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Upcoming Show

2011-03-05T22:39:00.000-05:00

We are playing at Cake Shop tomorrow, on Sunday, March 6th!!!
We are the 1st slot so come over early. We are playing at 8pm!
Hope to see you there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Birds of Belize

2011-01-02T21:36:00.000-05:00

Happy January 2nd!

We've got our debut album, Birds of Belize, coming out this year, and we are super excited to be joining Supermartyr records for the digital release. Expect it on iTunes and Amazon in a week or two!

Here's the Supermartyr website: http://www.supermartyr.com/

Here's what the cover look likes:

yay 2011

Napoleon's Wife

2010-10-25T03:55:00.004-04:00

It's been 4 months since I joined Old Monk. (It's hard to believe it's just been 4 months…!) I'm doing my best to learn all their songs, but I realized that I don't know certain details yet, like which songs were written by Josh or Ian. I guess "Napoleon's Wife" was written by Ian. Here is a video of us performing that song at Legion Bar last week.

---AJB edited the video for fun. Thanks!

Tsugumi

Joséphine de Beauharnais

2010-10-21T20:31:00.000-04:00

From the diary of lieutenant Charles:

"Josephine is indeed an exquisite work of art. A powerful woman, romping about behind the back of that dreadful twit, Napoleon. Killing is what I know. She knows much, much more. She used to ask me what I would do if I were King. I'd say that I'd build a statue tall enough to shade a Sunday crowd! That's exactly what Napoleon said. She thought I was different, thought I was a strong, confident man, but I'm not. And killing is all I know. I turned a band of miscreants into an army of soldiers who would follow me to the ends of the earth, who would never mutiny. Sometimes, I wish they would. I shall never forget the last words spoke to me by the great first wife of Napoleon. We made love right under a portrait of that short dunderwhelp. The aggression of our session made it seem all the more exciting, but she was.....away. She told me I lacked depth. And then, in the most flippantly profound way I can imagine a statement to be, she said "when the killing gets old, go back to what you know". Was she to know how those words would affect me? For the rest of my life? I wanted to scream out that it was old, it was old! But it was and still is all I know. Such a powerful woman...

Upcoming Show

2010-10-18T00:42:00.002-04:00

We are playing at Legion Bar tonight!!!

Here are the details:

Monday, October 18th, 2010
8:00pm
Legion Bar
790 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

(L to Graham)

Hope see you tonight!

Also, Brooklyn Rocks posted an article about us.

Old Monk: Brooklyn Garage Rock Band Plays Pre-CMJ Show at Legion Bar in Brooklyn

Thank you!

Upcoming Shows

2010-09-06T00:48:00.002-04:00

We are having 2 shows in Brooklyn!

We are going to play on Tuesday the 7th at Spike Hill. It's FREE!
We made a banner that was supposed to be put on the Spike Hill website, but it was too late:P This is it.

Also, we're going to play on Thursday the 16th at Public Assembly in M.E.A.N.Y FEST 2010. Please come and vote for us!

Check out the Old Monk Newsletter, too.

See you at the shows!

Recent Show at Sullivan Hall -incl.vid!

2010-08-14T19:32:00.001-04:00

Here's some videos from our show.
Someone yelled "Free Bird!" but sorry that we couldn't play your request:P
This song is "Hacksaw Cannibalism".

"Destination Ubiquity"

Our next show will be in September.
During August, we are going to do some recording.

Recent Show at Pianos

2010-08-09T23:27:00.001-04:00

We had fun at our show at Pianos on Sunday!
Thank you for coming!

We played with 2 bands who are on tour.

Enlou from Cincinnati, OH

We Barbarians from Long Island, CA

The next Old Monk show is on Wednesday, the 11th at Sullivan Hall.
See you there!

Upcoming Shows

2010-08-07T15:59:00.008-04:00

Hello world,

We're going to play on Sunday, the 8th at Pianos,
and on Wednesday, the 11th at Sullivan Hall.
Come to see us!

Details are in the Old Monk News Letter 8/4/2010

- If you want to subscribe to the Old Monk News Letter, please email us!

theoldmonkband@gmail.com

Here's a photo from our rehearsal on Friday: