Meet the Mentals……………….
Some of you may recognise us from the various
bands we have been in over the years (although some of us had more hair back
then!) or from other bands we are currently in.
The League of Mentalmen
was formed in March 2002 – prior to Mark joining us we were doing similar types
of songs with a female singer (Shammi & the Leathers) but we knew a male
singer would give us more scope for the type of material we wanted to murder!!
(And we had the idea of wearing women’s clothes for a laugh and we couldn’t
have a singer who looked better than us!!).
Like a lot of bands we try and take a song and
make it our own – in our case we normally take a standard pop song or ballad
and make it faster and rockier than the original. Although we have been known
to slow it down and add a reggae feel!
We also do the odd original punk/metal cover for good measure…..anyway,
here we are:
Mental Mickey – guitar
Started in a club band called Axis – went on
to play with Tim in the X-Pistols, who supported various bands including The
Damned, The Vibrators and Tenpole Tudor.
Paul Mental – bass guitar/backing
Looks far too good in a dress – used to play
with country blues band Mojo.…. until he saw the light and sold his soul for
punk! ……..or something like that……
Mental
Rasty – singer
The Jack Duckworth of the Frock and Roll
world..…prior to joining the Mentalmen he sang with a local band Black Sheep
doing rock and blues.
Tim Mental – drums/backing
Auditioned for Judas Priest to replace Dave
Holland…. but was beaten to it by Scott Travis (current drummer)……..close but
no cigar!
Started in glam rock band Tayma in the 80’s
and also played with Mick in Sex Pistols tribute band, the X-Pistols during
late 90’s, early 00’s.
Tim, Mickey and Paul
were, for a short period, Sigue Sigue Sputnik 2, fronted by original singer, Martin
Degville, though sadly vodka was an issue so they reverted back to the
Mentalmen, where vodka could be handled in a more rock n roll way. X X