Monsterboy LIVES, Little Rock AR - Chris Long has always been in a rock band, fronting rock acts over the last decade. Veronica Wirges is a classically trained saxophonist and pianist, with a love for African tribal instrumentation. It is as odd of a match, musically, as you could marry. So that is what they did, quite literally. They met, fell in love, and said I do.
The couple didn't rush right into things, and it was over a decade into their honeymoon before fate pushed them into playing music together. What to expect? A bit of a Frankenstein's Monster, an alchemy of genres that somehow works together and has a life all its own. You'll hear synths, guitars, and saxophones, including a 100 year old 5-foot-tall bass saxophone named Sweet Connie. You'll find their eclectic tastes reflected in the world percussion and EDM elements in their work. All to create an alternative rock sound steeped in the blues of the delta south.
Monsterboy LIVES music is about how two peculiar people, madly in love, are finding themselves and their way through this world together. Their journey speaks to hopeless romantics, band nerds, and creative spirits.
The couple didn't rush right into things, and it was over a decade into their honeymoon before fate pushed them into playing music together. What to expect? A bit of a Frankenstein's Monster, an alchemy of genres that somehow works together and has a life all its own. You'll hear synths, guitars, and saxophones, including a 100 year old 5-foot-tall bass saxophone named Sweet Connie. You'll find their eclectic tastes reflected in the world percussion and EDM elements in their work. All to create an alternative rock sound steeped in the blues of the delta south.
Monsterboy LIVES music is about how two peculiar people, madly in love, are finding themselves and their way through this world together. Their journey speaks to hopeless romantics, band nerds, and creative spirits.
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Our music comes from our life experiences, and at the beginning we had a lot bottled up. When we would find ourselves immersed in a different city or at a festival, often a collection of songs would come to us that reflected the adventures and culture we experienced there. At that time we felt releasing the songs individually and naming the collections after the event was the most authentic way for our audience to experience our music. This was the before times.
Around the time of the pandemic, we incidentally both faced an issue with our adrenal glands, each having a different rare condition. As a result we had to take a break from performing and recording, however we never stopped writing. What has resulted is several collections that seem somewhat unconnected. All snapshots of how our ship went through the rough waters of the last few years, almost losing each other in addition to the experience of living through a pandemic. What we will be sharing in our next releases will be our most honest and raw work to date. The next round of work will reflect the struggle, hope, sadness of different parts of the journey and how in the end we leaned on each other and found a community that helped hold us up.
Thank you to everyone who has reach out, your messages and well wishes have meant the world to us.
Around the time of the pandemic, we incidentally both faced an issue with our adrenal glands, each having a different rare condition. As a result we had to take a break from performing and recording, however we never stopped writing. What has resulted is several collections that seem somewhat unconnected. All snapshots of how our ship went through the rough waters of the last few years, almost losing each other in addition to the experience of living through a pandemic. What we will be sharing in our next releases will be our most honest and raw work to date. The next round of work will reflect the struggle, hope, sadness of different parts of the journey and how in the end we leaned on each other and found a community that helped hold us up.
Thank you to everyone who has reach out, your messages and well wishes have meant the world to us.
chris@monsterboylives.com
