Kim Salmon’s SMOKED SALMON Announce 2025 Album Tour

KIM SALMON’S SMOKED SALMON ANNOUNCE ALBUM TOUR

SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT FEB 28TH!

Kim Salmon‘s new outfit SMOKED SALMON have announced a national tour to promote their forthcoming self-titled debut album, which is out February 28 on Cheersquad. As per dates below, the tour will span March and the first 2 weeks of April and will take in Perth, Freo, Margaret River, Castlemaine, Canberra, Wollongong, Sydney, Newcastle, Geelong, Brisbane, Gold coast, Bangalow and Adelaide before finishing back in Melbourne.

The announcement follows the launch of the video for “Hell in a Handbasket”, which is the second single from the forthcoming album. “Hell in a Handbasket” debuted at #2 on the AIR 100% Independant Singles follows previous single “How Did they Ever Manage” which debuted at #1 on the chartin September.

Backseat Mafia‘s Arun Kendall said of the first single: “Salmon’s ‘How Did They Ever Manage’ is an incredibly satisfying wry and visceral slice of grunge pop that slices and dices the febrile air with its glam stomp and sardonic pop delivery. It’s excoriating and vital, slightly chaotic with a buzzsaw spine and a pulse.” 

SMOKED SALMON is the latest project for the Scientists/Beasts of Bourbon/Beasts co-founder member and internationally revered avant-garde artrocker Kim Salmon.

SMOKED SALMON ALBUM TOUR DATES
– all shows on sale TUES. JAN. 14TH –

• Fri Mar 7 – Lyric Lane, Perth – Tix
• Sat Mar 8 – Gerry’s Gold Neighbourhood Laneway Music Festival, Gerry’s Lane, Freo (Kim solo)      
• Sat Mar 8 – Mojo’s, Fremantle – Tix
• Sun Mar 9 – The River, Margaret River (Kim solo)    
• Fri Mar 14 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, Vic – Tix
• Thu Mar 20 – Smiths Alternative, Canberra – Tix
• Fri Mar 21 – La La La’s, Wollongong – Tix
• Sat Mar 22 – Petersham Bowling Club, Sydney – Tix 
• Sun Mar 30 – Barwon Club, Geelong – Tix
• Fri Apr 4 – Bearded Lady, Brisbane – Tix
• Sat Apr 5 – Vinnie’s Dive Bar, Gold Coast – Tix
• Sun Apr 6 – Bangalow Bowlo, Bangalow, NSW – Tix
• Fri Apr 11 – The Grace Emily, Adelaide – Tix
• Sat Apr 12 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne – Tix

The new single “Hell In A Handbasket”…

So, it’s October 2023 at the end of Smoked Salmon‘s tour of France with the French lineup of Kim, Doug, Dimi & Delphine (Smoked Salmon in 3D on the merch tee shirts). Dimi’s got some connections and gets the band a couple of days recording near his home. 

A year and a bit later, “Hell In A Handbasket” from that session is out as Smoked Salmon’s 2nd single! 

The band is embarking on its 2nd Australian tour since recording its debut album (out next February). The single is #2 on the AIR ( look it up) charts 1st week in. Following their 1st film clip for “How Did They Ever Manage” they’ve re-enlisted the considerable talents of Benny J Ward to do what he would with lip synced footage from the band members interspersed with some crazy ink drawn visions of Hell from Kim.

The results are somewhat like being in an episode of Get Smart at a Kaos party and someone’s spiked the punch with acid and there’s fuzz guitar and day glow triple exposure all round! What’s not to love about it! 

Smoked Salmon‘s debut album, which is self-titled, will be released on February 28, 2025, and will comprise a selection of new material that sits seamlessly alongside ‘the old stuff you love’ (ie The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists and Antenna), all lovingly performed by an international cast. Stay tuned for further information.

Medieval depictions of Hell seem appropriate for a Dark Ages demographic. You know?! One informed by ignorance, superstition, greed, vindictiveness, cruelty. All the medieval stuff! 

Well, waddya know!? 

“Hell in a Handbasket” might’ve come to Kim Salmon in a burst last year but it’d been brewing since Brexit.  His bleak appraisal of current world events is straight outta Bosch!

On this second single from the forthcoming Smoked Salmon album, French rhythm section and vocalists Delphine Ciampi and Dimi Dero team up with Salmon to deliver this blistering descent into hell. Recorded on tour in Perpignan, France by Sylvain Philipon, “Hell in a Handbasket” features all original artwork from Kim Salmon. The B-Side is “These Grooves are Haunted”, a maniacal slice of stomping glam rock performed by the Smoked Salmon Melbourne Chapter and recorded by Henry Hugo.

