Princess Liar Sextet 2025 L-R Oscar France, Jules Pascoe, Alex Roper, Tom Of Coburg, Helena Plazza, Julie Montan Photo by: Trafforazzi

LOCAL CELEBRITIES, ELDERS & SOUL LEGENDS:
BETTY HARRIS,SYL JOHNSON,JOE LALLY,ALAN BROUGH,CLEM BASTOW,KUTCHA EDWARDS,THE TIVOLI LOVELIE'S AND MORE

In Dreams U R Roy Photo Shoot for The Saturday Age at Bakehouse Photo by: Penny Stephens

Julie with Betty Harris at Chill City

Julie with Syl Johnson at the Corner Hotel

Julie with Joe Lally of Fugazi. Your Animal supported Joe at The Tote

Kutcha Edwards, 'In Dreams U R Roy'

Clem Bastow as Cher in the 'Last Greatest Show On Earth' Photo by: Tommy Spender

Zoom production meeting Julie Montan, Albert Mansfield Hudson, Arie Hirsch, Stephanie Planko, Steve Cook, Joelle Baudet-Cook

Julie with Alan Brough on set for '1999' music video

Julie Montan and Brigitte Hart Photo by: Pierre Baroni. Julie's placard is in the permanent collection of the Australian Music Vault, Victorian Arts Centre

Dan Kelly as Roy Orbison 'In Dreams', The Toff In Town Photo by" Nicci Reid

Local celebrity punters including Roman Tucker and Erica Dunn at Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts

Celebrity 'Mario's' appearance by Andrew Phillipp and Mario Maccarrone at Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts

Michelle Boyde, Glam Fran and baby Raven pre-production costume, hair, make-up for 'The Last Greatest Show On Earth'

RUBBING 2 STICKS TOGETHER MAKES...

Dan Luscombe's 'Ace Of Spades Quiff' at The Last Greatest Show On Earth Photo by: Tommy Spender

Hannah Fox DJing at the Last Greatest Show On Earth Photo by: Hannah Rockliffe

Jon Michell at Carport Concert to End All Carport Concerts

Muppets side of stage Photo by: Tim Chmielewski

Marcus Rechsteiner as Iggy Pop in The Last Greatest Show On Earth Photo by: Carbie Warbie

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!

Julie at The Retreat supporting Jazmine Mary (NZ)

Tom Lyngcoln as Freddie Mercury at the Last Greatest Show On Earth

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On set of 'Not In The Game' music video. Photo by: Sam Orchard

Your Animal performing in bamboo cage at 'Howl At Your Super Wild Animal', Northcote Social Club

