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Monophobia
monophobia.com
www.starpolish.com/monophobia
| Year Formed |
1992 |
| Hometown |
London,
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| Genre(s) |
Alternative, Dance, Pop, Folk, Rock |
| Style(s) |
Adult Contemporary, Melodic Rock, Melodic Modern Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Art-Rock, 21st century folk, Alternative Post-Punk Pop Inde rock, Brit Rock, Indie, Mid-Fi, BASEMENT GARAGE ROCK, Britpop, Modern British Beat, Post-Modern British Beat, indierock, simple music, Rock/pop, Modern Pop/rock, Alt-Power-Pop, Modern, melodic guitar rock, Indie-pop, indie pop, Rock-Folk / Folk-Rock, Melodic Guitar Based Rock, British, Brit Pop, Rockin' Dance, Garage Pop Rock, Garage Alternative Pop Rock, Indie Rooted Alternative Rock, Indie/College Pop, Alternative Guitar Rock |
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Artist Statement
Monophobia are based in London and perform regularly in the West End and in the more notorious clubs around North London.
Current line-up comprises Tony (voice & guitar), Phil (bass & synth), Zizi (keyboard & voice) and Nimesh (guitar).
Bio
Monophobia was originally conceived by Philip Quinton and Bryn Rosenwould, two drunken media students who met in Watford in 1991, and had nothing in common, not even music. Phil couldn't play an instrument and neither of them could sing. Only a small collection of embarrassing recordings exists to mark the project's early existence. The duo parted company in 1994 and Monophobia was silent until 1997 when Phil met Tony Longworth, a musician from Shepherd's Bush with a nameless band and a handful of cool tunes, and Monophobia was reinvented as a kicking live underground group. Several other bandmembers have come and gone since then but keyboardist Zizi Schuh joined last year and stayed on to become an active core bandmember, and guitarist Nimesh Hathiwala sticks loyally by the band even though Phil is a total bastard and keeps picking on him.
The band have recently had one song - "Remnant Head" - released on a compilation by UK co-operative Institutionalized Records and are now in the progress of recording their first true album.
Influences/Similar To
The Charlatans, The Wannadies, Ash, The Bluetones, The Stone Roses, Oasis, Joy Division, Happy Mondays
Band Members
Nimesh Hathiwala | | INSTRUMENTS: | Guitar | | | DESCRIPTION: | Nimesh, a Britpop-mad guitarist of Indian descent, is from Leicester, England. He started rehearsing with the band in 2001 and finally got his stage debut in January 2002, giving the group a slightly stadium rock feel. Monophobia is his first band. |
Tony Longworth| | INSTRUMENTS: | Voice, guitar | | | DESCRIPTION: | A distinctive singer/songwriter of Irish descent from Shepherd's Bush, west London, England. Has played in many bands since 1991 including Form Field, River's Edge, The Honeymoon's Over, Tremens, Free State Prophets (with Phil) and Monophobia. Simple songwriting with loads of character. An amazing guitarist when the spotlight is off him. |
Phil Quinton| | INSTRUMENTS: | Bass, synth | | | DESCRIPTION: | Born in Hampshire in the early '70s and grew up in Eston, near Middlesbrough during the '80s. Failed to learn any instruments but idolised Animal from The Muppet Show. In 1990 started joke band Kurre'ed Infancy as drummer then bassist. Then, as a student in Watford, started a studio-based joke band (using sequencers) in 1992 and called it Monophobia. The band became a minor cult success among Watford students. Fast Forward. After a year in Madrid learning bass with a Spanish band in 1996 I moved to London in 1997 where I met Tony and spent the next five years trying to get Monophobia started, and playing with various other dodgy bands. |
Zizi Schuh| | INSTRUMENTS: | Keyboard, voice | | | DESCRIPTION: | I started playing the piano at the tender age of 10 and to the agony of my parents my favourite song was Beethoven's "For Elise" for quite a while. Then I played in our school band and several big bands in Munich and my favourite song became "The Muppet Show" theme. After finishing my A-levels 2000 in Munich I decided to adopt a more rock 'n' roll lifestyle and moved to London (to discover it is kind of hard to afford a r'n'r life here, but anyway...) and did a one year course at a music college. By a lucky coincidence I responded to an ad in the Loot and stumbled upon the rest of Monophobia. |
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