REGURGITATOR mish mash

Mish Mash, in case you’d forgotten, is the result of Regurgitator’s brush with Reality TV. In just two weeks over a million people gawped at them whilst they recorded an album inside a giant fishbowl in Melbourne city centre.


The ‘Gurge will tell you this was all in the name of “art”. Some uncharitable people are a teeny bit cynical though and say it was all a shameless publicity stunt. But let’s not get in to that here. What you wanna know is what the songs are like right? Well duh! They’re a mish mash of course!


You like a bit of ska? Take ‘Welcome To My Ego’ for a spin. Or maybe you’re more into Weezer-style alternapop? ‘Metal Is Big’ should suit you. Or how about ‘The Game’, a 70s cop show theme tune that morphs into a rap dissing rappers? Too postmodern for ya? Then what about a good old fashioned tearjerker like ‘I Was Sent By God’? Yep, there’s something for everyone here.


The biggest compliment you can pay Mish Mash is that the music stands out from the hullaballoo surrounding it. It’s an eclectic and fascinating album in its own right.


If this album were food it would be rissoles: loadsa different stuff mashed up together.

Article by Andy McLean. Copyright held by author.
First published in The Brag, Sydney, 2004.

Mish Mash is available through Valve Records.