Your Animal recording 'Peacock Dove Eagle' Live at the Toff In Town

Soft Rubbish Collage

Soft Rubbish Collage

Half way there, livin on a prayer
​CV Highlights 

1990-2000 Julie left high school and joined the Shopfront Theatre For Young People, Sydney; toured Sth East Asia.
1994 VCA Drama, Melbourne.
1998 Street Theatre performance “Where The Hell Is Ralph?”, Edinburgh Festival.
1999 Theatre performance “Where The Hell is Ralph?" Directed by Steven Helper, Newtown, Sydney.
2000 NEIS program and started T-shirt/performance art label "How's Ya Father?"; screen printed provocative T-Shirt , from Julie’s own graphics painted on canvas.
2001 'Avant Card - Free Postcards - Australia Wide' awarded Julie printing and national distribution of her (1st) painting 'Sorry'. The image depicted John Howard as a Red Coat in a boat, being sent back to where he came from, by a Koori Fella standing at Kurnell, Botany Bay.
2001 First T-shirt collection for sale at Museum of Contemporary Art Store, Circular Quay, Sydney.
2001 Julie's paintings and T-shirts featured in the exclusive boutique of Belinda Seper's 'The Corner Shop' in Paddington where Julie was invited to create the Spring Window “Waking Up”; a highly coveted honour in the fashion world of early 2000’s Sydney.
2001 Julie began to fuse performance and music elements into her art/fashion label and staged pivotal events for Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Mercedes Australian Fashion Week: “The Artist & Her Models” was a heavily photographed show and The Australian Newspaper with the Breast Cancer Foundation’s patron Sarah Murdoch (nee O’Hare), ran a fundraiser auctioning the photographs taken. Sarah bid the highest and won the photo of Julie’s model wearing “Unwrap The Box”; a Pink Ribbon on pink knickers.
2001-2004 Julie featured in Maggie Alderson's fashion column in the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as The Age, The Australian, a string of glossy magazines and street press.
2002 She wrote the soundtrack for her runway show “It’s All About Humani-T” for Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival Independent Day program.
2003 Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival ‘Arts Program’ joint event with Crossley & Scott Gallery “Conspiracy Theory and Curing Yourself of Insanity”; Julie’s paintings hung in the gallery while on the street below Julie as ‘feminist priestess’ rapped in harmony with cast of choir singers who performed wearing the collection of T-shirts themed on oppression of women in historical interpretations of sacred religious texts.
2003 Michelle Griffin interviewed Julie for a feature story “Fashion Statements” in the Sunday Age. 2004 Julie created controversy with her LGBTQI cast in “Wet T-Shirt Competition: Ladies Vs Bitches”, for which she was interviewed for the Arts Program ‘Artery’ hosted by Fenella Kernebone on Triple J, talking about the titillating performance at Ding Dong Lounge which was part fashion runway, part rock concert and part theatrical spectacular was a sold out show.
2008/9 She wrote the libretto for ‘Scarlet I, II & III’: Guerrilla theatre projects; each collaboration with a unique cast of dancers, musicians, designers, directors, that performed in 3 different carparks around Melbourne and advertised by word of mouth only.
2009 Performed with soul legend Syl Johnson at The Corner Hotel.
2009 Performed with soul queen Betty Harris at Chill City and the Corner Hotel.
2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival Your Animal with Beaches, My Disco and Brain Children DJ’s played 2 shows at the Forum and Becks Rumpus Room.
2009 Your Animal produced 2 albums ‘Peacock, Dove, Eagle’ Live at the Toff In Town and unreleased ‘Killing It Softly’ engineered by Mikey Young.
2009 Melbourne Youth Justice Centre - Parkville - Sessional Arts Facilitator "Scrapbook Sessions".
2010 WUV were an experimental, one-show band, whose line-up were Julie, Geryon and Gray Taylor.
2010 Julie staged special events for charity; including: ‘In Dreams U R Roy’ with members of the Black Arm Band for Close The Gap/OXFAM.
2010 Placard from the ‘Save The Tote Rally’ in 2010 exhibited in permanent collection of Australian Performing Arts, in the Australian Music Vault, Arts Centre, Victoria.
2011 Julie gave birth to daughter Raven and retreated to low-key collaboration in a trio with Joe Foley and Genevieve Callaghan: 'Midnight Bosom' and 'The Elvis Angels'.
2011 ‘Someday We'll Find It’ featuring a huge cast of Thornbury Primary School Students, Melbourne community radio personalities, dancers, rock bands, comics, DJ’s, puppets and the-one-and-only Kamahl, co-produced with Supple Fox, raised money for Thornbury Primary School’s art program.
