Monty Oxymoron | |
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Birth name | Laurence Burrow |
Born | Cambridge, England | 27 September 1961
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Occupation(s) | Musician, psychiatric nurse |
Instrument(s) | Keyboards, drums,[2] percussion[1] |
Years active | 1980s–present |
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Monty Oxymoron (born Laurence Burrow;[2] 27 September 1961 in Cambridge, England)[1][3] is a keyboardist for the English punk rock group the Damned.[4]
His previous bands include Punk Floyd and Dr. Spacetoad Experience,[1] with Captain Sensible. He released a few solo projects in the 1980s and 2000s.[1] 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.[1] 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.[5] In 2007, along with Damned bandmate Sensible, he attended a memorial to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett.[6]
In the 1980s,[2] he trained as a psychiatric nurse and has worked as a nurse part time since then.[7]