Seminal Mental As Anything offshoot Dog Trumpet sign landmark international record deal
Words by Tom Parker
UK’s Demon Music will release all of Dog Trumpet’s seven albums on vinyl and remaster them for online.
Dog Trumpet, the project of former Mental As Anything members Reg Mombassa and Peter O’Doherty, has just inked a record deal with Demon Music that will see all seven of their albums remastered for digital release and available on vinyl for the first time.
Co-founded by the legendary Elvis Costello, Demon Music has established a reputation as one of the world’s best catalogue/reissue labels, with their drive to promote niche and cult bands who mightn’t ordinarily get exposure positioning them as recognised tastemakers.
Dog Trumpet Catalogue Goes Global Via Demon Records
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.
Reg and Pete have a long history with one Demon Records founder, Elvis Costello. Elvis produced their 1992 Mental As Anything hit ‘I Didn’t Mean To Be Mean’.
Dog Trumpet released their first album in 1991 but ever Since 2000, when Reg and Pete left Mental As Anything, Dog Trumpet has been their creative musical outlet. There has been seven Dog Trumpet albums, Two Heads One Brain (1991), Suitcase (1996), Dog Trumpet (self titled) (2002), Antisocial Tendencies (2007), River of Flowers (2010), Medicated Spirits (2013) and their latest Great South Road (2020).
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