Bruno Adams was born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia, in 1963 and moved to Melbourne in 1978. There, he became part of the embryonic Punk/New Wave scene, playing with musicians from The Saints, Crime And The City Solution, and Laughing Clowns. In 1984 he formed his own band, Once Upon A Time. They played Melbourne’s clubs from 1985 to 1988, building a reputation for apocalyptic live shows with their avant-garde psychedelic blues sound. They moved to Berlin in 1989 and supported Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds throughout Europe on The Good Son tour of 1990. A European tour supporting Swans followed in the early 1990’s. Once Upon A Time released three C.D.s: Once Upon A Time (1990); In The Blink Of An Eye (1992); and Don’t Look Down (1994). The band finished in 1996.
Phil Shoenfelt was born in Bradford, England, in 1952. After colliding with the London Punk scene in the mid-1970’s, he moved to New York where he formed the post-punk noise band Khmer Rouge. In the early 1980’s they supported acts such as Suicide, Tom Verlaine, and The Clash and are featured on the White Columns Noise Festival Tape which also includes early versions of Sonic Youth and Swans. In New York they were managed by Nat Finkelstein, author of The Factory Years and renowned photographer of The Velvet Underground. Khmer Rouge returned to London in 1984 and after supporting The Fall on two British tours split in 1986. In 1989 Shoenfelt began a solo career, and in 1995 moved to Prague in The Czech Republic where he is still living. He has released several C.D.s, solo and also with his Czech backing band Southern Cross. The three CDs with Southern Cross are: Blue Highway (1997); Dead Flowers For Alice (1999); and Ecstatic (2002). He has also had two books published in Czech translation by Mata books of Prague: Junkie Love/Fet’áska Láská (1997) and The Green Hotel/Zelen_ Hotel (1998). Junkie Love was published in English by Twisted Spoon publishing house in autumn 2001.
Chris Hughes was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1968. He was a founding member of Once Upon A Time and also of Hugo Race And The True Spirit. Since arriving in Europe in 1989 he has played and recorded with: Nina Hagen, Mick Harvey, Nikki Sudden, Rolf Goldkind, Roland S. Howard, and many others. His unique style of explosive yet well-anchored syncopations leaves its unmistakable mark on every project he is a part of. Hughes is currently working on his solo project Hughes Leisure Group, some tracks of which appear on the C.D. Wet Dream by Hugo Race And The True Spirit. He was also a member of the Berlin-based Industrial-Ambient collective Snowcrash, and plays with the psychedelic garage band The Methylated Spirits.
Fatal Shore play an extended version of Townes Van Zandt's 2 minute "Snake Song", at the manipulation night at Palac Akropolis, Prague, 03.03.07
Influences
Fatal Shore video from 1999 of World Away.
Sounds Like
Fatal Shore on Czech TV music show, 60's. First broadcast in 1999.
THE FATAL SHORE www.myspace.com/fatalshore www.fatal-shore.de.
The Fatal Shore is a Berlin-based band formed in 1996, by the getting together of two unique but complimentary Singer/songwriters - Phil Shoenfelt and Bruno Adams - for a hectic tour of war-ravaged Bosnia- Herzegovina. While en-route to Gorazde, they came under fire from Serbian snipers and were attacked by axe wielding mujahadeen in delnice. Under the motto, “what doesn’t killer you makes you stronger” they expanded the partnership into a full band with the adding of Chris Hughes on drums, and later, bass player Yoyo Röhm in 2001.
The first Fatal Shore self-titled CD (1999 Moloko + D) was recorded in Lucanec, Slovakia, during the hight of the Moravian floods. On route to the studio the band were held hostage in their train cabin by pistol waving Ukrainian guest workers, insisting on “one more song”. The resulting self-titled album comprises a set of traditionally based cover and original songs, performed in the Fatal Shore’s corrosive style of very dark, psychedelic blues.
On the invitation of American record producer Dan May in April 2001, the band flew to Covington, Kentucky, to record the follow-up Fatal Shore CD, Free Fall, (2003 Moloko + PLUS 067). May had heard the group’s first CD by chance, and within a few weeks the Fatal Shore were flying out of Berlin. The bizarre events continued after they arrived at The Church, a converted nineteenth century catholic church, filled with strange vibrations and May’s collection of automatic weapons, war memorabilia and strange hangers-on. The recording was finally completed two hours before the group’s flight left for Berlin. The result is a collection of classic songs, ringing with the eerie environs of “The Church”.
The Fatal Shore’s latest album, Real World, was released on the new Hamburg label Amboss Recordings, in March 2007. It is the first Fatal Shore album to be recorded in the relative calm of Berlin. With Local wunderkind Baxter Wilderbeast’s production and arrangement’s, Adams and Shoenfelt’s Classic Songs are taken to a new level. With strong string arrangements, and melodic, rhythmic and textural overdubs, Wilderbeast’s vision is brilliantly realized - from the eerie Singing Saw on “The Looking Glass Song”, to the rousing stings and circular Xylophone motif on “Faithless”.
What makes the Fatal Shore unique is the canyon deep voices and monumental song writing of Adams and Shoenfelt; The enigmatic patterns and wild syncopations of Hughes’s drums, back by Röhm’s steadfast bass lines; The interweaving of Schoenfelt’s lilting rytham Guitar and Adams’s panoramic lead lines; And the band's ability to fit seemingly effortlessly together a wide range of influences, from the Delta Blues of Robert Johnson, to songwriters such as Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohn, Nick Cave and Townes Van Zandt, to the sound scapes of Einstürzende Neubauten and Can.
Real World is now available through mail order from www.Glitterhouse.com.
The Fatal Shore will be touring: Germany, Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic and Hungry, in May 2008.
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Greetings from Solaris Empire! My Sister Grenadine's magical debut album 'Shine in the Dark' is out on July 18. across Germany. Come and celebrate with us!
Thank you for accepting me. My friends and I hope to see you soon in Vienna again. To listen to you live is definitely a one of a kind experience I can't get enough of. For the while I keep my stereo busy with your CDs. Yours respectfully Su
Listening to your Real World, one of the most fantastic songs ever...So much looking forward for your gig in Prague in the end of May. My lights gonna be dark, deep, intense and blood blood red as your blues and rockin blood is!
Dear Sirs.. from my fatal band.. so I think your gig must have been GREAT - when I am reading the responses. Looking forward very much to the Copenhagen and Prague and Brno... yeah! Cheers'n'kisses from Brno, az
your berlin show yesterday was the best live gig I..ve seen in this city since ages (even if the roland didn..t worked out because of the broken DI Box) ;=)
nothing left to say .. just I am totaly Impressed ..
