Wed 11th June – Dance Magic Dance – The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch. The Mentalists! + Betty & The Werewolves + Kids Love Lies + Twisted Charm DJs:The Mentalists! in the French Alps:THE MENTALIST MANIFESTO:Photography by Mentalist Partner in Visual Crime, Amy Scaife. All Mentalist art direction by Kim E. Leon.Wanna be an Honourary Mentalist? We'll email you when we're playing. We won't give your details to anyone else.
Member Since: 9/18/2005
Band Website: thementalists.co.uk
Band Members: For bookings please contact:
info[at]thementalists.co.uk
Kim E. Leon (vox, guitar, keys)
M'Alice (bass, vox)
Kellymental (guitar)
Linza (drums)
Influences: AUDIO:
The Rolling Stones, The Who, Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Roxy Music, Prince, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Scott Walker, Hall & Oates, Radiohead, Jack White, Sting, Kim. E Leon's Lips, M'alice's Arms, Linza's Legs, KellyMental's Curls.....VISUAL:
Terry Gilliam, Gilbert&George, David Hockney, David Shrigley, Cindy Sherman, Barbera Kruger, Jim Jarmusch.
Sounds Like:
"...If there’s an uprising a’brewing, you can bet your bottom dollar these girls will be first in line to lead it. Surely a band teetering on the edge of something huge! Lock up your men, here come The Mentalists and no one is safe!" -Noise Makes Enemies
"Curiously sexless for women" - Alex James
(Rating: 8/10) "Now this has GOT something. The dog yelps suggest it may be scurvy...But beyond the crude riot grrrl frenzy, it has an appealing poppy centre and for all that, singer Kim E. Leon sounds like Hazel O'Connor. Her sheer INTENT soon obliterates your defences. "Sleazy listening" is how the band describe themselves. Very apt."
-Colin Irwin (Mercury Music Prize judge)
"...decapitates My Sharona and shits L7 down its neck" -Dina
"... from the sort of tune Raincoats/Slits/Kleenex would have been proud to have as an a-side with jagged whooping wordless backing vocals, to perky pop ska-esque Madness type tunes with raw-riffy-roughed up guitar stabs, and then there's a glorious classic girl group type song (Snow Queen) which would make a Spector pop fan blush happily...
Hurray for dancing. Hurray for Mentalists."
-Artrocker
"A frolicsome, jump up and down band who distill raw joy from the very ether surrounding them"
-Yanda Time
"Tearing attitudes down, reshaping the law, going into the dodgy territory and coming up smelling of the best female band, hang on less of the female, these girls compete in the best band category! Life really does taste better with The Mentalists!"
-Decode Magazine
"Singer Kim E. Leon has a voice like smooth whiskey in a mouth filled with chocolate cake at a hard-drinking five year old's birthday party."
-BBC
"...all girls but there is no cliché ‘girl band’ thing about them! It’s their technical strength, great songs and a fantastic stage presence that makes them potentially strong competitors for the Brits ‘Best Newcomers Awards’"
-Moles Club, Bristol
Bands The Mentalists! have played with:
Belle & Sebastian, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Boy Kill Boy, The Paddingtons, Noisettes, Kate Nash, Ebony Bones, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Mystery Jets, The Thirst, The Others, The Hot Puppies, Soho Dolls, Striplight...
Type of Label: None