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'Broadcast One' - Dandelion Radio's 1st compilation album

NEWS:
We have 28 hours across 12 shows for October including, possibly, the last from Mark Cunliffe for a long time. Plus - it is already 20 years since John Peel died and we have some reminders.

Artist Info

Melys

Melys
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Powered by Audioscrobbler™Melys (translation "Sweet") is a Welsh indie-rock band from Betws-y-Coed. Formed in 1996, the band went on hiatus from 2005-2009.

Much loved by the legendary British DJ John Peel, core members are Andrea Parker (vocals), Paul Adams (guitar and keyboards), Carys Jones (keyboards) and Gary Husband. Between 1996 and 2005 they released five full-length albums plus numerous other recordings. Their debut album, 'Rumours and Curses', came out in 1998 on Arctic/Pinnacle records, but the band's relationship with the label turned sour, and in 1999 they formed their own label, Sylem Records, on which their second full length album, 'Kamikaze', came out in 2000. In common with their debut album 'Kamikaze' attracted critical acclaim, as did the 2002 follow-up 'Suikerspin' (which is Dutch for candy floss). Fittingly for a band championed almost from the outset by greatly loved BBC DJ John Peel the single from this album called 'Chinese Whispers' was voted number one in Peel's Festive Fifty at the end of the year. The band's final two albums were 'Casting Pearls' (2003) and 'Life's Too Short' (2005), the latter of which was dedicated to Peel, who had died in October of the previous year.

More egalitarian and open than many bands, Melys attracted impassioned support, with Andrea Parker suggesting that this was because whereas “With a lot of bands you get ‘we are the band, you are the fans’ ....... with us the fans have become friends. They become part of Melys in a weird kind of way. We’re not up on a pedestal at all! If you like us, come and have a chat with us.”

The band had a four-year break from releasing records and playing gigs after a March 2005 gig in Llandudno; Parker and Adams opened a restaurant called Bistro Betws-y-Coed in their hometown, specialising in Welsh food. In September 2009 the band played a gig for "John Peel Day" at Hendre Hall in Bangor in memory of the DJ. In the summer of 2016, Melys performed at 'By the edge of the Sea' festival with The Wedding Present in Brighton and at the Stowed Out festival in Stow near Edinburgh. They have toured with The Wedding Present and they released a single in 2019.
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