Hey Mercedes
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| Hey Mercedes | |
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| Origin | Wisconsin United States |
| Genre(s) | Rock |
| Years active | 1999 – 2005, 2007 |
| Associated acts | Braid The City on Film Friction Saves the Day |
| Website | heymercedes.com |
| Former members | |
| Bob Nanna Todd Bell Mark Dawursk Damon Atkinson Mike Shumaker |
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Hey Mercedes were a rock band from Wisconsin, USA, that formed in 1999/2000 after the dissolution of Braid. The band consisted of Bob Nanna on guitar and vocals, Todd Bell on bass and vocals, Mark Dawursk on guitar and vocals and Damon Atkinson on drums.
Hey Mercedes' first release was a Self Titled EP on Polyvinyl Records. Soon after its release, they signed to Vagrant Records and started touring for support of their upcoming Vagrant full length. In 2001 alone, they performed 114 shows.[1]
After the release of the band's first full length at the end of 2001, Dawursk left the band and was replaced with Mike Shumaker.
Hey Mercedes proved a more melodic antidote to Bob Nanna's previous band, Braid. With such hits as Stay Six, Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday, Let's Go Blue and Eleven to Your Seven, the band quickly gained popularity in an audience that had never been exposed to the scene.
With 2 full lengths, 3 EP's and 358 shows under their belt, Hey Mercedes called it quits. Their final show (#359) was at the Metro in Chicago on April 23rd of 2005. [2]
In a 2007 e-mail campaign, Threadless Tees reported that Hey Mercedes would play at the Metro, to celebrate the grand opening of the company's Chicago store [3]
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Everynight Fire Works (2001)
- Loses Control (2003)
[edit] EPs & Singles
- Hey Mercedes (2000)
- The Weekend (2002)
- Unorchestrated (2005)
[edit] Trivia
- Mark Dawursk is the husband of Flowerbooking agent Susanne Dawursk.
- The lines "We broke down, Miles out of Morgantown" in the song 'Eleven to Your Seven' reference when the band's van actually broke down outside Morgantown, Pennsylvania
- The monologue at the beginning of "Unorchestrated (live)" is spoken by Billy Crudup in the film Waking the Dead.
[edit] External links
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