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Mental as Anything

The poppy Australian new wave rock band Mental as Anything formed in Sydney in 1976. The classic line up of guitarist Reg Mombassa, guitarist and lead singer Martin Plaza, bass player Peter O’Doherty (Mombassa’s brother), drummer Wayne Delisle, and keyboard player Andrew “Greedy” Smith eventually coalescing in 1977. All of them were art-school students, and they immediately embraced a pointedly quirky, which still undeniably catchy, approach to music. Their idiosyncratic style brought them a cult audience during their early live performances, and their debut single, 1979’s “The N...