Meltwater - Music - Charlie Brown

1988, 6th Form, Willows High, Tremorfa, Cardiff. The norm was what everyone else in school was into. Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley, Madonna. Not us though. We liked noise and chaos, experimenting and feedback, Tennants Super and Poppers. Making music though not being able to play.

Charlie Brown started as an excuse for three school daze friends to be cooler than da fuck. The core of the band consisted of David Lloyd (me) on vocals, Lee Chick on bass and Matthew Scott on lead. There were other members over the years. Emma Priddle and Chris Nurse on rhythm guitar whilst Simon Weston, Alex the DJ and Steve of The Rockets drummed for us.

We had some favourable reviews and some shit ones. One of my favourite moments was emptying the room of the so called Avant Garde elite of Howard Gardens Faculty of Art and Design - during our one and only gig there. Emptying rooms was our specialty - we loved it.

By now you are wondering what we sounded like. You can find out by visiting our MP3.com page and listening to the few tracks we have there.

Charlie Brown Music T0 Stream.

Our career highlights included some interest being shown by the Rough Trade record label and being booked to support Spiritualized at the Square Club before being shunted out at the last minute. Oh aye, Matthew and Lee went on to form Jack.

Unfortunately, most of our best music never made it to tape. We have our one demo and some rehearsal tapes, but unfortunately, we never recorded a proper gig or our most accomplished songs.

We also made some nice posters, which I heard of a couple of people pinching for their walls...

Charlie Brown Posters.

Here are some photos of us in action...