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Project Mayhem
Genre: Punk, Pop
Region: Perth, WA
Members: Benny Mayhem - Vocals* Hugh Drockstar - Guitar* Jesse Deviant - Bass* Bangers McKay - Drums
Sounds Like: Dead Kennedys, Motorhead, turbonegro
Influences: Hunter S Thompson, Perth City, Gonzo Rock

Allow me to set the scene. It is the year 2007. Seven years into the tumultuous decade that kicked off our new millennium with a weird Orwellian bang. A time of fear and paranoia. War and control. Impending Armageddon? Near-total employment. In Perth, Western Australia, some still chase the Australian dream: a nice quiet house close to a school in a white-bread suburb, somewhere they can visit when they’re not working the mines. Blind consumerism and bland mediocrity…

But in the city, in the back-alleys sharehouses and nightclubs lives a different kind of escapism—sure-fire hedonism, The Simpsons generation with a bottle of Jack Daniels and nothing to lose. Good people on the wild rollercoaster, dealing with the heartless reality of John Howard’s Australia by leaving it all behind... at least ‘till Monday. This is the world in which four intrepid adventurers found themselves. Four middle class white boys, armed with little more than sheer talent, determination, and a whole fuckload of luck.

Project Mayhem: four rock’n’roll visionaries on a quest.
The result: No Rest For The Wicked.

The title says it all; no matter how you interpret it. Here is a snapshot of life in the seedy underbelly of Western Australia. A document of a time and place; a full-throttle punk rock Gonzo trip through the decadent desiccated swampland, all sludge fuzz bass and stoned grooves… guitars ringing with soul and aggression while a modern-day rock’n’roll poet spits a demented sermon at lightening speeds.

No Rest For The Wicked tells it like it is, drawing influence from the sights and sounds of the place it was written and recorded. The people and events, the bands and the fans; lost weekends, the highs and the lows of life in the rock’n’roll business in a parochial town on the edge of the desert where the nearest discernable civilisation is literally thousands of kilometres away.

Subversive, honest, self-aware, and completely insane; Project Mayhem are the spokesmen for a generation. So round up the most entertaining characters you know, bust out bulk quantities of your favourite poison, and hold on to your couch for dear life for there is nothing in the world quite like the Project Mayhem Rock’n’Roll Experience.

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Fuck Yeah!
rating:  5/5
Absolutely fucking love it! My new favourite song. These guys are great live.




Gonzo Rock
rating:  5/5
DONE IT AGAIN BOYS! another pub-tastic track. ur voice n lyric style is so fkn good it leaves me going "why hadnt i wrote that"?! its honest n simple...




Fuck Yeah!
rating:  5/5
FUCKING FANTASTIC U FUCKERZ!!! you wrote THE ANTHEM song that every muso wants to...how its too easy o pick up when u play I SALLUTE YOU!




Gonzo Rock
rating:  5/5
sick as man lovin it always
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This project is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body, through its Music Board Section.