Kick Music Management
After finishing 2009 with their acclaimed second album ‘Sundancer’ sitting at No 2 on Triple J’s Roots Album of The Year The Fumes are back in 2010 with a light hearted release and the final of the singles lifted from the album. ‘Rogue River Woman’ comes packaged with the accompanying video in a CD Rom format.
Laid out with inspired quirky hand drawn pictures depicting the two piece throughout with cartoonish personality and images as diverse as can can girls, tight rope walking and scenes from Godzilla and space the zany reel mashes the quandary of love and loss.
The release coincides with The Fumes taking to the road on tours with Clutch and Calexico from the US, their inclusion on this year’s Bluesfest in April and touring with Hoodoo Gurus in May all before their departure back to the States in June.
FULL TOUR DATES 2010
Fri 19th Feb- The Zoo, Brisbane w/ Clutch QLD
Weds 24th Feb- Factory Theatre, Sydney w/ Clutch SYD
Thurs 25th Feb- Prince Bandroom, Melbourne w/Clutch VIC
Sun 28th Feb- Great Northern Hotel w/ Calexico NSW
Tues 2nd Mar- Hi Fi, Brisbane w/ Calexico QLD
Weds 3rd Mar- Metro, Sydney w/ Calexico SYD
Mon 8th Mar- Prince of Wales, Melbourne w/ Calexico VIC
Wed 17th Mar- Beach Rd Hotel, Bondi NSW
Sat 3rd Apr– Sydney Royal Easter Show NSW
Sun 4th Apr- Bluesfest, Byron Bay NSW
Mon 5th Apr-Bluesfest, Byron Bay NSW
Fri 16th Apr-Hotel New York, Launceston TAS
Sat 17th Apr-Edge Radio Birthday & Radiothon, Hobart, TAS
Thurs 13th May-Newcastle Leagues Club, Newcastle w/ Hoodoo Gurus
Thurs 20th May- Oxford Art Factory, Sydney w/ Hoodoo Gurus
Fri 21st May-Oxford Art Factory, Sydney w/ Hoodoo Gurus
More Gurus dates soon
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Kick Music Management
1st July 2009
Sundancer - The Tour continues�
With an impressive number of stunning reviews for their second studio album �Sundancer� under their belt, a slew of impressed folk in the wake from the first of the Australian tour shows to support the release and a steady top 20 position in the AIR charts since its release. The Fumes announce round two. Taking in cities and towns they missed on the first jaunt, The Fumes express will be on the road again in August and September.
Read the band�s press and you may wonder how a mere two-piece can garner so much hype and histrionics. But in the case of geetar-slinger and mighty-bearded vocalist Steve Merry and drumming prodigy Joel Battersby, the gushing is with good reason.
�What I love about this record and The Fumes in general is there is no pretence. Excellent second record� - Rhythms June 2009
They�ve climbed to the top of the stack�- Top Pick- Australian Guitar.
�The quintessential rock band. �This album is just absolutely hell bent on being sensational.� Four & � stars elevenmagazine.com
�A much needed injection of goodness into the local scene in Australia.� -undercover.com.au
This Sydney duo can kick more than arse� three and � stars -Bernard Zuel, Sydney Monring Herald
�Fresh as the morning sun� Beat, Melbourne
�(�Sundancer�) places The Fumes army at the front of the Aussie rock scene.� Four stars-Time Off Brisbane
�This is an album that keeps on giving� -Rip it Up Adelaide
�4 stars!� The Age, Melbourne.
�Trust me The Fumes are smokin� 4 stars� The Australian.
Sundancer is in stores now thru Kick Music/MGM.
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PLEASE CONTACT tracey@kickmusic.com.au or 02 9522 0038 for more.
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TOUR DATES- www.myspace.com/thefumesoz
FRI 14 AUG & 15 AUG � THE VILLAGE FESTIVAL, Yeppoon Pony Club www.thevillagefestival.org.au/festlocation.html
FRI 21 AUG � COOLANGATTA HOTEL, COOLANGATTA
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
SAT 22 AUG � SANDS TAVERN, MAROOCHYDORE
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from Oztix www.oztix.com.au or 1300 762 545
WED 26 AUG � BEACH RD HOTEL, BONDI
Free Entry
THUR 27 AUG � BAROQUE, KATOOMBA
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets
FRI 28 AUG � HERITAGE HOTEL, BULLI
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from the venue: 240 Princes Hwy, Bulli or 02.4284 5884
SAT 29 AUG � TIME OUT FESTIVAL, CAIRNS
www.cairns.com.au/timeout
SAT 5 SEPT � JIVE, ADELAIDE
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from www.moshtix.com.au or Moshtix Outlets
WED 9 SEPT- STATION RESORT, JINDABYNE
Tickets: $20
www.moshtix.com.au or Perisher Tickets Jindabyne
Nuggets Crossing
PH (02) 6456 1659
THUR 10 SEPT �ANU BAR, CANBERRA
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Tickets available from www.ticketek.com.au or 132 849 and via ANU Ticketek Box Office � Level 1, Administration Office, Union Building (above the Bar).
FRI 11 SEPT � MANLY FISHOS
Tickets: $15 pre / $18 door
Manly Fishos, Mall Music Brookvale, Sandy's Records Dee Why, Leading Edge Warriewood Sq, Glass Avenue Newport
SAT 12 SEPT � COASTER, Gosford
www.coasterfestival.com.au
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Media Release - The Fumes in February..
The Fumes
HUGE MAGAZINE (JAPAN)- July 25th 2008
�Unbelievably skillful.�
�It is the sound of The Fumes that seizes the audience's attention and doesn�t let go�
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
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? [�>
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