With a new album ‘Totally Sick’ on the way, Kim Salmon, international doyen and legend of the indie music scene, is packing up his his Smoked Salmon and taking his sonic wares across the length and breadth of Australia.
It’s a comprehensive tour that will give eager audiences the pleasure of seeing Salmon and his band showcasing the new album (a few tasty morsels already having been released into the wild), and a lifetime of brilliant music. and live, he is always an absolute electrifying delight. The dates are:
Fri July 24 – Mojo’s, Fremantle – Tix
Sat July 25 – Prince of Wales, Bunbury – Tix
Fri July 31 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine – Tix
Sat Aug 1 – Shotkickers, Thornbury – Tix
Sun Aug 2 – Wheatsheaf, Adelaide – Tix
Thu Aug 6 – La La La’s, Wollongong – Tix
Fri Aug 7 – Petersham Bowling Club, Petersham – Tix
Sat Aug 8 – Link & Pin, Woy Woy – Tix
Sun Aug 9 – The Oak Tighes Hill, Newcastle – free show
Fri Aug 14 – Tanswells, Beechworth – free show
Sat Aug 15 – Smiths Alternative, Canberra – Tix
Fri Aug 21 – Republic Bar, Hobart – Tix
Sat Aug 22 – Royal Oak, Launceston – Tix
Fri Aug 28 – Junk Bar, Brisbane – Tix
Sat Aug 29 – Blah Bar, Lismore – Tix
Sun Aug 30 – Cabarita Beach Club, Cabarita – free show
Fri Sep 4 – Young St Tavern, Frankson – tix
The band says of the forthcoming album, out on 29 May:
Songs for when you’re not feeling so good? Songs for when you need to take a sickie? Feeling fully sick?! Need a bit of a lie down ?! Need something to get you on the road to recovery?! Kim Salmon’s had the prescriptions for you throughout the nineties, the naughties and NOW! Fix Me Up, There’s A Virus Going Round, cos Everybody’s Out Of Town so get into your Freudian Slippers while Smoked Salmon bring you their catchiest strains!
Get Totally Sick Now!!
It’s out through the inimitable Cheersquad Records & Tapes on 29 May and available in all sorts of queasy colours:
Kim Salmon of course needs no introduction, but, as is always the way, I will anyway: leader of the legendary swamp pioneers The Scientists (who reformed last year for a series of gigs) and The Beasts of Bourbon, he has been at the very beating heart of indie music in Australia and leading the world with the paisley-tinged grunge that emanated from Western Australia in the eighties: a true pioneer and often labelled as the ‘Godfather of Grunge’.
Smoked Salmon is an international collective of musicians serving the great genius.
Feature Photograph: Maxine Pryce
