Fruit (band)

Fruit

Fruit performing at Thundering Women, June 2004,
with special guest Wendell Ferguson
Background information
Origin Adelaide, Australia
Years active 1995 (1995)–2006
Labels Independent
Associated acts Redhead
Website fruitmusic.com.au
Past members
Susie Keynes
Sam Lohs
Mel Watson
Yanya Boston
Brian Ruiz
Catherine Oates

Fruit are an indie folk rock band from Adelaide, Australia. The group was formed in 1995, and consists of Mel Watson (lead vocalist, horn player, songwriter), Susie Keynes (lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), Sam Lohs (lead vocalist, acoustic guitarist, songwriter), Yanya Boston (drums, percussion), and Brian Ruiz (Bass guitar). In 2003 they won the "Best Live Album" award at the Australian Live Music Awards. Their most recent album is Burn, which was released in June 2005.

Contents

History

Formation and early years

Fruit was originally formed in 1995 by a chance meeting following a request for two groups of three to perform together at a local show in Adelaide:

Group 1: Jenna Bonavita, Mel Watson, Catherine Oates Group 2: Miranda Bradley, Sam Lohs, Susie Keynes

The six members decided to rehearse together to do an encore performance at the end of their shows. It was later decided that they would combine their talents into one band, which became known as Fruit. All the members had known each other from various bands that they had been part of:

Emerald Sun: Mel Watson, Jenna Bonavita, Daniel Schultze, Yanya Boston

Breathe: Sam Lohs, Adam Budgen (future sound engineer for the band)

Fresh Air: Catherine Oates, Jenna Bonavita, Padma Newsome, Dylan Woolcock, Quincy La

Kai's Dilemma: Miranda Bradley, Susie Keynes, Clive Conway, Ashley Shepherd

Fruit's first studio release was the award winning 1996 self-titled release "Fruit", which was then followed by the much acclaimed "Skin". Their first live album, Shift Live, was released in 1999, which contained songs from their first two albums, as well as previously unreleased songs.

Later years and hiatus

The band returned with their third studio record, Here For Days, in 2001. It was recorded with UK producer Paul Gomersall (who has worked with George Michael, Phil Collins, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Guns N' Roses), climbed to the #3 spot in the Australian Independent Charts. Their second live album, Live at the Basement, was released in 2002, and contained a number of new and old songs. The album won the Best Live Album award at the Australian Live Music Awards in 2003.

2005 saw the release of the album Burn. The album was produced by the Grammy nominated David Ivory, and was recorded in Philadelphia. The band have since gone on an indefinite hiatus; Susie Keynes has been quoted as saying that Fruit is 'off the road for the time being'.[1] The three head members of the band are now currently pursuing other musical endeavours.

List of awards and achievements

Australian Live Music Awards (ALMA's) [1]

Queen's Trust Award for Young Australians

South Australian Music Awards

Discography

Fruit albums

Fruit - selections from

  1. Mama Mama
  2. Burn
  3. Peace
  4. Skin
  5. Wait On
  6. Wind Blows

Burn (2005)

  1. A Thousand Days (Lohs)
  2. Latitude (Keynes)
  3. Jennifer says Watson)
  4. No regrets (Watson)
  5. Almost lost my way (Keynes)
  6. If only for the sun (Lohs)
  7. if (Watson)
  8. Burn (Watson)
  9. Peace (Keynes)
  10. Wait on (Lohs)
  11. In between (Watson)
  12. Weather girl (Lohs)
  13. Cherish (Susie Keynes tribute to Vicki Nottage)
  14. All this time (Lohs)
  15. One fine day (Keynes)

Fruit The Trio Album - Live At The Church (2003)

  1. If Only For The Sun (Lohs)
  2. Alameda (Watson)
  3. Intro Chat
  4. Peace (Keynes)
  5. Weather Girl (Lohs)
  6. Intro to Narrow
  7. Narrow (Watson)
  8. The Gift (Keynes)
  9. Nothing But Blood (Lohs)
  10. Thankyou Chat
  11. Love You So (Watson)
  12. Wind Blows (Keynes)
  13. Alter Ego (Lohs)
  14. Shift (Keynes)
  15. Burn (Watson)

