The Fumes

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The Fumes have recently returned from the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan after performing two explosive sets to rapturous audiences and promoting their debut album. The elated two piece have hit home to Australian shores and re-commenced work on their follow-up album to ‘Guns of Gold’. Their second studio album has attracted the services of Jim Diamond (The White Stripes). The Fumes will get into the studio at Megaphon in Sydney midway through October to start recording. Please stay tuned for more updates!

Some Fuji Rock reviews...
Fuji Rock pre-festival show photos

Fuji Rock pre-festival show review

Fuji Rock performance review

The Fumes live @ Fuji Rock

Fuji Rock 2008 line up

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Queens Of The Stone Age, The Fumes @ The Big Top - Luna Park, Sydney (28/03/2008)
Review by Fiona Cameron, Drum Media #900, 8 April 2008

Some nights it’s like this, where it all goes well from the moment you close your front door until you stagger out of the venue a couple of hours later, exhilarated and exhausted, quivering like a 10-year-old hopped up on sugar, shrieking “I wanna go AGAIN!” And yes, that was me.

You gotta love The Fumes. The duo appeared on stage, cranked out an outstanding set and managed to make me forget just for a little while who we had all come to see. Theirs was a skuzzy, swampy, distorted sound that’s maybe second cousin once removed from the primordial ooze that rock’n’roll springs from. Think filthy, bluesy, somewhat damaged and a strangely perfect warm up for the Queens show. Who wants cool when raw, blistering guitar and drums feels this good? […>

--> More reviews on The Fumes' reviews page..


Watch an exclusive footage of the Fumes performing live at the Woodford Folk Festival 2006/2007 Here

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THE FUMES – ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE

- BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR * MUSIC OZ AWARDS 2005

AUSTRALIAN FESTIVAL APPEARANCES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- GREAT SOUTHERN BLUES AND ROCKABILLY FESTIVAL 2005
- NEWTOWN FESTIVAL2005
- PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL 2005

- MOLONG MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006
- GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 2006
- SURRY HILLS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006
- VALLEY FIESTA 2006
- GROOVIN THE MOO ALBURY 2006
- FESTIVAL OF THE SUN 2006
- WOODFORD FOLK FESTIVAL 2006
- FALLS FESTIVAL, LORNE VIC 2006
- FALLS FESTIVAL, MARION BAY TAS 2006

- EVEBAY MAITLAND 2007
- ST KILDA FESTIVAL 2007
- WEST COAST BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL 2007
- EAST COST BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL 2007
- THE GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 2007
- BIMBADGEN BLUES FESTIVAL 2007
- GREAT SOUTHERN BLUES & ROCKABILLY FESTIVAL 2007
- BOURBON FESTIVAL 2007
- WONDERLAND FESTIVAL 2007
- FESTIVAL OF THE SUN 2007
- PEATS RIDGE FESTIVAL 2007

- BLUE MOUNTAINS FOLK FESTIVAL 2008

DEBUT EP- THE FUMES
- NATIONAL ROTATION AIRPLAY WITH ‘OH MY BABYLON’

DEBUT ALBUM – GUNS OF GOLD
- ENTERS ALL DISTRO CHART AT NO 20 (AUS)
- ENTERS AIR CHART AT NO 5 (AUS)
- NATIONAL HIGH ROTATION AIRPLAY FOR ‘AUTOMOBILE’
- ‘AUTOMOBILE’ ALSO RECEIVES AIRPLAY AUSTRALIA WIDE ON COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL RADIO
- ‘AUTOMOBILE’S AWARD WINNING FLIM CLIP IS FEATURED NATIONALLY ON CHANNEL V, MTV AND JTV
- ‘TELL YA STORY’, ‘GROCERY STORE’, ‘MYSTERY BELLE’ ALSO FEATURED ON OZ RADIO NATIONALLY
- FALLS FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE RECORDED LIVE AND FEATURED ON TRIPLE J NATIONALLY
- LIVE PERFORMANCE FOR ‘LIKE A VERSION’ TRIPLE J
- INTERVIEWS BY TRIPLE J
- AUTOMOBILE FEATURED ON TRIPLE J S ‘HOME & HOSED’ COMPILATION # 4
- ATLANTA RISING FEATURED ON INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC QANTAS INFLIGHT PROGRAMMING
- ALBUM AND SINGLE OF THE WEEK SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, QUEENSLAND PRESS.
- ALBUM OF THE WEEK FBI RADIO SYDNEY.
- TOP 5 CD FOR THE YEAR JMAG - ‘ROOTS N ALL’

THE FUMES NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN TOURS
- AUTOMOBILE TOUR -JUNE 06
- LAYING TRACKS TOUR (WITH THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS) JULY/AUG 06
- GUNS OF GOLD TOUR SEPT 06
- ‘RUN’ TOUR (WITH COG) OCT/NOV 06
- NATIONAL TOUR (WITH COG) OCT/NOV 06
- GHOSTY BLUES AND SEA SHANTY SNOOZE MARCH/APRIL 07
- THE VASCO ERA & THE FUMES- (DOUBLE HEADER) SEPT/OCT/NOV 07
- THE CRUEL SEA EAST COAST TOUR MARCH 08
- QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE NATIONAL TOUR (EXCLUSIVE SUPPORT) MARCH/APRIL 08

MISCELLANEOUS
- LICENSE GUNS OF GOLD TO BLUES INTERACTION- P-VINE RECORDS IN JAPAN
- CURRENTLY BOOKED BY VILLAGE SOUNDS - AUSTRALIA /NZ
- ADDED TO TER A TERRE AGENT ROSTER WORLDWIDE
- 2 x LIVE PERFORMANCES AT FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL IN JAPAN JULY 08

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- WWW.THEWOLFGANG.COM.AU
- WWW.ELECTRICVISUAL.COM
- WWW.SLEISHMANDRUMS.COM


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BIG IN JAPAN!?

That’s right friends, The Fumes debut album ‘Guns of Gold’ is now available in the domestic market in Japan on Blues Interaction Inc- P.Vine Records.

Our new friends in Japan have anointed our boys the ‘New Generation Jam Blues Rock! The one and only Blues Inc are Japans largest independent label and publisher since 1975. P-Vine Records have over 30 years experience in the industry.

They initially started as a re-issue label of American Soul and Blues music in the '70s, and now their catalogue has expanded to jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock, and reggae from all over the world. Their central aim, however, remains in the releases of blues and rock music and they have continued to release countless number of musicians. Some other recent releases include Koko Taylor, RL Burnside, The Slip, Rose Hill Drive and Iron & Wine.

Please see:
http://www.bls-act.co.jp/index
http://www.bls-act.co.jp/burnside/