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About Me

Melvis has been writing kind of folk/country/low-key/rock songs for quite a while now. Since 1998 to be exact. Which means thereÂ´s an anniversary around the corner soon enough... The first rare Melvis tape-recordings is from the summer of 1999, recorded with his brother Rallie (as in "Girls love Rallie") in Odense. His first gig was at his high school a few months later, where he and a buddy "performed" 3 songs. It took a while to form the first actual band, which was formed around the new year 2000/2001. The band was called Mnemonic (the name was carefully chosen one late night from a dictionary with his future bandmates). The band was Melvis, Chewie D., Silas and Rasmus MÃ¼hlbach, and this constallation played gigs in their hometown Aalborg from 2001 to 2002. Around the summer of 2002 Melvis and Chewie D. started writing songs together, and around 2003 Chewie and Melvis teamed up with Rune Hedeman (now known from 1 2 3 4), and formed a rockband, which they named Torpedoes. Johannes Gammelby ( i am bones) joined them on drums, and they played gigs for around 18 months before disbanding. During all of this, Melvis never stopped writing songs of his own, recording them at home, or with his friends. The first "official" demo carrying the Melvis name was "say hello" from 2003, recorded with Claus SÃ¸gaard (bought landings). In 2004 came "itÂ´s a western, so say it like you mean it", which was printed in impressive 25 copies. uhh... This demo was made at home with his roommate at the time, Mr.Chewie D, contributing guitar-playing and such and such. In 2005, the demo "Greece, I love you" was made released, and cancelled all at once, which means it hasnÂ´t seen the light of day (yet) :). Finally, in 2005/2006, Melvis started recording the selftitled record, which has just recently been released on "workaholics on holiday". This was recorded with Johannes, Chewie, Niels Mark (bought landings) and Qlauz (beta satan). besides recording, Melvis did a couple of solo shows, among others, playing at the wonderful Pop revo 2005, with only the company of his guitar. In the near future, Melvis will start recording a short EP with Qlauz and Johannes (stay tuned for info), and re-releasing "itÂ´s a western", also on "workaholics on holiday". In the meantime, help yourself for some songs on this site, and drop a comment if weÂ´re friends!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/7/2006
Band Website: yes please
Band Members: Anders Hald (vocals/guitar)new papercuts: Kasper Ravlo (guitar) Anders Riis (bass) Stefan Rasmussen (piano) Johannes Gammelby (drums, live only)special papercuts recording appearances by: Kasper (guitar/vocals/moog/and more) Johannes (drums/guitar/vocals) Qlauz (drums/bass)
Influences: Paul Westerberg, Lemonheads, Guided by voices, Wilco, Teenage Fanclub, Pernice brothers, Superchunk and others from time to time
Sounds Like: me and a bunch of friends
Record Label: workaholics on holiday
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

concert!!!!!!!!

well, it´s a great pleasure for me to announce that melvis & the papercuts will be playing with shout wellington air force and Ladybug transistor on the 21st of june on studenterhuset aarhus! Lady...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:02:00 PST

new pictures!!

4 pictures of the papercuts. have a look. they´re a bit dark though... c ya.
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:22:00 PST

new mp3´s and more news...

Hello there. I have uploaded a couple of new songs to my profile. "hearts like gunwounds" and "ain´t no pleasing you", both off the (slightly)new album from december. They´re both very very good songs...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:42:00 PST

foreign blogs

okay, somebody help me! I´ve been mentioned in a spanish blog, and i have no idea what it says. Any guesses? also, i think it´s funny i´m refered to as "melvin". el hecho de que existan pr...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:01:00 PST

beginning of

so, on sunday i´ll sit down with Qlauz and Johannes and talk about the songs we are gonna record. The songs are: Brainstorm windshields Arkansas First time early, last time late Mannequin speedch...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:41:00 PST

mp3

new mp3 song is called pancake, off the last record. go ahead and have a listen! cheers! ps. furthermore, I plan to start recording demo´s for a new "old" EP very soon!...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:47:00 PST

finally some news...

it´s been quite a while since I began recording this album. Things have taking it´s time since i´m not the Carl Lewis of recordings, but now, ladies and gentlemen, the wait is almost over! On Monday, ...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:26:00 PST

no subject

just to post a blog, here´s a list of my top 4 favorite records right now: 1. The only ones &n bsp; ...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:34:00 PST

a couple of things

1st and foremost, i am glad to officially announce that the next Melvis & the papercuts will be released on "Workaholics on holiday", a nice new little cd-r company... stay tuned for info... 2. Th...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:41:00 PST

koncert

rygterne er sande... Melvis & the papercuts giver en sjælden koncert d.12 oktober på skråen i Aalborg som fællessupport for Yellowish. den anden halvdel er long time associate Chewie D., der giver...
Posted by Melvis & the papercuts on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:51:00 PST