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Monkey Business in 2010
Monkey Business is a Czech funk band. It is one of the projects of its leader Roman Holý, the other being J.A.R..
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History
The group teamed up at the beginning of 1999. Singer Matěj Ruppert came from the group Leguar GR, Oldřich Krejčoves played in Pan Pot, Pavel Mrázek and Martin Houdek came from Dorota B.B. and Tonya Graves came from dance oriented Liquid Harmony. Their debut record, Why Be In When You Could Be Out, was released in 2000. It includes such hit songs as Party Shit, My Friends, the slow Piece of my Life, and only one song sung in Czech (Hi & Stereo).
Members
In 2005 :
- Matěj Ruppert - voc
- Tonya Graves - voc
- Oldřich Krejčoves - guit
- Ondřej Brousek - kb
- Roman Holý - kb, voc
- Pavel Mrázek - bg
- Martin Houdek - drums
Notable guests
Percussionist Imran Musa Zangi is a regular guest. Other star guests featured on the band's records include Fred Wesley and David Williams (Why be in...). More guests followed on Save The Robots: Robert Howard, Raymond Davis, Clarence Haskins, Dennis Chambers and Fred Wesley.
On Resistance Is Futile, the guest list was expanded even more with the likes of Hiram Bullock, Iva Bittová, Jiří Stivín, Roman Dragoun, Filip Jelínek, František Kop, Radka Kaspar, Jaroslav Halíř, František Tomšíček, Tomáš Křemenák, Nada Weppereová (vocals), Petr Dopita and Michael Fišer .
Kiss Me On My Ego features Hiram Bullock, David Sanborn and Glenn Hughes.
Freak Power singer Ashley Slater has supported some of 2008 Monkey Business live shows and as a guest vocal he appears (as same as Glenn Hughes again) on the Twilight of Jesters?.Discography
Studio albums
- 2000 - Why Be In When You Could Be Out (Sony Music/Bonton)
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- Female Slaves And Beer
- Saturday Night Is Over (MB Hymnus)
- Party Shit
- My Friends
- Solidarnosc
- Boner
- Flanger
- Compromised
- Hi & Stereo
- Right People
- Silverstrings
- Piece Of My Life
- 2001 - Save the Robots (Sony Music/Bonton)
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- Save the Robots
- Sensation
- Purified Juice
- Dirty
- Batteries & Dynamite
- Monkey Town
- Blue Umbrella
- Old Schooler
- John Holmes Was My Platonic Lover
- Atheism Is Not A Crime
- All the Bitches
- 2003 - Resistance Is Futile (Sony Music/Bonton)
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- Resistance Is Futile
- We Feel Better Than Jan Hus
- Intercooler
- Eat Me Oh Mylady
- All the Things
- Are You Shure?
- Harder Than Your Father
- Sweet Masturbation
- Heaven
- Now I’m Here
- Am I An Airhead?
- 2005 - Kiss Me on My Ego (Sony Music)
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- Chick Flick
- Weekend Warrior
- Branded
- Silence
- Golddigger
- Flirting High and Low
- Slapstick
- We Luv Ya
- Artistic Suicide
- Concrete Illusions
- Equilibrium
- Kiss Me on My Ego
- Don't Touch My Fruit
- 2007 - Objects of Desire And Other Complications (Sony Music)
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- Time for the Payback
- A Song for All Nations
- Allah Took My Tartar Sauce
- God Is a Goalie
- Kit Bike
- Even Eternity Will End One Day
- Amp on 11
- Ace Kisser
- Far Away from Evil Horses
- My Day is a Russian Play
- Objects of Desire and Other Complications
- 2009 - Twilight Of Jesters? (Sony Music)
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- Who killed my libido?
- MJ is 50
- Kings of discotheque
- Nuremberg
- ID song (feat. Ashley Slater)
- Fatal tempo
- Wedding song
- London dealing (feat. Ashley Slater)
- Twilight of jesters
- Gumball (feat. Glenn Hughes)
- Pils and girls
- History of pathos (feat. Glenn Hughes)
- Bob Marley's soccer shoes
DVD
- 2004 - Lazy Youth Old Beggars
- 2007 - Peeing With The Proletariat
Awards
All in the Czech Republic:
- 2000 Rock & Pop Volby rocku - objev domácí
- 2001 Ceny Akademie populární hudby (Objev roku a Skupina roku)
- 2001 Rock & Pop Volby rocku - skupina roku domácí
- 2003 Anděl - album roku pop (Resistance Is Futile)
- 2004 Anděl - DVD roku (Lazy Youth Old Beggars)
- 2006 Anděl - Nejlepší zvuková nahrávka a Album roku pop & dance (Kiss Me On My Ego)
External links
Categories:- Czech funk musical groups
- Pop music groups
- European musical group stubs
- Czech Republic stubs
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