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Erik, Mathias and Nikola started the band in October -92 in Örebro Sweden, back then we were playing in other punkbands and singing in Swedish. Erik played guitar in Charles Hårfager. Nikola and Mathias had their band called Seigmenn. We all started skating around -87 and we got into punkbands like Operation Ivy, Mc Rad, Descendents & Odd Man Out from skatevideos. So we decided to start a skaterock band. We got the name from the skatetrick ”Melancholy” (also known as sad air), but we changed the spelling a bit so it sounds more like a name. We recorded a ten song demotape called ”Goofy” in early -93, played one show, then Larzon joined the band. Larzon played in a band called Kung Pung at that time. We needed two guitars live and Mathias, who played the drums in Millencolin before Larzon joined us, was more of a guitarplayer. The three bands we played in before, all released one 7" each, which we paid for ourselves. Both Seigmenn and Kung Pung broke up early -93. ...