Monty Oxymoron
{{Short description|British musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Monty Oxymoron
| background = solo_singer
| image = Monty_Oxymoron_2014.jpg
| caption = Monty Oxymoron performing with the Damned in Copenhagen, 2014
| birth_name = Laurence Burrow
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|09|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cambridge, England
| instrument = Keyboards, drums, percussion
| genre = {{hlist|Rock|psychedelic rock|jazz}}
| occupation = Musician, psychiatric nurse
| label = {{hlist|Acid Tapes|Bendi}}
| associated_acts = {{hlist|The Damned|Captain Sensible’s Punk Floyd|The Dr. Spacetoad Experience|Sumerian Kyngs}}
| years_active = 1980s–present|
}}
Monty Oxymoron (born Laurence Burrow;{{Cite web|url=https://burninghousepress.com/2020/01/08/vision-by-monty-oxymoron/|title=Vision by Monty Oxymoron|date=8 January 2020|website=Burning House Press|author=ReVerse Butcher |accessdate=16 November 2020}} 27 September 1961 in Cambridge, England){{Cite web|url=http://www.montyoxymoron.com/|title=Monty Oxymoron – Official Website of the Musician / Artist and Keyboard player of The Damned|website=Montyoxymoron.com|accessdate=13 May 2020}}[http://www.damned12.freeserve.co.uk/monty2_int.htm An interview with... Monty May 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113162154/http://www.damned12.freeserve.co.uk/monty2_int.htm |date=13 January 2014 }} is a keyboardist for the English punk rock group the Damned.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3563416/The-Damned-at-Carling-Academy-Islington-London.html|title=The Damned at Carling Academy, Islington, London|date=20 November 2008|website=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|accessdate=13 May 2020}}
Biography
His previous bands include Punk Floyd and Dr. Spacetoad Experience, with Captain Sensible. He released a few solo projects in the 1980s and 2000s. He joined the Damned in early 1996 and continues to tour and record with them. Monty also works as keyboardist and percussionist with the Sumerian Kyngs and as keyboardist with Tim Burness. He has spoken of love of psychedelic music, whose influence he claims to have heard in pre-Oxymoron Damned albums beginning with 1979's Machine Gun Etiquette.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPCaCCa6BhA The Damned Monty Oxymoron Interview @ EXIT 2017]. YouTube. 8 July 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2021. In 2007, along with Damned bandmate Sensible, he attended a memorial to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett.[https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/photo-of-syd-barrett-tribute-madcaps-l-and-monty-oxymoron-news-photo/85357400 Photo of SYD BARRETT TRIBUTE – MADCAP'S L and Monty OXYMORON and CAPTAIN SENSIBLE]. Getty Images. 10 May 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
In the 1980s, he trained as a psychiatric nurse and has worked as a nurse part time since then.{{Cite web|url=https://parklifedc.com/2018/09/27/interview-monty-oxymoron-of-the-damned-black-cat-10-20-18/|title=Interview: Monty Oxymoron|date=27 September 2018|website=Parklife DC|author=Mickey McCarter|accessdate=16 November 2020}}
Discography
=Solo=
- Acorn Beer and Chestnut Wine (1984, Acid Tapes) (as Monty the Moron)
- Tune into Channel Z (1984, Acid Tapes) (as Monty the Moron)
- Tales from the Second Attic (1984, Acid Tapes) (as Monty the Moron)
- Dr. Swastika Pumpanicle's Analysis (1986, Acid Tapes) (as Monty the Moron)
- Living My Life Backwards (2005, Oxymusic)
- 18 Symptoms of Musical Insanity (2006, Bendi) (as Monty the Moron)
- Mad Hatti's Reunion With Paradise (2007, Oxymusic)
- Visions of the Ecstasy Aunt (2010, Monty Oxymoron)
=with Captain Sensible=
- Mad Cows and Englishmen (1996, Scratch)
=with The Dr. Spacetoad Experience=
- Time Machine (1996, Blueprint)
=with The Damned=
- Grave Disorder (2001, Nitro)
- So, Who's Paranoid? (2008, The English Channel)
- Evil Spirits (2018, Search and Destroy / Spinefarm)
- The Rockfield Files (2020, Search and Destroy / Spinefarm)
- Darkadelic (2023, earMUSIC)
=with Sumerian Kyngs=
- Post Art Pop Offensive (2016, 2Right Records)
=Selected appearances=
- Tim Burness – Finding New Ways To Love (2004, Expanding Consciousness)
- Gilli Bloodaxe – This is Bon Bon (2010, Bloodaxe)
- Portobello Shuffle: A Testimonial to Boss Goodman and Tribute to the Deviants & Pink Fairies (2010, Easy Action) – "Say You Love Me" (with Captain Sensible)
- The Madcap Laughs Again! (2010, MOJO Magazine free CD) – "Octopus" (with Captain Sensible)
- Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock – An Alien Heat (2018, Gonzo Multimedia)
- Tim Burness – Interconnected (2018, Expanding Consciousness)
- Blu & Exile – Miles: From an Interlude Called Life (2020, Dirty Science)
- Spirits Burning – ''Evolution Ritual (2021, Noh Poetry)
{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/710800-Monty-Oxy-Moron?type=Credits&subtype=Instruments-Performance&filter_anv=0|title=Monty Oxy Moron – Instruments & Performance|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=16 November 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/710800-Monty-Oxy-Moron?anv=Monty+The+Moron&filter_anv=1|title=Monty The Moron – Releases|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=16 November 2020}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.montyoxymoron.com/ Monty Oxymoron Official Website]
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Category:The Damned (band) members
Category:English rock keyboardists
Category:Musicians from Brighton and Hove
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