The Melons

The Melons

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Melons


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Origin = flagicon|UK Nottingham , England
Genre = Indie pop
Years_active = 1993 – 1997
Label = Heaven Records
Sunday Records
Damaged Goods
Pickled Egg Records
Elefant Records
Sorted Records
Current_members = Katy Clarkson
Vanessa Turner
Colin Altuccini
Nigel Turner
Rob

The Melons were an indie pop band formed in Nottingham, England in 1993 by Katy (Sheggi) Clarkson (guitar, vocals and melodica), formerly of the Fat Tulips, and Vanessa Turner (vocals).

For their first live appearance they were joined by an unknown guitarist and bassist but for all subsequent appearances they were joined by Colin Altuccini (guitar) and Nigel Turner (bass). Drums were provided by a drum machine until late 1995, when drummer Rob joined and took over those duties. For a number of live appearances they were joined by Roger Melon on mandolin.

Katy and Vanessa appear on all the recordings by The Melons. Colin and Nigel appear on all recordings after Strictly Melonhead and Rob appears on the Fast Lane single.

The track Fire Engine Girl, from the Heaven Sent! flexi, was played by Mark Radcliffe on his evening show on BBC Radio 1. This led to The Melons playing two live sessions on his show, on 18/5/95 and 6/3/96.

The Melons only appeared live on stage 15 times but managed to play with luminaries such as Heavenly, Prolapse, Bis, Modesty Blaise, The Freed Unit, The Television Personalities, Helen Love and Super Furry Animals.

Colin and Vanessa appeared as Mr and Mrs Cantaloup and Nigel as Mr Honeydew in a number of episodes of Chez Lester, a soap opera on Leicester's Cable 7 community TV channel. In episode 63 they performed The Melons track Little Death Wishes.

Discography

ingles / EPs

Heaven Sent! (7" flexi, 1993, Heaven Records, HV07)

Strictly Melonhead (7”, 1994, Sunday Records, Sunday 034)

From Hell To Helsinki (7”, 1995, Damaged Goods, Damgood 79)

Fast Lane (7”, 1996, Damaged Goods, Damgood 91)

Black and Blue / Eskimo (7”, 1997, Pickled Egg Records, Egg1)

Tracks on compilation albums

Eskimo on Casablanca (1997, Elefant Records, ER-1056)

Big Freeze on Suction Prints (1998, Sorted Records, SRLP4)

External links

* [http://www.twee.net/bands/m/melons.html The Melons on TweeNet]
* [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Melons The Melons on last.fm]


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