Meltwater - Music - Meltwater

1997, Stuck in Bangor N. Wales, no musical friends, no hope, working for Tesco. Boy was I missing making music. Grandpa Lloyd died, left us a bit of money (killed the overdraft and left a wee bit over) to by a guitar and practice amp. Fuck it thought I - bought a small book of chords and learnt a number of major key scales.

As for stringing them together musically, it never really bothered me. Noise and experimenting were the order of the day. Did it for a while, recorded loads of music, gave myself the name Meltwater (watching a documentary on glaciers) and bought a 4 track.

Got some interest from friends' friends and started to form a band. At our height we had 4 members - me (again,) Dave Hollins (northern git originally in a band called Easy Meat who at least released a single,) Lee Chick (Charlie Brown, Jack) and Chris Nurse (Charlie Brown.) As a band we only recorded about 5 or 6 tracks. On my own I recorded 10 or 11 tracks.

We embraced experimentation and post rock willingness. Samples, drum beats and give it a go, even if you can't quite manage it. By now you are desperate to hear the music we made.

If you pop over to our mp3.com site you can download a few tracks as a taster, or better still, you can by one of the Meltwater albums I put together there.

Modern Times Ain't Fun Anymore

Sea Songs

Or download the 3 free tracks

I also designed a load of nice covers for the demos, posters, graphics and stuff. Visit the designs page to see more.

We never really split up, as we weren't really a band to start with, Meltwater is maybe gone, maybe sleeping. Only time will tell...