Live At The Basement (2002)

  1. Wind Blows (Keynes)
  2. All This Time (Lohs)
  3. Alameda (Watson)
  4. Nothing But Blood (Lohs)
  5. Dreaming (Keynes)
  6. Mamma Mamma (Watson)
  7. Island (Lohs)
  8. Human Condition (Watson)
  9. Sunsets & Hurricanes (Watson)
  10. Wild Angel (Keynes)
  11. Skin (Lohs)

Here For Days (2001)

  1. Sleeping In The Daytime
  2. Wind Blows
  3. Burnt and Crispy
  4. Romantic sentimentalist
  5. Alameda
  6. Wounded Child
  7. Yeah Yeah
  8. Cossip Queen
  9. 6 Thousand, 4 Hundred & 20 Something
  10. Mamma Mamma
  11. Wild Angel
  12. New York Buildings
  13. Tales And Truth

U.S. Limited Release Fruit EP (2000)

  1. Company & Crowds
  2. Nothing Higher
  3. Shift
  4. Gossip Queen
  5. Island

Shift, Recorded Live

  1. Magic (Live at JJJ)
  2. Breathe Me
  3. Alter Ego
  4. This Life
  5. Shift (Live at JJJ)
  6. Nothing but Blood
  7. The Gift
  8. Six Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Something
  9. Body Breakdown
  10. Little Things
  11. One Bite
  12. Turning to Blue
  13. Forever Young
  14. Time to Go

Skin (1997)

  1. Body Breakdown
  2. Little Things
  3. Game of Love
  4. One Bite
  5. Stay
  6. The Gift
  7. Skin
  8. Guardian of Sin
  9. Cool Desire
  10. Perpetual Dreaming (Bonavita)
  11. Time to Go
  12. Body Breakdown (Remix)

Fruit (Self Titled, 1996)

  1. Tin Can (Lohs)
  2. Been There, Done That (Bradley)
  3. Rings Around Me (Keynes)
  4. Writing On The Wall (Bradley)
  5. Luscious (Lohs/Watson)
  6. Sugar Plum (Watson)
  7. Dreaming (Keynes)
  8. Turning To Blue (Lohs)
  9. Forever Young (Watson)
  10. Finally (Watson)

Solo albums

Sam Lohs

We Trip Over Things (2006)

  1. Not a Lullabye
  2. One Minute
  3. Radiant
  4. Skin on Bone
  5. So Much More
  6. We Trip Over Things
  7. Salt
  8. Weather Girl
  9. Wait On

Six Degrees (1998)

  1. Alter Ego
  2. Violetta
  3. Starfish Park
  4. Tiffas Song
  5. Rush
  6. All The Lies
  7. If Only For The Sun
  8. No Violins
  9. Brave
  10. Six Degrees
  11. Token

Mel Watson

In Between (2003)

  1. Nineteen Seconds
  2. In Between
  3. Sailaway
  4. Come On
  5. Jennifer Says
  6. Love You So
  7. Observer
  8. If
  9. 24 7
  10. Lives For A Lie
  11. Sunsets And Hurricanes

Vox Humana (2001)

  1. Horn Addiction
  2. Family
  3. Illusion
  4. Remedy
  5. Magic - Slow Version
  6. Where Will We Go
  7. Space Machine
  8. Organic
  9. Narrow
  10. Wired
  11. Blind
  12. Think Of Me

Susie Keynes

Kiss For Her Fears (2002)

  1. These Things
  2. Sometime
  3. Inside My Mind
  4. Kiss For Her Tears
  5. Bedroom
  6. Washaway
  7. Roses
  8. Ridgeway
  9. Common Ground
  10. Round the Bend
  11. Hilltops

List of notable tours

Fruit spent ten years solidly touring internationally throughout the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, South America, Asia and New Zealand.

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000 and earlier

Sponsors

Among Fruit's sponsors are Internode, Marlin & Co, Sonor and PocketMail.

References

  1. ^ http://www.myspace.com/susiekeynes/blog/237644399

External links