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Wandering Oak brings you:Melin Melyn
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• Melin Melyn •
Melin Melyn are more than just a band. They’re world-builders; storytellers absorbing various elements of the increasingly strange times around us and using them to create fables that ruminate on grief, love, and hope.
Their debut album Mill On The Hill sees the band jump between surf-rock, country, prog-rock and psychedelia with the grace and skill of a band with numerous records under their belt, held together by an efficacious and fantastical thematic principle. Melin Melyn translates to ‘Yellow Mill’ in Welsh, and on this album the Welsh six-piece invite the audience into the world they have quite literally built around them. Mill On The Hill transports the listeners to the utopian ‘Melin Village’, a Seussian world where townsfolk “bask in the beauty of song.” Enter our protagonists, the six millers who work at the titular mill on the hill, powered by the music that they create:
Formed in 2019 by Gruff Glyn (lead vocals, guitar, saxophone) Will Barratt (lead guitar), Cai Dyfan (drums) and Garmon Rhys (bass, backing vocals and who also performs as The Mighty Observer) the band was Gruff’s first proper musical project. After a year or so performing as a foursome, the band were soon joined by Rhodri Brooks (pedal steel) and Dylan Morgan (keys), stalwarts of the Welsh music scene with their solo works AhGeeBe and DD Darillo, as well as their works with Novo Amor & Boy Azooga respectively, adding further gravitas and completing the sound that the band had been looking for.
“Croeso! Welcome, one and all to the magical world of the Mill On The Hill. The yellow mill that sits on top of a hill, looking down on Melin Village and all of its wonderful occupants. Everyone is welcome here.” says Chief Miller Gruff. “Don’t be deceived, this is no ordinary mill. Our duty is to create music inside the mill for all the occupants of Melin Village, and anyone else who’d like to listen. Because, after all, who could imagine a world without music?”
On Mill On The Hill, Melin Melyn offer both respite & reflection. Hang up your coat, kick off your shoes, and join the millers on a saga of sonic escapism.
FFO Super Furry Animals / Mr Ben And The Bens / Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
https://melinmelyn.bandcamp.com/
Advance tickets available at 10am, Wednesday 9th October, via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/melin-melyn/cluny2/3187003
via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/T4bfb21bdf66
and via Ticketweb:
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/melin-melyn-cluny-2-tickets/13636104
Also available over the bar at The Cluny (without booking fee) and RPM Music
Cluny2
36 Lime Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 2PQ
For ages 18+ only, from 7:30pm
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The Cluny, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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