Melon Diesel was a successful Gibraltarian

Gibraltarian people

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 pop rock

Pop rock

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 band

Musical ensemble

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, signed by Sony Music, who achieved popularity in Spain

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History

Melon Diesel started playing under the name of Treehouse in the early 1990s. The name was changed in 1995, based on an alcoholic drink served at a Gibraltar bar known as Collingwood's, where the band used to perform regularly. The group moved to London

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 to work with producer Barry Sage, recording La Cuesta de Mr. Bond.
The group split up in 2003 forming two new bands, Area 52 and Taxi

Taxi (Gibraltar band)

Taxi is a Gibraltarian pop rock band founded in 2005 after the break-up of Melon Diesel. After the quintet's break-up, its members dissolved into two different bands: Taxi and Area 52...

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While Area 52 has remained in the local circuit in Gibraltar, Taxi retains frontman Dylan Ferro and has released two albums with some commercial success in Spain, inheriting a portion of Melon Diesel's fanbase.

La Cuesta de Mr. Bond (1999)

Track listing:

1. Graveyard

2. Marlisse

3. Backroom

4. Did it again

5. Here we are

6. I stay

7. Butterfly

8. Ready to learn

9. Gotta leave

10. Not a second

11. Big old house

12. Is this it?

La Cuesta de Mister Bond (1999)

Track listing:

1. Contracorriente

2. Por ti

3. Desaparecida

4. Nuestra historia

5. Quiero un camino

6. Loco

7. Volar

8. Alguien especial

9. Déjalo y vive

10. Sin querer

11. Se acabó la fe

12. Is this it?

Hombre en el Espejo (2001)

Track listing:

1. Grita

2. Hombre en el espejo

3. En el andén

4. Calle desengaño

5. Mundo irreal

6. Lo que digo

7. Por los días que vendrán

8. Si me desprecias

9. T.V.

10. Llenabas mi alma

11. Planeta verde

12. Sabes mentir

Real (2003)

Track listing:

1. It's only you

2. Live, live, live

3. Can I follow?

4. You're chocolate

5. How do you feel?

6. All that you want

7. Venice

8. Daddy's love

9. Love the great

10. The thought I feared the most

11. Niña del sur

12. Al otro lado

13. Chocolate

14. Tal vez

15. Náufrago en el Peñón

16. Dime por qué

External links

• Official website.
• Fanclub site.