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Henk & Melle - Chainsaw FanvanMel 780 views Tividorfabriek presents: A video by Detlef Villerius Song: Chainsaw by Henk & Melle
Giving names to all the leaves- Melle #feat. Julie Scott FanvanMel 230 views Giving names to all the leaves. Julie Scott sings along.
An Angel - Melle FanvanMel 281 views The story of an angel who visits me
The Answer - Melle FanvanMel 198 views Video for 'The Answer'. A song from the album 'Mellevile' by John Dear Mowing Club. www.mowingclub.com
Trouble- Melle FanvanMel 969 views Most of my troubles are self invented ghosts.
Hotel- Henk & Melle (rough mix) FanvanMel 451 views Hotel is a song from the 'Roodnoot Sessions' Melle and Henk Koorn (o.a. Hallo Venray) went one week to the Roodnoot Farm near Utrecht. They wrote and recorded 12 songs.
Fastest Living Poet- Henk & Melle (rough mix) FanvanMel 424 views Fastest Living Poet is a song from the 'Roodnoot Sessions' Melle and Henk Koorn (o.a. Hallo Venray) went one week to the Roodnoot Farm near Utrecht. They wrote and recorded...
common sense- Henk & Melle (rough mix, version 1) FanvanMel 920 views Common Sense is a song from the 'Roodnoot Sessions'. Melle and Henk Koorn (o.a. Hallo Venray) went one week to the Roodnoot Farm near Utrecht. They wrote and recorded 12 ...
Do It Yourself- John Dear Mowing Club FanvanMel 1,352 views John Dear Mowing Club - Do It Yourself With Mowing Allard Robert on horn and Mowing Sean on drums
handsome Family FanvanMel 655 views An awkward dressing room Wayfaring Stranger with the Handsome Family in Paard van Troje, Den Haag.

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This is not the channel of the band, I'm just a member of the mowing club that likes to make vids and share this music.
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"John Dear Mowing Club" evolved from the band "Smutfish", with guitarist, lyricist/poet and painter Melle de Boer as the main founder of both projects.
Melle's music, his gloomy lyrics and his ability to make putting things into perspective funny again,  make critics compare him to (amongst others) Green on Red, Lambchop and Johnny Dowd.  Melle himself likes to describe his style as Country Noir.

Melle (Delft, 1972) grew up listening to American singer-songwriters of the likes of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. In 1995, he graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. Next to working as a painter, Melle decides to found his band Smutfish in the late summer of 2002.

They record their first album 'Lawnmower Mind' in 2003 at the holiday cottage of Melle's father which is situated in the Brabantse Kempen.  The album is self-released by the band in 2004: it is well received.  Local journalists claim the album to be "the best CD to have been released in The Hague in 2004". 
The Volkskrant features  a very positive review of their performance: "Melle de Boer's pleasantly gnawing performance and  the magnificent and restrainted playing of his experienced bandmembers make songs such as Tear Factory into sinister gems resting on a bed of beautifully expressed male sorrow."
The second album 'Through a slightly open door' is released on Munich Records.
In 2007 the band are  signed by the German label Hazelwood that is to release their third album.
In April 2007 Smutfish tour Holland and Belgium while appearing as the support-act and accompanying band of American singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston.
In September 2007, Melle announces a significant change of bandname from Smutfish to John Dear Mowing Club. He claims to have decided that their old bandname did not fit the current material; "It seemed as if we'd outgrown it. The release of the new album equaled our chance to say goodbye to Smutfish and welcome the John Dear Mowing Club".

The album 'John Dear Mowing Club' is released in November 2007. The CD will also be available on ITunes.

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