Melys
Biography
Melys means sweet, and is pronounced melith, but said the wrong way it comes out malice. Like we're some death metal band," says Paul. It is just right for the band, who combine the honeyed lonely voice of Andrea and the dark bitter lyrics of Paul. "We live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by trees and mountains, it's beautiful, but we live in a small place, a nice little close community. There's a lot of back-stabbing and shit and that all comes out in the songs." But they love wales and even signed their deal with Pinnacle on Mount Snowdon. "It was the middle of winter. It was freezing," Andrea says. "We found a bit of rock that was quite flat and we signed with the executives from the record company standing round. All the climbers coming down must have thought we were crackers."
One of their songs, "Hatchepsut", is named after an Egyptian queen who fell
in love with a servant. Melys gave a modern-day slant to the story and then
went into the studio to record. Everything started to go wrong. "The microphones
started blowing up, the equipment stopped working. Worse still, the vocal track
just slowed right down and the words came out all stretched. It was late at
night in this huge studio in the middle of nowhere. Darkness all around us.
And a few days later there was a massacre at the Hatchepsut Temple in Egypt.
We'll never play that song live."
Melys Are:
Paul Adams - Guitars, Keybords, Vocals.
Andrea Parker - Vocals, Penguin Tambourine.
Gary Husband - Drums, Percussion.
Carys Jones - Keybords.
Discography
Singles
Fragile E.P.
1) Let Yourself Scream 2) Noeth 3) Puppet 4) Adeiladu Fi
Cuckoo
1) Cuckoo 2) Ni Ddisgynna'r Aderyn, 3) Fried
Diwfr
1) Diwfr 2) In Love With Danielle Steel 3) Paper Stone Scissors
Lemming
1) Lemming 2) When The Sun Went Out 3) Hedfan
Ambulance Chaser
1) Ambulance Chaser 2) Your Fuck Me Eyes 3) Ambulance (Meatwagon
Mix)
Baby Tornado/Elenya
1) Baby Tornado 2) Elenya 3) Penysgafn
Slagging Off Tourists EP
1) Disco Pig 2) Mae'n Amser i Newid 3) Porn Myself 4)Chasing Again
Un Darllenwr Lwcus
1) Un Darllenwr Lwcus 2) All Played Out 3) Beautiful Breakdown
Albums
Rumours And Curses
1) Achilles Heel 2) Diwfr 3) Acid Queen 4) Painfully Thin 5) Hatchepsut 6) Fade Away (For The Last Time) 7) Lemming 8) When You Put Leonard Cohen On 9) Ambulance Chaser 10) Misunderstand Me 11) Hope You Cry Yourself To Sleep 12) Matryoshka
Kamikaze
1) Protect and Survive 2) Porn Myself 3) Then There Was One 4) Sumimasen 5) Lullaby 6) You Should Have Been There 7) Baby Tornado 8) Magnesiwm 9) Tiny Bombs 10) Waiting to Fall 11) Dirty Whore 12) Can y Gegin