FRUIT

Fruit are an indie rock band from Adelaide, Australia often compared to the Indigo Girls. The group was formed in 1996.In 2003 they won the "Best Live Album" trophy at the Australian Live Music Awards.Their latest (June 2005) album is Burn. Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Adelaide is the capital city of the Australian state of South Australia. ... The Indigo Girls are an American folk-rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. ...

Fruit's first studio release was 1997's 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. George Michael George Michael (born June 25, 1963) is a Greek-British pop singer/songwriter born in East Finchley, London. ... Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in London), better known as Phil Collins, is a British rock/pop musician. ... Echo & the Bunnymen is a British rock group formed in Liverpool in 1978. ... The original line-up of Guns N Roses. ...

Achivements

Fruit has spent the past five years solidly touring internationally throughout the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, South America, Asia and New Zealand

• 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 World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) is a festival started in England in 1982. ...

• 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).