The Mental As Anything Story Launch: Stuart Lloyd with Dave Warner

Stuart Lloyd will be in-coversation with Dave Warner. Mental as Anything members Reg Mombassa, Peter O'Doherty, and Dave ‘Bird’ Twohill will join Stuart for an audience Q&A and book signing.

About the Book 

A superbly researched and written account of one of Australia’s most popular bands, with unfettered access to all the key players, and a defacto social history of a time when living in Sydney was cheap and fun.

The Mentals went from the top of a pool table to the top of the charts. Enjoy the untold stories behind Aussie classics like: Live It Up, Too Many Times, If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Berserk Warriors, Egypt, The Nips are Getting Bigger, and a whole lot more.

Plus, tales from the road as told by Greedy, Martin, Bird, Pete & Reg — and a star-studded cast including Colin Hay, Richard Gottehrer, Mark Opitz, Ross Wilson and Wreckless Eric — in this access-all-areas official biography.

Stuart Lloyd has interviewed the likes of Paul Kelly, Bic Runga and REM, on song writing, and his travel and music features have appeared in publications such as Variety (US), The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, and Songsmith. This is his 19thnon-fiction book. The Telegraph (UK) described him as ‘The Perfect Storyteller!’

Dave Warner is an author, musician and screenwriter. He has written nine novels and six non-fiction books. His first novel, City of Light, won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks (2015) the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime fiction. His most recent crime novels are River of Salt and Over My Dead Body.  In 2017 he released his tenth album, When. He has been named a Western Australian State Living Treasure and has been inducted into the WAMi Rock’n’Roll of Renown.