Monkey Business (band)

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..

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 :

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?.

Album Sex and Sport? Never! (2015) features Mike Stern and Gábor Presser.

Discography

Studio albums

  1. Female Slaves And Beer
  2. Saturday Night Is Over (MB Hymnus)
  3. Party Shit
  4. My Friends
  5. Solidarnosc
  6. Boner
  7. Flanger
  8. Compromised
  9. Hi & Stereo
  10. Right People
  11. Silverstrings
  12. Piece Of My Life
  • 2001 - Save the Robots (Sony Music/Bonton)
  1. Save the Robots
  2. Sensation
  3. Purified Juice
  4. Dirty
  5. Batteries & Dynamite
  6. Monkey Town
  7. Blue Umbrella
  8. Old Schooler
  9. John Holmes Was My Platonic Lover
  10. Atheism Is Not A Crime
  11. All the Bitches

  • 2003 - Resistance Is Futile (Sony Music/Bonton)
  1. Resistance Is Futile
  2. We Feel Better Than Jan Hus
  3. Intercooler
  4. Eat Me Oh Mylady
  5. All the Things
  6. Are You Shure?
  7. Harder Than Your Father
  8. Sweet Masturbation
  9. Heaven
  10. Now I’m Here
  11. Am I An Airhead?
  • 2005 - Kiss Me on My Ego (Sony Music)
  1. Chick Flick
  2. Weekend Warrior
  3. Branded
  4. Silence
  5. Golddigger
  6. Flirting High and Low
  7. Slapstick
  8. We Luv Ya
  9. Artistic Suicide
  10. Concrete Illusions
  11. Equilibrium
  12. Kiss Me on My Ego
  13. Don't Touch My Fruit

  • 2007 - Objects of Desire And Other Complications (Sony Music)
  1. Time for the Payback
  2. A Song for All Nations
  3. Allah Took My Tartar Sauce
  4. God Is a Goalie
  5. Kit Bike
  6. Even Eternity Will End One Day
  7. Amp on 11
  8. Ace Kisser
  9. Far Away from Evil Horses
  10. My Day is a Russian Play
  11. Objects of Desire and Other Complications
  • 2009 - Twilight Of Jesters? (Sony Music)
  1. Who killed my libido?
  2. MJ is 50
  3. Kings of discotheque
  4. Nuremberg
  5. ID song (feat. Ashley Slater)
  6. Fatal tempo
  7. Wedding song
  8. London dealing (feat. Ashley Slater)
  9. Twilight of jesters
  10. Gumball (feat. Glenn Hughes)
  11. Pils and girls
  12. History of pathos (feat. Glenn Hughes)
  13. Bob Marley's soccer shoes

  • 2013 - ‘’Happiness Of Postmodern Age'’
  1. Up To Speed Now
  2. Your Girl Looked Like Bill Ward On The Cover Of Sabotage
  3. Banging On The Drum
  4. The Ferry Tale
  5. Heartburn
  6. German Party
  7. Realistic Romantic
  8. My First Dinner
  9. Happiness Of Postmodern Age
  10. Midlife Punk’s Dilemma
  11. Rockin’ At The Lobby Bar
  12. Diamonds And Rust
  13. The Ferry Tale (Kraak and Smaak Boogie Mix)

DVD

Awards

All in the Czech Republic:

External links

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