Monty Oxymoron
Musician / Keyboardist of The Damned
Monty Oxymoron (best known as keyboard player with progressive Punk Rock band the Damned), is a multi-instrumentalist whose musical range is as diverse as the instruments he plays: piano, organ, keyboards, drums, guitar, bass guitar, clarinet, marimba, all kinds of hand percussion…he has also been known to play objects not designed as musical instruments! This diversity is amply displayed on his BandCamp site and his YouTube channel. There, British Psychedelia and Prog Rock (Canterbury style) rub shoulders with Punk and New Wave, Ambient, Classical and Jazz styles (both compositions and free improvisation). Monty is also a writer, an artist, a trained Art Psychotherapist and a Psychiatric Nurse specialising in Dementia Care awareness, Person Centred Care and care plan design.
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Monty has worked with:
Dr Space Toad Experience
Sumerian Kyngs
Captain Sensible's "Punk Floyd"
The Damned
Rod Paton
Dee Byrne
Tim Burness
The Vitamin B12
"In came the maniacal keyboard skills of the inimitable Monty Oxymoron. Monty’s wired antics and irrepressible energy added another dimension to the band’s stage shows." - Peter Doggett (notes from "Tikki Nightmare" DVD, 2002)
"...a brilliant performer with a cartoon like persona... he combines frantic energy with his obvious love of playing, blending together the archetypes of mad scientist, nutty professor, nineteenth century genius and cartoon punk." - Andrew Phillip Smith - (from the foreword to Monty's "The Cosmic Brain Explodes" 2021)
"Monty Oxymoron is a trued English eccentric, a criminally under-sung musical treasure and keeper of essential underground activities." - Daniel Spicer 2021 (See "More About Monty")
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Quotes:
"Monty is the Damned’s secret weapon!" - Charlie Harper"In came the maniacal keyboard skills of the inimitable Monty Oxymoron. Monty’s wired antics and irrepressible energy added another dimension to the band’s stage shows." - Peter Doggett (notes from "Tikki Nightmare" DVD, 2002)
"...a brilliant performer with a cartoon like persona... he combines frantic energy with his obvious love of playing, blending together the archetypes of mad scientist, nutty professor, nineteenth century genius and cartoon punk." - Andrew Phillip Smith - (from the foreword to Monty's "The Cosmic Brain Explodes" 2021)
"Monty Oxymoron is a trued English eccentric, a criminally under-sung musical treasure and keeper of essential underground activities." - Daniel Spicer 2021 (See "More About Monty")
Contact Monty
Monty Oxymoron - Music
Hear more and buy at montyoxymoron.bandcamp.com
Monty Oxymoron - Discography
Most of Monty's releases are available through Bandcamp|
Visions of the Ecstasy Aunt (2010) AWAL Available at Bandcamp Mad Hatti's Reunion With Paradise (2007) Available at Bandcamp Living My Life Backwards (2005) Limited Release Available at Bandcamp 18 Symptoms of Musical Insanity (2005) as Monty the Moron Bendi Records Tales from the Second Attic (1985) as Monty the Moron Acid Tapes Available at Bandcamp Tune into Channel Z (1984) as Monty the Moron Acid Tapes Available at Bandcamp Acorn Beer and Chestnut Wine (1984) as Monty the Moron Acid Tapes Available at Bandcamp Danger Monty At Work (1984) as Monty the Moron Acid Tapes Available at Bandcamp |
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WITH THE DAMNED
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Darkadelic 2023 CD/Vinyl e.a.r. Music EDEL A Night of a Thousand Vampires (2022) CD/BluRay e.a.r Music The Rockfield Files (2020) Spinefarm Vinyl EP Evil Spirits (2018) Spinefarm Records 35th Anniversary Tour Live (2012) 4worlds Media Nation Fit For Heroes/Time (2008) (Vinyl single on The English Channel) So Who's Paranoid? (2008) (Monty wrote "Nature's Dark Passion" and "Since I Met You" on this album) The English Channel The Damned Return To The 100 Club (2007) Liveherenow Little Miss Disaster (2005) Lively Arts Grave Disorder (2001) Nitro Records |
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DVDs/BLU-RAY
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A Night of a Thousand Vampires (2022) CD/BluRay e.a.r Music M.G.E.25 (2005) ILC Music Tiki Nightmare (2002) Salvo Sound & Vision |
OTHER APPEARANCES
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Interconnected - Tim Burness (2018) Bandcamp (Electric Energy Video on YouTube) Portobello Shuffle (Pink Fairies Tribute CD) (2010) Track 7 "Say You Love Me" (with Cpt. Sensible - Monty played drums) Easy-Action The Madcap Laughs Again! (2010) Track 7 "Octopus" (with Cpt. Sensible) Free with MOJO Magazine March 2010 This is Bon Bon - Gilly Bloodaxe (2010) with Tony Gill, Adrian Newton and Geoffe Hearne Bloodaxe Vision On - Tim Burness (2007) Expanding Consciousness Finding New Ways To Love - Tim Burness (2004) Expanding Consciousness Mad Cows and Englishmen - Captain Sensible (1996) Scratch Records Time Machine - The Dr. Spacetoad Experience (1996) Blueprint |
Monty Oxymoron - Writing
Monty's Substack (as Laurence Burrow)Monty writes some thoughts on the state of nursing in
“Is Nursing an 'Impossible Profession' today?” (July 2023)
Monty's book, a Neo-gnostic treatise on the Eternal Truth, is now available from most bookshops (ISBN-10 : 190683444X ISBN-13 : 978-1906834449) including Amazon.co.uk and elsewhere.
Monty Oxymoron - Digital Art
Monty Oxymoron - Photos
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Monty Oxymoron On The Web
The Damned Official Website
Contact Monty
Please do not email Monty about matters relating to The Damned (autographs etc). He cannot help you with this. Instead for all queries relating to The Damned please email AskTheDamned@gmail.comMonty currently resides in Brighton (UK). But he travels to wherever his services are needed. To prevent Monty's email address getting picked up by spam bots and getting overrun with junk his email address is not listed on this page but can be found via this contact form