Blind Mullets
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Blind Mullets was a colloquial term used in Australia during the 80s when sewerage was a problem on Sydney's beaches. Basically, a Blind Mullet is a floating turd. However in 1988, two singer-songwriters from Sydney, Mark Mullet and Dan Mullet decided to form a duo based around the fact that Mark had written one song in protest to the sewerage problems. They called themselves the Blind Mullets. The duo are widely known for their contribution to western suburbs popular rock (music). Both men were born during the drug riddled year of 1964. Growing up in the far western suburbs of Sydney in the Parramatta district, they are also known as Mark Benning and Danny Whyman. Their childhoods collided in 1983 at a music jam at Marist Brothers High School Dundas. The real story of the Mullets began later in the decade.
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[edit] The Beginning of the Blind Mullets
Dan and Mark Mullet (unrelated) found themselves strangely drawn towards each other as a result of a freak masturbation competition accident. Whilst both simultaneously reaching for the same porno magazine at the inaugral 'Western Sydney Beat Your Meat' competition, a clash of heads concussed the pair. As they were rushed to the local St Johns ambulance tent for medical treatment, it was not only their semi naked bodies laying strewn on the canvas stretcher beds displaying their unusually larger than normal genitals that this dynamic duo had in common. Oh yeah, they had the same name in common too. More importantly, they shared a love of music, beer, women, porn, more beer, more porn and of course, a satirical and cynical opinion of this wide brown cultureless continent with which we exist in. Damn it, someone has to write about the stuff that was rampaging through their minds and as it was only them that could read their own minds, it was Dan and Mark Mullet that decided it would probably be better if it were they that wrote their original music (Vulcan mind melds were considered but as they didn't know any people from the planet Vulcan, it was consensually agreed that they should write their own material).
They performed regularly during the 80s and 90s and were innaugral members of the Songwriter Society of Australia and were an important part of the Sydney performance poet scene known as the Tongue Circus with luminaries such as Tug Dumbly, AJ Rochester and the Black Berets.
[edit] The 4 Piece Years
Feeling the need to expand their sound, in 1999 the duo recruited old friends Dave Caruana and Pete Morley to the line-up. Enjoying the fuller sound, they emabrked on their first full length album at Zen Studios Sydney which would be called, 'I hate your guts but I love your tits'. The album was a hit with their live audiences and sold very well for undeclared non taxable cash income - sorry ATO. They toured until 2002 when the tyranny of distance between members and the inevitable band differences saw their demise as a four piece.
[edit] Duo for Life
Not wishing to completely leave their original works left in the bottom drawer with the Thai takeaway menus, half price pizza shopper dockets, corroded AA batteries and one lone chopstick, Mark and Dan have been collaborating again and plan to release a rarities album soon. They also plan to embark on a selective concert tour in 2008 called, Live and Un-Butt Plugged.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- I Hate Your Guts but I love Your Tits (2000)
- Rarititties 1988-1998 (due early 2008)
