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Melopark

About Me

Sian Evans (Kosheen) & Simon Kingman.We met in Cardiff as new kids on the local music scene Sian was 16 at the time and I was 19. We instantly became friends and found we shared many common musical influences, Joni Mitchell, CSN, James Taylor and America, as well as British Folk hero John Martyn. We started playing together in local bands and became flatmates, along with two other musician friends, the late great Andy Maule and guitarist Kevin Dobie.Sian found international success fronting the famous dance/pop band 'Kosheen' from Bristol. Kosheen have recently released their 3rd highly successfull album 'Damage'-www.kosheen.com. I stayed in Wales, band leading and session playing, and touring with bands from Cardiff, eventually setting up the acclaimed music venue ‘The Toucan‘.After a reunion gig in aid of the Tsunami disaster, we began playing together in the winter of 2006 and started developing this project in 2007. We get together twice a week, sit around Sian's big kitchen table with guitars and coffee and see what comes out. So far we've only played a handfull of gigs including a filmed performance in Los Angeles in December 2006. In Dec 2007 we were invited to play at a festival in Moscow, the gig was a great success and we had a great time. It was in Moscow we decided to use the name 'Melo Park' for our future gigs as a band. We continue our writing sessions and are currently putting the finishing touches to our first Album of songs set to be released sometime in the near future. The band features Aaron Ahmun (drums-John Martyn, Linda Lewis) and Pete Hurley (bass-Van Morrison). This year we have performed in Europe and the UK with some great festivals including Glastonbury where we received a fantastic reception on the Glade stage. We are available with the full band or as an acoustic duo.

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Member Since: 10/6/2007
Band Members: Sian Evans- vocals, Simon Kingman- guitars/vocals, Richard Dunne- Farfisa organ, accordian, Grand Piano, Rhodes Piano. Pete Hurley- Bass, Aaran Ahmun- Drums.
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Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Vienna Show, interviews & Radio session

Hi folks,Just a quick one to give you a few links to the coverage of the Vienna gig along with a fewinterviews and a radio session. Hope you like em.Sian and Si http://video.vienna.at/video/31458/melo...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:21:00 GMT

Fantastic gig at Glastonbury!

We've just returned from Glastonbury where we played the Glade stage on Friday.The day started off a little wet with a lot of waiting around and I have to say a few pre gig nerves. Particularly as thi...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:24:00 GMT

Jesters Gig & Hazelwood Session

Thanks to everyone who attended the Jesters gig in Bristol last month, we felt it to be a very special occasion. The first gig with our full band including our superb new bassist Andrew Brown. A big s...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:04:00 GMT

The weekend in Germany.

thanks to everyone who made the weekend so lovely. The self build eco youth center was the perfect environment for the evenings unplugged sets. you could hear a pin drop during the songs and the pla...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:34:00 GMT

Thanks! Tom Robinson show..also great gigs this summer!

Just wanted to say a big thanks once again to Tom Robinson for playing our song ’Breathe’ on his fabulous show ’Introducing’. Also thanks to all who voted for us to be featured...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:07:00 GMT

New songs

We had a great session over at Richard's studio last week where we recorded another 3 songs towards the album. (Richard Dunn is in our top friends)Track one 'More Tomorrow' is a song we've played live...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:40:00 GMT

IC Wales Interview -Echo/Western Mail

Almost forgot! Thanks Tee for the reminder!We had an article in the Echo/Western Mail last Friday which you can read using the link below. It included a picture which isn't on the website.Many thanks ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:24:00 GMT

What’s been happening!

It's been a great couple of months for us! It started in December with our wonderful gig in Moscow where we met so many new friends and were given such an incredibly warm welcome..even the weather was...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:15:00 GMT

Country Tuning

Richard and I continued work on the new songs yesterday hoping to finish the songs 'She Said' and 'Ball of String'...Sian still has to finish her vocals. Just before I set off for the studio, I got a ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:29:00 GMT

Good Day Sunshine!

I'm not sure what the weather is doing where you are, but here in sunny Cardiff we're having what the weather men in the UK call an Indian Summer...which generally means we've had about 3 (maybe 4) da...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:50:00 GMT