Terry Munday’s work has oftenbeen
described as an eclectic mixof raw Blues, rhythmic
Latin andhaunting melody.
“How can I pigeonhole what I do?”is the question he
often asks.
In fact, from many threads of
experience is Munday’s musicalmantel woven.From the hard rock ofBlood Simple - the band
formedwith ex-Clash drummer
TerryChimes in 1989, which producedit’s self-titled album that year -to the
melancholy flamencosummers spent in Andalucia.
As a mere youth Munday was playing guitar
with Sal Paradise, managed by Tony Gordon of Culture Club fame. The career of
these ‘80s glam rockers was cut short by the tragic death of vocalist/lyricist Phil Turner in 1988. The band reinvented itself as the above Blood Simple,
adding vocalist Pete Valente, grinding out a riff-laden, crypto-gothic wall of
sound.
In 1990 Munday began touring the World. Tours of
Europe, North America and the Far East, plus an album for Pony-Canyon in Tokyo,
meant that Munday had truly gone international.
As part of a quest for a more diverse and worldly vocabulary he spent the winter
of 1998 in the Middle East, and the summer of 1999 in Spain, adding a Moorish
vibe to much of his work. At the end of 1999 he released his first instrumental
collection, Eurasian,
followed in 2001 by the more accomplished
Liberty Project,
and The Human Zone in 2004.
In addition to his musical work Munday has acquired an MA in Politics and is a
qualified college lecturer in that subject. He is currently based in his native
London.