2012 ‘The Last Greatest Show On Earth’, raised money for musical instruments and a music therapy program at John Cade Psychiatric Ward, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
2013 Duo; Lovers Of The Black Bird (Joe, Foley and Julie Montan) produced a self-titled EP engineered by Richie 1250.
2015 Lovers of the Black Bird recorded LP ‘Ocean of No Time’ engineered by John Lee and released on Ltd. Edition hand-drawn, hand-dubbed cassettes.
2015 Julie was muse for fashion designer Alexi Freeman and Jeweller Tessa Blazey: “The Gown Of Shadows”; hand sculpted dress, toured galleries of Australia and featured in a Lovers of the Black Bird music video directed by Vishal. Lovers performed live and the video screened in the DeVille Room at Bakehouse for DressLOUD, VAMFF Cultural Program.
2015 Lovers of the Black Bird feature in 'The Bakehouse Project' Coffee Table Book published by Schwartz City.
2016 Lovers of the Black Bird “Make It Up Club 160816” perform and won ‘Live Llodie Award’ for "Best Nonlinear Retelling of a European Holiday in Textural Melodics".
2016-2019 Soft Rubbish recorded ‘Sweet & Sour’; unreleased EP.
2017 Lovers of the Black Bird played Melbourne Music Week 'Miscellanea', at Melbourne Town Hall and St Paul’s Cathedral.
2017 Lovers of the Black Bird played M Pavillion.
2017-2019 Self-published “Quadragenarian Magazine” an anti-ageist zine that sold with release of Soft Rubbish first single ‘Wasted’.
2017 Julie on cover of 'Beat Magazine'.
2018 Julie received BA in Songwriting and Music Production at Melbourne Polytechnic with Distinction.
2019 Graham Pogson of GL and The Bamboos was commissioned by Richie 1250 to produce re-mix of ‘Tonight We Say Goodbye’ for Richie's Annual Xmas CD and renowned 'Slow Grind Fever' dance parties.
2019 'Ocean Of No Time' Re-release on Vinyl by 'Trauma Extinction'. Launch at Longplay, with screening of Music Film shot and edited by Julie, with special, curated concert of Melbourne artists covering a song each, from Julie’s catalogue. Performers included Super Wild Horses, Jacky Winter, Rui Pereira (The Drones), Steph Brett, Tom Of Coburg and GL.
2018 Programmed ‘Carport Concert’, an all-ages rock show in a Brunswick carport starring Sarah Mary Chadwick, Tracksuit, Soft Rubbish.
2018-2020 Produced/directed music videos including the iconic ‘1999’ starring Alan Brough from 'Spicks & Specks', which played on Rage.
2019-2020 Soft Rubbish (Julie Montan, Joe Foley, Monika Fikerle, Mat Sincock) recorded and released ‘Millennial Pink’ on cassette to warm critical reception however Covid disrupted the progress of the release, thus all shows were cancelled.
2020 Received funding from Moreland (Merri Bek) City Council to make the documentary 'Bullet Proof: Always Interesting Albert Mansfield Hudson’ about a disabled, elderly man, whose life-story would have died with him had the residents of Trafford St not rallied together to find out who he really was. This documentary is still being edited but has caught the attention of Amiel Courtin Wilson (Bastardy, Man On Earth) who shares an interest in the lives of complex, elder men who live on the outside of the fringe.
2022 ‘Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts’; a 3 day music festival held in a Brunswick carport. After Covid had ravaged mental health and livelihoods of the Brunswick community this inclusive, all-ages event starring: Michael Beach, Tom Lyngcoln, Cong Josie, Hot Tubs Time Machine, Star Time, Amanda Roff, Simon Grounds and many more, transformed the lives of performers and audiences alike.
2022 Paul Elliott produced for Radio 3CR, a career retrospective: "And This One's Introduced By..." which was the most streamed show in the programme's history.
2022-Present Her most recent collaboration is Princess Liar, whose line-up has included a cast of "Melbourne Famous": Mia Schoen (New Estate, Powerful Owl), Siahn Davis (RVG, Crash Material), Hilary Hutchinson, Jules Pascoe (Jazz Party, On Diamond), Oscar France (Toqui), Alex Roper (Mandeng Groove, Ella Thompson), Helena Plazza and Tom Of Coburg. Recorded ‘Tell Me The Truth Do You Love Me Or Not’ engineered by Nick Treweek in 2022; soon to be released as a 'video album' for Youtube edited by Keziah Warren. Have just finished recording first full length album; ‘This Wonderful World’ Julie's 8th studio album, engineered by Tim Harvey (Jade Imagine, Ruby Gill, Lisa Mitchell). Julie has also produced digital/soundtrack music for a select audience only.
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Princes Liar Quartet at Cross St Music Hall

