Fruit

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

Fruit are an indie rock band from Adelaide, Australia often compared to the Indigo Girls. The group was formed in 1995. In 2003 they won the "Best Live Album" trophy at the Australian Live Music Awards.Their latest (June 2005) album is Burn.

Originally formed in 1995 by a chance meeting following a request for two groups of three to perform together at an Adelaide show:

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 the show... way too much fun ensued and 15years later they are still performing (together and separately) in numerous locations across the globe!:)

All the members had known each other from various previous incarnations:

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

"Breathe": Sam Lohs, Adam Budgen (future sound engineer)

"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", followed by the much acclaimed "Skin"; then they delivered Shift Live in 1999, Here For Days in 2001 and 2002's award-winning Fruit Live At The Basement. Here For Days, which was recorded with UK producer Paul Gomersall (who has worked with George Michael, Phil Collins, Echo & the Bunnymen, even Guns N' Roses), climbed to the #3 spot in the Australian Independent Charts.

Awards & Achievements

Fruit spent ten years solidly touring internationally throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, South America, Asia and New Zealand. For the last 18months they have been on an extended hiatus and have been pursuing various personal projects.

• Voted "Best Up & Coming Live Act in Australia" – 2001 Australian Live Music Awards
• Voted "Best Live Album" for Live at the Basement – 2003 Australian Live Music Awards
• Record breaking CD sales at festivals across the world including WOMAD Seattle USA, WOMAD Reading UK, Bethlehem Musik Fest USA
• Recent signing to Larrikin Music Publishing/Music Sales Corporation globally

In a musical climate where the word "independent" is tossed about a bit too freely, Fruit truly define independence from running their own record label to unloading their own equipment to planning their own future.

Fruit's most recent lineup consists of Mel Watson (lead vocalist, horn player, songwriter), Susie Keynes (lead vocalist, guitarist, songwriter) and Sam Lohs (lead vocalist, acoustic guitarist, songwriter).

List of Awards

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

• Best Live Album in Australia
  • 2003 - Fruit "Live at the Basement"
  • 2002 - Fruit "Live at the Basement"

• Best Tour Manger
  • 2003 - Sue Arlidge

• Best Up and Coming Live Act in Australia
  • 2001 - Fruit

• Best Emerging Act in South Australia
  • 2001 - Fruit

• Best Live Act in Australia
  • 2001 - Fruit (Nomination)

Queen's Trust Award for Young Australians

• Mel Watson (for The Into One Project)

South Australian Music Awards (SAMI's)

• Most Outstanding Instrumentalist
  • 2003 - Mel Watson
  • 1998 - Mel Watson
  • 1997 - Mel Watson
  • 1996 - Mel Watson
  • 1995 - Mel Watson

• Most Outstanding Songwriter
  • 2003 - Mel Watson (Nomination)
  • 1997 - Sam Lohs (Nomination)

• Most Outstanding Vocalist
  • 2003 - Mel Watson (Nomination)
  • 1997 - Susie Keynes (Nomination)

• Most Outstanding Release
  • 1996 - "Fruit"
  • 1997 - "Skin" (Nomination)

• Most Outstanding Band
  • 1998 - Fruit

• Most Outstanding Group or Individual
  • 1996
  • 1997 (Nomination)

• Most Outstanding S.A. Release
  • 1998 - 'Shift' Live @ the Gov & JJJ, Fruit

• Achievement Award
  • 1998 - Fruit, for independent touring
  • 1997 - Mel Watson & Bev Luff for The Into One Project

• Most Outstanding Live Engineer
  • 1998 - Adam Budgen

• Most Outstanding CD Artwork
  • 1998 - Miska Graphics, Rachel Harris & Andy Rasheed Photography for 'Shift'

• Most Outstanding Guitarist
  • 1998 - Anthony Scott

• Most Outstanding Bass Player
  • 1997 - Jenna Bonavita
  • 1998 - Anthony Scott

• Most Outstanding Drummer
  • 1998, 1997 - Catherine Oates

• Most Outstanding Video
  • 1997 - Mel Watson & Bev Luff for The Into One Project

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

2006

• FRUIT "Wait On" National Tour
• Fruit come out from the cold
• 2006 Northern Summer

2005

• Australian Summer Tour
• US - Canada Fall 2005
• Burn around Australia
• 2005 North American "BURN" Release Tour
• 2005 Australian "BURN" Release Tour
• 2005 North America Winter Tour

2004

• 2004 North America Tour
• 2004 Australia & Germany Release Tour

2003

• 2003 North America Tour

2002

• 2002 North America Winter Tour

2001

• 2001 North America Winter Tour
• 2001 North America & UK Summer Tour
• 2001 Australia Tour

2000 and earlier

• 2000 International Tours
• 1999 International Tours
• 1998 International Tours
• 1997 International Tours

Sponsors

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

External links

• Official website for Fruit
• Susie Keynes at Myspace
• Official website for Mel Watson
• Official website for Yanya Boston
• Mel Watson at Myspace
• Mel Watson at Sonicbids
• Fruit collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive