Monty Oxymoron

Monty Oxymoron is a keyboardist for the English punk rock group the Damned.

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. In 2007, along with Damned bandmate Sensible, he attended a memorial to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett.
In the 1980s, he trained as a psychiatric nurse and has worked as a nurse part time since then.

Discography

Solo

Acorn Beer and Chestnut Wine Tune into Channel Z Tales from the Second Attic Dr. Swastika Pumpanicle's Analysis Living My Life Backwards 18 Symptoms of Musical Insanity Mad Hatti's Reunion With Paradise

''Visions of the Ecstasy Aunt''

with Captain Sensible

''Mad Cows and Englishmen''

with The Dr. Spacetoad Experience

''Time Machine''

with The Damned

Grave Disorder So, Who's Paranoid? Evil Spirits The Rockfield Files

''Darkadelic''

with Sumerian Kyngs

''Post Art Pop Offensive''

Selected appearances

Tim Burness – Finding New Ways To Love
Gilli Bloodaxe – This is Bon Bon Portobello Shuffle: A Testimonial to Boss Goodman and Tribute to the Deviants & Pink Fairies – "Say You Love Me" The Madcap Laughs Again! – "Octopus"
Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock – An Alien Heat
Tim Burness – Interconnected
Blu & Exile – Miles: From an Interlude Called Life
Spirits Burning – ''Evolution Ritual''