Dear God

My name is Anthony Martin and I am a musician from Kent. I've always struggled in one area of music: direction. I've always written sad, introspective songs to use as an exercise in catharsis. I've also always written silly little songs and often use comedy as a defence mechanism which means that I'm often self depricating and attempting humour between songs for live shows.

With the ever-present dichotomy of comedy vs tragedy, and after years of hiding behind my ill conceived and childish comedy moniker "Antmonkey" I decided to put my "serious" songs out under my own name and leave my comedy for the Antmonkey to devour. 

This presented a problem for live performance in a sense that I don't have enough songs to fulfil an entire set of just one of those genres. So, effectively, if you come to an Anthony Martin/Antmonkey show you will get comedy times tragedy. Which hopefully equals awesome. 

I am also active in various other areas of music, I am a part-time promoter, usually for charity and through Antfest/Antfestive/Herofest/TheResurROCKtion I've helped to raise over £40,000 for various charities over the years. Go team.

I also play bass and sing in Beer Pressure, a wedding and functions band playing up and down the country at weddings/parties and in pubs and clubs. Entertainment-tastic!

Band History:

FUS
The Godless Reds
Dogma
The Sunshine Bus
Funplugged
Eight Weeks
Rage Against The Latrine
Release The Hounds
Quarter Past Caring
The Legacy
PhilAnthRopy
Balls Deep Full Throttle
Baubles Deep
Less Than A Reel Big Gold Fish Finger
PEDESTRIAN ZERO

Bands I've Helped Out

Liars Club
Battleska Galactica

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