Smoked Salmon’s new single “Hell in a Handbasket”/”These Grooves Are Haunted” is available now digitally and on four limited edition 7″ vinyl colour variants:

• 50 x recycled green
• 50 x recycled red
• 100 x opaque red
• 100 x black

ORDER NOW FROM kimsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/hell-in-a-handbasket

The name ‘Smoked Salmon’ was begging to be used! Kim Salmon had been ignoring it for decades but finally gave in after being called on for a benefit for the Firefighters at the start of 2020. Smoked Salmon came to be the players stationed over in the west, in France, up in NSW and handy in his hometown Melbourne whenever he needed a band. And who doesn’t need a band? He could play shows most anywhere! He could even take an ensemble into a studio under the banner of Smoked Salmon – which he eventually did.

Smoked Salmon is a concept, a collection of recordings, a collective, a philosophy of least resistance flowing from a reputation for resolutely going against the stream! Wait a minute! Least resistance? Against the stream? Here’s the clincher. You can do both!  Kim still has the desire to go upstream but has found a great source of new repertoire fishing in the streams from whence such classics as “Frantic Romantic”, “Last Night”, “Dropout”, “Come On Spring” and “Swampland” sprang!

With Smoked Salmon, Kim has a new album of material that sits seamlessly alongside ‘the old stuff you love’ (from The Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, Surrealists and Antenna), all lovingly assembled and performed by an international cast.

Dimi Dero; Delphine Ciampi; Sylvain Philipon; Todd Pickett; Jozeph Grech; Claire Birchall; Douglas Galbraith; Myles Mumford; Finn Keane; Sam Worrad; Jeffery Baker and Jeff Hooker all come together to create an episode in the musical adventure of Kim Salmon’s life. An episode that you miss at your own peril!

Kim Salmon BIO
Art School dropout, seminal punk rocker, and living legend.

Born into the isolation of the semi-industrial wastelands of 1950s outer suburban Perth, Kim Salmon clawed his way out of the swamp and onto the world stage in his bands, the Scientists, the Surrealists, and the Beasts of Bourbon.

Conjuring the nascent snarls of antipodean punk rock in the late 1970’s, Salmon formed the Cheap Nasties at the very crest of the wave, simultaneously making seminal punk music in far flung Perth as the Saints were in Brisbane, Radio Birdman in Sydney and Nick Cave with the Boys Next Door in Melbourne. When the Cheap Nasties split asunder, Kim formed the Scientists, adding explosive pop to the punk raunch.

As the 80’s dawned, Salmon rematerialized in Sydney with a new line-up of the Scientists, and a new sound was born. Dark, primitive, swampy, demented – this was punk, rock n roll, psychobilly and blues all at once – but it was something new too. In the early 90’s Seattle based Grunge would sell millions of records worldwide. In Australia, over a decade earlier, Grunge was simply the noise of the Scientists.

Often referred to as “The Godfather of Grunge” he is cited as a seminal influence on countless bands including Mudhoney, Nirvana, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The White Stripes, Sonic Youth, The Drones and Spacemen 3. Internationally acclaimed, Kim Salmon has played with the likes The Stooges, Television, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, The Cramps, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, The Pop Group and even U2.

Kim Salmon has earned his reputation as an authentic artist incapable of choosing the safe road. For nearly fifty years, he has performed on the world’s biggest stages and with the most remote punk bands; traversing every corner of music and art to create a body of work that stands up with the best.

Kim Salmon is not slowing down.

In recent years he has reignited the legendary Scientists, releasing singles, an EP and full-length album with the classic mark 2 line up – touring nationally as well as America and Europe.

The Beasts (nee Beasts of Bourbon) have completed barnstorming national tours and released a new album. 

With the Surrealists, Kim composed, performed and recorded a double album live on camera during the height of the pandemic.

Celebrating his fallen comrades, Kim has written and performed his Haunted Grooves show combining storytelling, songs and pictures – capturing the emotional tales and performances in a soon to be released double LP.

With his latest band, Smoked Salmon, he has toured Europe and Japan – combining classic moments from across his career with a soon-to-be-released album of brand-new original songs.

Despite being the original art school dropout, Kim has turned his younger predilection for drawing into a burgeoning visual art career, with several solo and joint exhibitions and a successful artist in residence sojourn in WA.

Stay in touch with Kim Salmon…

Social Media:
Facebook