Monto

Dave Barbarossa enjoyed major success playing drums as a key member of Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow. This new project unites him with vocalist and guitarist Daniel Stewart, a member of experimental Sian Alice Group's live band.

It’s an unusual and powerful blend that has shades of Nirvana or Queen’s of the Stone Age. Barbarossa means “red beard” but it’s Stewart who’s actually the red-bearded one. In the half-light of the sweaty Bowery he looks uncannily like Vincent van Goch before he cut his ear off, especially when he periodically breaks from his bluesy melodies to bark some impenetrable madness like a cross between Mark E Smith and the sort of gentleman of the road one might bump into in Camden Town in the early hours of Sunday morning. Such is the impressive barrage of sound the pair can muster, it’s hard to pick out many lyrics, though titles such as In The Ground and The Hangman’s Neck, suggest they will be every bit as disturbing as the gleam in the singer’s eyes.