'Crying' Quincy Maclean's 60th; Julie Montan, Adele Daniele, Crisso Strybosch

HOW'S YA FATHER?

Julie's own T-shirt label was inspired by Mambo artist Reg Mombassa. All her graphics originated as paintings on canvas, then adapted for silk screen printing. 'The Missing Sock'.

Lucy Taylor with 'The Missing Sock', How's Ya Father?

Julie wearing "Buy Me You Fucker....thank you". Her middle finger response to consumerism and retailers who wanted for less controversial messaging. This T-shirt stocked at the infamously elitist store YPV in Surry Hills owned by Ian Nessick. It sold out in a day. Ironic considering the message.

The fine print was a message about consumerism.

NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE

Geoff O'Connor at The Last Greatest Show On Earth Photo by: Tommy Spender

The Tivoli Lovelies at the Last Greatest Show On Earth Photo by: Tommy Spender

Hot Tubs Time Machine selling a lot of merch at Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts

Amanda Roff and Simon Grounds at Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts

The Rainbow Connection Cast with Kamahl at Someday We'll Find It

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Midnight Bosom with magician Anthony Demasi at Longplay

Amanda Roff, Julie Montan with Amy Franz and Hayley McKee of Super Wild Horses

DON'T GET DIZZY GET BIZZY

Still from upcoming Music Video for Princess Liar edited by Keziah Warren

Julie now...

Her current practice is inspired by the question: "What world are we leaving our children?". A single parent, Julie sees how music forms a huge part of a teenager's developing identity and responding to their entertainment needs substantively is more prescient than ever.

X-Rays of Julie's Anaconda Spine and song list.

Like mother like daughter

Raven, Amanda Roff and Amy Franz at Phaedra recording Soft Rubbish

'Long Live The King' Julie wrote the song, put the band together, rehearsed in secret at Sabo's hair salon, for Quincy Mclean's 50th 'Dada' party at Bakehouse; Julie Montan, Lola and Angus Mclean, Steven Sabatino, Sara Retallick

Trafford St Kids on set of "Bulletproof" Shot by Arie Hirsch, Edited by Matthew Revert, Directed by Julie Montan, 2021

Laura Jean and Caroline Kennedy in class at Melbourne Polytechnic

Children of the Ultra Void, Mary Mihelakos, Stephen Cummings, Mia Schoen at Carport Concert To End All Carport Concerts

Carport Concert #1 a great community turn out to see Sarah Mary Chadwick, Tracksuit, Sparkly Bear and Soft Rubbish

On set of 'Not In The Game' music video

On set with Alan Brough for '1999' music video

Rage

Julie at Dane Certificate's Magic Theatre

Julie is a big fan of Marcus and Guy - side project of Marcus Rechsteiner and Guy Blackman. Both gentlemen were repeat features in Julie's productions. This party was inspired by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, '42: Life The Universe and Everything'

Bruce Milne and Adele Daniele were among the rotation of DJ's at '42: Life The Universe and Everything'

Julie played piano in the Chris Smith 'Second Hand Smoke' band for Rising Festival

Rehearsal intensive at Phaedra before a week recording Princess Liar new album, July 2025

Princess Liar dream team/recording crew.

Princess Liar at Cross St, Supporting On Diamond

The original Tivoli dancers the 'Tivoli Lovelies' came out of retirement to perform at the Last Greatest Show on earth. To raise money for a music therapy program at John Cade Psychiatric Ward, RMH.

All ages watching Soft Rubbish at Carport Concert #1

With the highest standards of inclusivity Julie has worked with almost every arts community in Melbourne: from contortionists to magicians, make-up and sound technicians, First Nations, LGBTQI, Primary School Students, Parents, Teachers, Boys in Detention, The Elderly, and an incredible array of culturally diverse amateurs and professionals. With some daring and imagination she has engaged music-goers in new ways, brought genuine diversity to music venues, lifted the community, the community spirit, and created lasting memories for all involved (and FOMO for those who weren't involved).

​A slideshow of selected band posters below...