The Welcome Mat

The Welcome Mat
Origin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	alternative
Years active	1989 - 1997
Labels	Regular/Festival, id/Mercury
Associated acts	Knievel 2 Litre Dolby The Small Knives
Past members	Wayne Connolly Cory Messenger Leo Mullins Peter Bennett David Moss Andrew Nunns

The Welcome Mat was a four-piece Australian indie rock group which formed in Sydney in 1989, and broke up in January, 1997. Throughout the early-to-mid-1990s, their songs "Last of the Great Letdowns", "Cake", "Landspeed", "10,000 People", "Hell Hoping", "Play Me" and "Hey! Illusion" topped the Australian alternative charts, with the videos receiving play on Rage and MTV Australia. The first band ever to play Australia’s Big Day Out festival, The Welcome Mat toured extensively around Australia with the likes of the Hoodoo Gurus, Died Pretty, Buffalo Tom, The Lemonheads, The Wonder Stuff, You Am I, Smudge and Bob Dylan.

The Welcome Mat was formed in Sydney, Australia in 1989 by songwriters Wayne Connolly and Cory Messenger, who had played together in John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong in the late 1980s. Drummer Peter Bennett and bassist David Moss worked with Connolly at Fairlight digital audio company, and were asked to help work on songs demoed on a Tascam four-track recorder. The guitar-based songs were heavily influenced by New Zealand's Flying Nun Records label, as well as US Indie rock performers R.E.M., Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, The Lemonheads, Buffalo Tom, and UK bands The Smiths, The Stone Roses and The Wonderstuff.

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