| The Meligrove Band | |
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| Origin | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Last Gang Records Nevado Records V2 Records We Are Busy Bodies Endearing Records Ductape Records |
| Associated acts | By Divine Right Femme Fatale The Bicycles Sports |
| Website | http://meligroveband.com |
| Members | |
| Jason Nunes Darcy Rego Michael Small Brian O'Reilly |
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| Past members | |
| Rick Gomes Andrew Scott |
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The Meligrove Band is a Canadian indie rock band, based in Toronto, and consisting of Jason Nunes on vocals, guitar and piano, Darcy Rego on vocals and drums, Brian O'Reilly on guitar and synthesizer, and Michael Small on bass guitar.
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The band was formed in 1997 by Nunes, Small and Rego, when the three attended Father Michael Goetz Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. Their first public performance was in March 1998 at Club Shanghai in Toronto.[1] The band pressed a demo cassette in May 1998, and its first album, Stars & Guitars, was released by Ductape Records in April 2000. Original drummer Rick Gomes departed in June 2001,[2] and the band stayed a trio (with singer-guitarist Rego permanently moving to drums) until the release of their second album, Let it Grow on Endearing Records in October 2002.
Andrew Scott joined in October 2002, months before his former band, Femme Fatale, ceased touring. Scott's bandmates in Femme Fatale included Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, who later rose to prominence together as Death from Above 1979. Although the Meligrove Band's sound has been compared to Sloan by some Canadian critics, Scott is not the same person as Sloan's Andrew Scott. His last show as a member of the band was in September 2007 in London, but he has occasionally appeared with them as a guest since.
In 2003, Nunes, Small and Rego appeared in Joel Plaskett Emergency's Come On Teacher music video, playing Plaskett's high school posse. In 2004, the band appeared as themselves on an episode of the teen comedy Radio Free Roscoe.
In early 2005, Small played briefly together with Jessie Stein and Owen Pallett in SS Cardiacs, a predeccessing band of The Luyas.
In summer 2005, The Meligrove Band became the first Canadian group signed to V2 Records,[3] who released Planets Conspire in the United Kingdom, Canada, Taiwan, Scandinavia and Finland in 2006. Planets Conspire was featured as Rough Trade Shops' Album of the Month for April 2006, and in Canada it reached #2 on the national campus radio chart.[4]
The band's 2010 release, Shimmering Lights, was released 21 September 2010 by Nevado Records in Canada and Last Gang Records in the United States, and reached #1 on CBC Radio 3 in late October.[5]
A documentary entitled Ages & Stages: The Story of the Meligrove Band will be released in the summer of 2011. The film includes interviews with more than 35 other Canadian bands and music industry personalities including Joel Plaskett, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, Fucked Up, The Arkells, The Most Serene Republic and Sebastien Grainger.
The Meligrove Band song "Bones Attack!!" is used as the theme song for TV show The Basketball Jones.