The Monaros

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‘There’s an amazing five-song run midway, all of them, all of them mind, potential mainstream radio hit singles.’ ***** Venue Magazine album review

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The Monaros play classy, finely crafted POP music inspired by the sultry and seductive tones of Aero Monaro. They are four brothers and a sister born and raised in the West Country and now based in Bristol. Stunning live shows have attracted RAVE reviews wherever they play and their debut album ‘The Monaros Family Album’ has dazzled listeners with its POP brilliance. The band have received an approving nod from country-acid house legends Alabama 3. Their guitar hero Rock Freebase had one listen to The Monaros song ‘Dancing Tony’, declared it ‘F*cking Wicked’

‘A great debut – strong songs, classic arrangements and a fantastic sultry voice.’ BBC Introducing www.bbc.co.uk/bristol  

'You don’t get many bands with a pretty woman in a cocktail dress purveying such immaculate, luxuriant swoon-pop. Bristol has a secret to cherish.’ Venue Magazine www.venue.co.uk  

'F*ckin' Wicked' Alabama 3’s Rock Freebase www.alabama3.co.uk

Special thanks to Matt Sampson for all of his help and support in recording the album, Toby Farrow for the photos, and the volunteers at The West Somerset Railway for putting up with us making a nuisance of ourselves running around their tracks!!

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Rhinestone Cowboy on the way down to Bude on radio 2, 1977 Elvis in concert on the telly, Evil Knievel stunt cycle; Carry On Don’t Lose Your Head on HTV Sunday Matinee; 1980 Blondie on TOTP, Regatta de Blanc; Dog Eat Dog on TOTP, Absolute Madness, Chart Hits 81 part 2 - free when you buy Chart Hits 81 part 1, Never Mind The Bollocks West Buckland Youth Club, This Charming Man Youth Afloat Festival Disco Poole, Stop Making Sense, Live Aid! Bowie, Queen and the Quo!, The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, Power Corruption and Lies, A Momentary Lapse of Reason,Wembley Stadium, A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, Doolittle; Roy Harper somewhere in Gloucester, PJ Harvey Tangiers Youth Centre Taunton, The Alarm Colston Hall, Manic Street Preachers Priory Social Club Taunton, Bandwagonesque, Sonic Youth/Pavement Rainbow Bristol; Glastonbury The Family Cat, Cud, Tom Jones, Reading Boo! Radleys, New Order, Chumbawamba and Eddie Izzard, Of Walking Abortion;The Hudsucker Proxy; Underworld Cowgirl; To Be A Somebody, Pulp at Glastonbury, Gattaca, Dogme, Come On Die Young; Jude Law’s hair in The Talented Mr Ripley, Leftism; Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Werner Herzog, Kim Fowley Dirty Water Club, John Martyn Colson Hall, John Pope-Hennessy’s Donatello:Scupltor; Bellini and the East, Smiley’s People, John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears, James Miller’s Passion of Michel Foucault

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