2ST Presents Mental As Anything for ROCKTOBER

2006, 2007, 2008: The Mentals head into Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney to lay down tracks for Tents Up. This is the most satisfying recording experience for the band in a long time, but it turns out due to legal issues, it will be a long time before it will be released. Most of the tracks are mixed at Rocking Horse Studios, Federal in northern NSW, by Steve James (“Rock n’ Roll Music” producer) and mastered by Aussie Leon Zervos at Stirling Sound, New York. While this is going on, the band is constantly touring Australia with detours to Shanghai and Macau and a short tour of Port Moresby in early 2007.

2009: Warner Music Australia has acquired the Mentals back catalogue and plans to relaunch all the hits.

May 1: The release of “Essential As Anything”. It contains “Close Again” and Martin Plaza’s solo monster “Concrete n’ Clay”, and as a bonus Monumental 1 & 2 - 37 of the Mentals video clips on DVD for the first time ever. The band’s back catalogue is now made available for digital download on iTunes and internationally through Rhino. The Mentals started out on vinyl records and have ended up on the net. What next?

June 12: Release of new original album “Tents Up” on Warner Music - the culmination of all the effort, blood, sweat and tears of the past most tempestuous five years in the life of Mental As Anything.