Monty Are I (formerly known as Monty's Fan Club and Monty) is an American

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band from Cranston, Rhode Island. The band is named after the groups’s former music instructor, Arthur Montanaro. The "Are I" portion of the name is a pun on "RI", Rhode Island's postal abbreviation.

History and achievements

Monty Are I won

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' "Sign My Band" contest on MySpace in 2005. They also won the WBRU "Rock Hunt" in 2002 and the Ernie Ball sponsored "Battle of the Bands" in 2003. The group signed to Stolen Transmission, and were upstreamed to

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. Monty has many national tours under their belt, including five years on Vans Warped Tour, and tours with Just Surrender, Secondhand Serenade, Amber Pacific, Anberlin, Powerspace,

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, My Chemical Romance, Story of the Year,

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, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Monty Are I's song "In This Legacy" is featured in the Xbox/

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games:

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and Tony Hawk's Project 8. Their first album exclusively under Island/DefJam is titled ''Break Through The Silence'' and was released on September 22, 2009. "One in a Million" was the first single, released on August 25, 2009. As of 2017, new plans for the recording of any new Monty Are I material are put on hold as lead vocalist/guitarist Aiello is touring with Thirty Seconds to Mars in support of the 2013 album,

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, contributing bass and keyboards to their live performances. 2019 Reunion On October 16, 2019 the band posted to their Instagram page the date "01.04.20" and announced their plans for a reunion show at The Met in Pawtucket for that date. Less than 48 hours later, the show sold out. The show was then moved to The Strand. On December 6th via the band's Instagram, a new song was announced called "In My Mind."

Discography

EP's

* ''Thanks for the Metal Sign'' (2000) * ''Monty's Fan Club'' EP (2002) * ''The Red Shift'' (2005)

Albums

* ''Wall of People'' (2006, Stolen Transmission/

) * ''Break Through the Silence'' (2009,

)

Singles

* "C-3P0 is Melting" (1999) * "Dublin Waltz" (2006) * "Between The Sheets" (2007) * "One in a Million" (2009) *"My Mind" (2019)

Members

Stevie Aiello Stephen Aiello (born April 30, 1983) is an American songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known for touring and recording with American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He was one of the founding members of Monty Are I, a band he ...

–

Lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

, guitar * Ryan Muir – Guitar, vocals, trumpet * Andrew Borstein –

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, trombone, vocals * Mike Matarese - Bass guitar * Justin Muir –

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References

External links

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{{Authority control Alternative rock groups from Rhode Island American post-hardcore musical groups Island Records artists Musical groups disestablished in 2011 Musical groups reestablished in 2019 Musical groups from Rhode Island People from Cranston, Rhode Island