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Mew
Background information
Origin	Hellerup, Denmark
Genre(s)	Indie rock Art Rock Dream Pop Shoegaze
Years active	1995–present
Label(s)	SonyBMG/Evil Office
Website	http://www.mewsite.com/
Members
Jonas Bjerre Bo Madsen Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen
Former members
Johan Wohlert

Mew is an indie rock band from Denmark.

Contents 1 History 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Singles 2.3 DVDs 2.4 B-sides 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Mew are a Danish Indie band consisting of Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, and Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen, although originally Johan Wohlert was also in the band. Whilst their music may be classified as Indie and on occasion (like on And the Glass Handed Kites) prog rock, they sometimes humorously refer to it themselves as "pretentious art rock", or in guitarist Bo's words, "the world's only indie stadium band".

Formed in 1995 in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen, they had a profound impact on the Danish indie scene, emerging alongside the likes of Carpark North, Swan Lee and Saybia, amongst others, in 2003. At the 2003 Danish Music Critics Award Show, Mew were awarded prizes for "Album of the Year" and "Band of the Year".

Their first major commercial success came with Frengers, released in 2003, described as "a work of quiet brilliance, aiming for the epic without straying into the bombastic, offering cerebral arrangements while keeping things accessible."^[1] They were MTV Asia "Buzz-Worthy" as of January, 2006, and at the recent DMA06 (Danish Music Awards) they took home 4 statuettes.

On April 11, 2006, Wohlert left the band to spend more time with his girlfriend, Pernille Rosendahl from the now dissolved band Swan Lee, who was to give birth to their baby boy in May 2006. In September 2006, a Myspace account was created for The Storm, a new band consisting of Johan and Pernille. Mysteriously, the account was deleted only days later. The Storm has since been signed by Universal Music Denmark and are expected to put out an album by the end of 2007.

The band tours with Nick Watts (formerly of UK indie band Headswim) as their keyboardist, and Bastian Juel (who used to act as a studio and live bassist for Swan Lee and also played bass on Tina Dico's EP Far) recently joined them as their live bassist. However, he is not an official replacement for Johan and the band has said they will return to the studio with just the three original members.

The band has recently finished touring for And the Glass Handed Kites, and are currently writing new material for their next studio album.

• A Triumph for Man (1997, re-released 2006)
• Half the World Is Watching Me (2000, re-released 2007)
• Frengers (2003, re-released 2007) #2 DEN(2003) #36 FIN(2006) #6 NOR(2003)
• And the Glass Handed Kites (2005) #2 DEN #36 SWE #4 FIN #4 NOR

• "She Came Home For Christmas" (1997)
• "King Christian" (2000)
• "Her Voice is Beyond Her Years" (2000)
• "Mica" (2000)
• "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" (2000)
• "She Came Home For Christmas" (2000)
• "Am I Wry? No" (August, 2002)
• "She Came Home For Christmas" (December, 2002)
• "Comforting Sounds" (Released in the UK on March 24, 2003; charted at #48)
• "Am I Wry? No" (Released in the UK on June 16, 2003; charted at #47)
• "156" (2003)
• "She Came Home For Christmas" (Released in the UK on December 15, 2003; charted at #55)
• "Apocalypso" (2005) #75 UK
• "Special" (2005) #46 UK
• "Why Are You Looking Grave?" (2006) #53 UK
• "The Zookeeper's Boy" (2006)

• "Live In Copenhagen" (2006)

• Animals Of Many Kinds
• Bones (Song for Albert)
• City Voices
• Drown
• Forever And Ever
• In Time Do You Forget
• Killer
• King Christian (new)
• Like Chaser
• Like Paper Cuts
• Mica (new)
• Misplaced
• Nothing Is Red
• Shiroi Kuchibiru No Izanai
• Succubus
• Superfriends
• That Time On The Ledge
• Watch This Space
• Quietly
• Safe As Houses
• Where Have All the Geysers Gone
• When She Came Home For Christmas (acoustic)

• List of shoegazing musicians

• Official site
• Mew MySpace page
• Gaffas pedia about Mew (In danish)
• Mew World - Fan site
• Comforting Sounds - Fan site with a very detailed discography
• Dark Design - Fan site
• diesel ipod - Fan site
• PopGurls Interview: Mew's Jonas Bjerre
• Interview with Jonas & Johan from Room Thirteen
• Podcast interview with band on Spinner.com's The Interface