The Mountaineers (band)


The Mountaineers was a Welsh pop group, consisting of founding members Alex Germains, Ceri James, and Tomas Kelar. Having been discovered by Deltasonic founder Alan Wills, they were the first act to sign to the record label Deltasonic, home of Liverpudlian bands The Coral and The Zutons. The group produces all their own music.
The original line-up released an eponymous 6-track EP on the Deltasonic imprint in 2001. This was picked up by BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Mark Radcliffe who played Red Thong on his national daytime show for a week in the November of that year. Mute Records signed the band and they released another eponymous 6-track EP in 2003, followed by the album Messy Century in the September. After having been released by Mute due to the label's restructuring in the wake of their takeover by EMI, Kelar left the band. They recruited a new drummer, Ezra Bang, and released a 10" limited-edition EP on the Manchester-based label Northern Ambition in February 2004. Entitled Motions of Interplanetary Dust, it was said by the band to be named after Brian May of Queen's PhD astronomy thesis, and was again well received, with several good reviews but received little radio airplay.
Since that release, the band have been on hiatus. However, there are rumours of new material being recorded, but with no substantiation in the media.

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