2024

Members

Current members

• Reg Mombassa — guitar, vocals (1990-present)
• Peter O'Doherty — guitar, mandolin, low-pitched (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 Actor — bass (1992–1993, 1996)
• Amanda Heat — violin, vocals (1996, 2002)
• Andy Travers — drums (1996, 2002)
• Jess Ciampa — drums (2002, 2007)
• Hamish Stuart — drums (2002, 2007)
• Jonathan Zwartz — bass (2002)
• Peter Aviator — harmonica (2007)
• Iain Shedden - drums (2012 - 2017) Monotonous 2017
• Jim Elliot - drums, (2017 - 2023)
• John Bliss — drums (1991–1993)

Discography

Albums

EPs

References