We appear on this compilation - out very soon
Monty Casino are a 3-piece noisy-ish pop group with a political agenda. We are from Bradford (the jewel in the crown of West Yorkshire) and make music that we would like if we weren't in the band and that we think is original.
We've played with various bands, such as Swound!, Shut Your Eyes and You'll Burst Into Flames, Los Campesinos!, Das Wanderlust, That Fucking Tank, Duels, Buen Chico, The Ape Drape Escape and Sky Larkin.
We have also been played on various radio stations including Radio 1, BCB and Resonance FM.
Here Are Some Nice Things People Have Said About Us On Record (or CD)
"Absolutely Brilliant" - Huw Stephens, Radio 1
DEMO OF THE WEEK in ORGAN - "Ha, what do we have here? A band who fall (downstairs) somewhere between Art Brut and Don Caballero! (well maybe a frantic manic Don Cab?) “Hello Organ, we’re a Bradford based three piece. Someone suggested you’d like our music so here we are!†Damn right! Whoever that was, we thank you (are we really that predictable!?). I could have been a great leader but social circumstances crushed me – only I shall know the truth. Falling upstairs rather than downstairs, never trust an escalator, those moving staircases must be the work of the devil. Ah yes, more “wrong popâ€, more wanderlust, made by ordinary men who maybe could crush you in the palms of their hands – ah yes, stop start repetition. Positive staccato pointy repetition and four fine tracks – is she falling up or down the stairs? Who is Gorbachev? I am Gorbachev... and they’re all scratchy frantic guitars and Northern voices so it maybe a little silly to say they make me think of Servotron – maybe it’s the frantic insect scuttling, that and the Antarctic Monkeyness – ah yes, we like lots, get me to the radio station right now, I have more new music to play you"
“Lots of lovely different words come into my mind when I think of Monty Casino. But to list them all wouldn’t be doing justice to the sound this band creates…they are chaotic, different and impossible to nail down… In short, a veritable kit bag of difference, a dressing up box full of ingenuity and creativity.†– Rob Taylor, mono
"Excellent stuff" - Simon Ashberry, Bradford Beat, BCB 96.7 FM
"Wonderfully DIY and ever so eloquent" - Joel White, 2Much2Young
Here Are Some Nice Things People Have Said About Us Playing Live
"Stunning Experimentalism...Acerbic, Abrasive; Throbbing Gristle in a Fall-fight with Art Brut, in a casino, naturally. With Bells and Theremins on. The World demands odes to the non-glamour of getting old and the existential turmoil of Gorbachev" - mono
"so ironic, surreal and arty that it would make Art Brut want to hang up their winkle pickers and work in Asda" - Sandman Magazine
"Regular readers of mono should probably realise we flippin’ love Monty Casino and this opening performance is one of the best that we’ve seen. The guitars are biting, funk bass dangerously low, Jeds count-ins and backing as mad as ever, while Patrick adlibs their already hilarious lyrics with gems like “I’m wearing shorts and a vest, I’m getting cold!†With their history lessons packed into political punk-funk classics, akin to Gang of Four and the Minutemen, via the experimental pop of the Fall and Art Brut, Monty Casino start the day off with the audience both educated and in hysterics. Ace.†- Adam Simons, mono (on our performance at the Woollen Wig Out Festival)
'monty casino are captivating to the point of a trance... mixing noise, melody and irony into a molotov cocktail of explosive genius. They don't give a shit about genre, normality or poetry and thats why you should definitely give a shit about them.' - Joel, Legendary Bradford Band Spodni Pradlo
"Bradford DIY Popsters are a surprising gem of an act, truly shambolic, energetic and naive enough to be unique... Noisy choppy guitars clatter with unpredictable percussive patterns and distinctly odd bass runs...Pop Nugget Getting old sealed the act that this reviewer was facing a generation gap, however I can't help but smile at the blunt slack-rap delivery of it's quirky lyrics." - mono
"The world of Monty Casino is defiant and interesting" - Sandman Magazine