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All pop stories start somewhere. Some start in bars, some in clubs, some in moshpits. For Mew, this particular story starts with the end of the world...... The end of the world on celluloid that is. Brought together at school whilst making a film on the destruction of nature, Jonas Bjerre, Bo Madsen, Johan Wohlert, and Silas Graae formed a friendship over the earth's demise that was destined to flourish. Although the end result was somewhat clumsy, the bond built on their shared interests in music and film was to lead to the creation of Mew. "It took a while to get the band together and to begin with we didn't know what we were doing, but that's turned out to be our greatest asset," vocalist Jonas explains, his talking voice every bit as fragile and understated as the one you'll hear on the records. "We didn't know how to play other people's songs so we thought we might as well play our own. We knew almost immediately that we were onto something." As did ever...