LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Monty Are I Official Website) - With three Vans Warped tours under their belt, and roadwork over the past year with a horde of groups including fellow Stolen Transmission band Permanent Me, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, RX
Bandits and Story of the Year – there is no question that action rock group Monty Are I is one of the hardest-working bands on the circuit today, as their debut album WALL OF PEOPLE (released August 2006) continues to win over new fans and programmers across the country.
A week of shows with Over It, The Summer Obsession, and Last Conservative will begin January 29th at The Sets in Tempe, and wrap up on February 7th at Soapbox Laundrolounge in Wilmington, North Carolina. The support roster for Monty Are I will shift to Over It, Last Conservative, and Dear and the Headlights for another run of shows starting February 11th at First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, and ending February 22nd at Launch Pad in Albuquerque.
This is the first major tour leg for road-loving band Monty Are I since they headed out in November-December with Permanent Me, Dropping Daylight, Summer Obsession, and the Outline on the Purevolume Sponsored Tour. Purevolume is the premiere website for showcasing rising rock bands and gets plenty of attention on Monty Are I's MySpace site, which has logged 253,000 profile views, and more than 556,000 total plays of tracks "Dublin Waltz," "In This Legacy," "Something In the Way," "Castle Bound," and "Between The Sheets," which has been featured in Tony Hawk's Project 8.
WALL OF PEOPLE was recorded with producer/engineer Matt Squire (Panic! At The Disco, Permanent Me, Cute Is What We Aim For, Boys Like Girls) at his Baltimore studio, along with producer/engineers Mitch Allan and Gavin Castleton. In addition to five newly recorded tracks, the album includes six tracks remixed by Squire from the band's self-financed indie EP The Red Shift. The Providence Journal called the EP "a triumphant kick in the sack with some balls-out rock exuding the breathless exuberance of Steve Aiello and Ryan Muir accompanied by dynamic percussion and blistering guitars."
Monty Are I – comprised of Steve Aiello (vocals, lead guitar), Mike Matarese (bass), Andrew Borstein (keyboards, synthesizer, trombone, sequencing), and identical twins Justin (drums) and Ryan Muir (vocals, trumpet, guitar) – have been friends since high school in Cranston, Rhode Island, when the first incarnations of the band were assembled. Similar to Lynyrd Skynyrd and others, the band's name is homage to a high school teacher.
In 2003, Monty won the onlinerockfest.com competition (Best Band and Best Song Composition). They were selected by a staff of industry professionals (Warped Tour Production Company) as winners of the Ernie Ball MusicMan Battle of the Bands 7, and went on to play dates on the Vans Warped Tours of 2004, 2005, and 2006. They are two-time winners of the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll as "Break Through Act" of 2004, and "No Longer Local" band of 2005. They were a finalist in Buzzplay.com's Best Unsigned Band in America contest, and were tapped by Alternative Press as "Unsigned Band of the Month" in the "Bands to Watch Out For" section (February 2005). They were the overall winner (from more than 10,000 submissions) in Takeover Records' "Sign My Band Contest," as determined by online votes.
Monty Are I is blessed with a dedicated Street Team of over 1,400 members spread worldwide from New England to Australia, plus friends they've made on myspace.com, and visitors to their own website (montyarei.com). Monty Are I now stand ready to take their exhilarating 'action rock' – Bigger! Faster! More! – straight to the top of the charts.
