Live Forever

Dog Trumpet is spearheaded by brothers Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa, original members of iconic Aria award winning and Hall of Fame band Mental As Anything.

Featuring Bernie Hayes on Bass and Vocals and Declan O’Doherty on Drums and Vocals.

Over the last thirty years as Dog Trumpet they have released eight criEcally acclaimed albums: Two Heads One Brain, Suitcase, Dog Trumpet, AnEsocial Tendencies, River of Flowers, Medicated Spirits, Great South Road and Shadowland.

Parallel to their music careers Reg is well known too for his idiosyncraEc work for Mambo Graphics and as a fine arEst. Peter is also a successful and much sought aKer painter. For over four decades the brothers have exhibited in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Asia.

Our latest single Live Forever is an uptempo pop rock song. The lyrics are impressionisEc and slightly ambivalent, expressing a fear of good and bad things and quesEoning any desire to live forever. The song is the Etle track from the new album our 9th which will be out on 11th July 2025.

On the 13th June Dog Trumpet will release “High On The Rocks” written by Peter O’Doherty from the album Live Forever it is a song about a lifelong fear of falling, childhood and anxiety, riding on a psychedelic bed of guitars and organs, all immersed in a dreamlike state of memory and existence; a constant reminder that change is constant and nothing repeats or remains the same. Over melodic guitars and organ, the music ebbs and flows as do the lyrics.