Fruit (band)
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'''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
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 are [[Mel Watson]] (lead vocalist, horn player, song writer), [[Susie Keynes]] (lead vocalist, guitarist, song writer) and [[Sam Lohs]] (lead vocalist, acoustic guitarist, song writer).
=== List of Awards ===
'''Australian Live Music Awards '''(ALMA's) [http://www.ausmusic.org.au/alma/winners.html]
*''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'''
# Mama Mama
# Burn
# Peace
# Skin
# Wait On
# Wind Blows
'''Burn''' (2005)
# A Thousand Days (Lohs)
# Lattitude (Keynes)
# Jennifer says Watson)
# No regrets (Watson)
# Almost lost my way (Keynes)
# If only for the sun (Lohs)
# if (Watson)
# Burn (Watson)
# Peace (Keynes)
# Wait on (Lohs)
# In between (Watson)
# Weather girl (Lohs)
# Cherish (Susie Keynes tribute to Vicki Nottage)
# All this time (Lohs)
# One fine day (Keynes)
'''Fruit The Trio Album - Live At The Church''' (2003)
# If Only For The Sun ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Alameda ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Intro Chat
# Peace ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Weather Girl ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Intro to Narrow
# Narrow ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# The Gift ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Nothing But Blood ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Thankyou Chat
# Love You So ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Wind Blows ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Alter Ego ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Shift ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Burn ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
'''Live At The Basement''' (2002)
# Wind Blows ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# All This Time ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Alameda ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Nothing But Blood ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Dreaming ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Mamma Mamma ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Island ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Human Condition ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Sunsets & Hurricanes ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Wild Angel ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Skin ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
'''Here For Days''' (2001)
# Sleeping In The Daytime
# Wind Blows
# Burnt and Crispy
# Romantic sentimentalist
# Alameda
# Wounded Child
# Yeah Yeah
# Cossip Queen
# 6 Thousand, 4 Hundred & 20 Something
# Mamma Mamma
# Wild Angel
# New York Buildings
# Tales And Truth
'''U.S. Limited Release Fruit EP''' (2000)
# Company & Crowds
# Nothing Higher
# Shift
# Gossip Queen
# Island
'''Shift, Recorded Live'''
# Magic (Live at JJJ)
# Breathe Me
# Alter Ego
# This Life
# Shift (Live at JJJ)
# Nothing but Blood
# The Gift
# Six Thousand, Four Hundred and Twenty Something
# Body Breakdown
# Little Things
# One Bite
# Turning to Blue
# Forever Young
# Time to Go
'''Skin''' (1997)
# Body Breakdown
# Little Things
# Game of Love
# One Bite
# Stay
# The Gift
# Skin
# Guardian of Sin
# Cool Desire
# Perpetual Dreaming ([[Jenna Bonavita|Bonavita]])
# Time to Go
# Body Breakdown (Remix)
'''Fruit''' (Self Titled, 1996)
# Tin Can ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Been There, Done That (Bradley)
# Rings Around Me ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Writing On The Wall (Bradley)
# Luscious ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]]/Watson)
# Sugar Plum (Watson)
# Dreaming ([[Susie Keynes|Keynes]])
# Turning To Blue ([[Sam Lohs|Lohs]])
# Forever Young ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
# Finally ([[Mel Watson|Watson]])
=== Solo Albums ===
==== [[Sam Lohs]] ====
'''We Trip Over Things''' (2006)
# Not a Lullabye
# One Minute
# Radiant
# Skin on Bone
# So Much More
# We Trip Over Things
# Salt
# Weather Girl
# Wait On
'''Six Degrees''' (1998)
# Alter Ego
# Violetta
# Starfish Park
# Tiffas Song
# Rush
# All The Lies
# If Only For The Sun
# No Violins
# Brave
# Six Degrees
# Token
==== [[Mel Watson]] ====
'''In Between''' (2003)
# Nineteen Seconds
# In Between
# Sailaway
# Come On
# Jennifer Says
# Love You So
# Observer
# If
# 24 7
# Lives For A Lie
# Sunsets And Hurricanes
'''Vox Humana''' (2001)
# Horn Addiction
# Family
# Illusion
# Remedy
# Magic - Slow Version
# Where Will We Go
# Space Machine
# Organic
# Narrow
# Wired
# Blind
#
# Think Of Me
==== [[Susie Keynes]] ====
'''Kiss For Her Fears''' (2002)
# These Things
# Sometime
# Inside My Mind
# Kiss For Her Tears
# Bedroom
# Washaway
# Roses
# Ridgeway
# Common Ground
# Round the Bend
# 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==
* [http://www.fruitmusic.com.au/ Official website for Fruit]
*[http://www.myspace.com/susiekeynes Susie Keynes at Myspace]
* [http://www.melwatson.com/ Official website for Mel Watson]
* [http://www.yanyaboston.com Official website for Yanya Boston]
* [http://www.myspace.com/melwatsonartist Mel Watson at Myspace]
* [http://www.sonicbids.com/MelWatson2 Mel Watson at Sonicbids]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Fruit Fruit collection] at the [[Internet Archive]]'s live music archive
[[Category:Australian rock music groups]]