VIDEO

Knives (Apollo 9 Demo Version)

Recorded at 309 Rehearsal Studios by Matt the engineer,
this is a markedly different version of the E.P. track Knives.

Footage of Apollo 9, the manned mission of March 1969, during which the LM was trialled
for space-worthiness. The intrepid astronauts, McDivvit, Scott and Schweickart, filmed themselves on 16mm camera.

Of course, and for copyright reasons, monmon must again affirm that they are in no way affiliated with NASA

From the Second E.P. "Monkey Fist"

Monkey Fist
The second single. Official release March 9th 2009
This video was created with footage of the trawler
Aberdeen Distributor (876) A211 on fishing trial
around 1960.  This footage can be found at
www.aberdeenships.com

Knives
All original footage is freely available in the public domain:
Louella Gallagher throws knives at her daughters
Connie Ann, 5, and Colleena Sue from a 1950 Universal newsreel.

Superman was (of course) created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1932
The Mechanical Monsters was animated by
Steve Muffati and George Germanetti in 1941
The Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-126 Launch of
November 14, 2008 was the 27th mission to the ISS.

Monmon are in no way endorsed by NASA.

Erato
Another track from the second E.P.
This video features some young 1960s' swingers, possibly your mum and dad,
smoking cigarettes, sporting classic hair-do's and being crazy and free.
Monmon do not condone tobacco. We like the odd drink though, and enjoy the occasional hand of brag.

This EP was recorded by Ed at The Soundmill, Leeds. Note the studio's very nice Fender Bassman.

From the First E.P. "Repetition with Variation "

No1, King of the Slums
Monmon's first studio recording.
This video features Ms Betty Howard,
who was among the highest paid Burlesque dancers of the 1950s.
Known as "The Limousine Girl" she performed in Cuba
at the Compoamar and Marti theaters.
From the Prelinger Archives.

This EP was recorded by Mike Thrussell in his home studio - Hoola Music.
Mike no longer records in Leeds so we can't link you. However his studio was great - It was a cellar.
Not a damp mouldy cellar with worm ends sticking out, nor a dry sandy cellar.
This was, for a day, a monmon cellar and that means comfort...

Saturday Night in the Swim
From the first EP. This video is a re-edit of a Betty Boop short,
in which Cab Calloway sang Minnie the Moocher.
It was made by Max Fleischer in 1932, two years before the passing of the
censorship protocols of the 1930 Hays "Motion Picture Production Code".

Michael
1955 footage of Operation Cue - Nuclear weapons testing
conducted in the Nevada desert. This footage was produced by
the U.S. Federal Civil Defence Administration - ten years after the Trinity tests.
Another Prelinger Archive.

email: dave @ monmon dot co dot uk

"In my opinion Monmon are definitely ones to keep an eye out for this year" Amy Baker  Sandman Magazine March 2009

(Hmmm. thanks Amy. Keep watching this space...)