Monkeeman

Monkeeman is a power pop quartet improbably split between Belfast and Lower Saxony. Earlier incarnations of the group released three albums and a number of radio-friendly singles in the late 00- After those three releases in 2005, 2007 and 2009, along with accompanying personnel changes,

Monkeeman took a bit of a pause, until an entertaining but complex set of circumstances brought singer/songwriter Ralf Luebke together with three Belfast musicians, all called Marty (Connolly, Kerr The band recorded the five-track „Pressure‟ EP at the Freudenhaus Studios in Berlin with producer Patrik Majer in November that year and played a well-received “Introducing” live session in Ralf‟s ies, notably „Universe‟, which received extensive airplay throughout Europe. and Malone), to form the current line-up in late 2012.

home town of Wilhelmshaven.

The band spent 2013 honing its live sound, playing a number of intimate shows in the UK and Ireland,

including the much-lamented Auntie Annie‟s in Belfast, the Cavern Club in Liverpool and the Mersea In late 2013 and early 2014 the band decamped to Ralf‟s home studio in Wilhelmshaven to finish the 12-track album „Low-Fi Against Low Lifes‟, due for release with Rookie Records in late 2014. In the

summer of 2014 the band played a short run of shows, including sharing the stage with Kaiser Chiefs The band took to the road again in October 2014 to host a number of parties for the album‟s German The album has so far received lots of positive reviews in the German press, some of which are linked below. The album is now released in the UK and Ireland and the group is preparing to play some Island Scooter Festival on Mersea Island.at Féile an Phobail in Belfast as well as playing some smaller European festivals. release, including dos in Berlin and Chemnitz. shows to mark the occasion in early 2015.