Paul Gaughan - guitar John Fitzpatrick - keyboards
Michael Staunton - bass
Mike Arrigan - drums
Bio:
New wave/powerpop quintet from Galway. The Fuze won the Tramore Band Competition
in 1980. The prize was a single to be released on Mulligan Records in conjunction
with the organisers of the competition who called themselves Tramore. This is
the reason for the Tramore logo on the label of the band's debut single on
Mulligan "Stone Age Man". An LP featuring all finalists of the competition was
also considered but Mulligan and Tramore fell out almost immediately and these
plans were scrapped.
Mulligan were so impressed with The Fuze they signed them to a three single deal
and the band began recording suitable tracks for future singles at Windmill Lane.
Mulligan Records' finances became overextended promoting the Boomtown Rats in
the UK and they were unable to meet their commitments. They were subsequently
taken over, leaving The Fuze and bands like them with unpaid bills. This is how
the band came to pay for it's own debut single even though it was supposedly
released on Mulligan. They formed their own One Up label to promote it and
also designed a picture sleeve which bore the One Up logo. One Up also paid the
bands outstanding bills, including the recording costs of the second single,
which eventually came out on Release Records and charted in Ireland in July 1981.
Despite these two very strong singles and a solid live reputation across the
West, the type of label support necessary to record and release an LP in Ireland
at that time was not forthcoming and the band split late 1981 or early 1982.
They reformed again briefly a year or so later.
A selection of the band's many studio and live recordings has been assembled
into a 20 track retrospective CD called A Blast From The Past which will be
available soon from the band's own www.fuzesounds.com site.
Discography
• various artists - Vinyl Verdict
LP - Scoff Records - DTLP006 - IRL - 1981
See Compilations section for full track listing.
tracks: Zealano
• Stone Age Man / Zealano
7" - Mulligan Records - LUNS 745 - IRL - 1981 - some with PS
Some copies issued in a PS which used the same design as the poster pictured below.
These bear the bands own One Up Records logo.
• It's Sunday Morning / Insanity
7" - Release Records - RL1060 - IRL - July 1981 - PS
Produced by Donal Lunny
Reached #14 in Irish charts during a 5 week run in July/August 1981
• A Blast From The Past
CD - self-released - IRL - 12.10.2007
15 remastered studio recordings from the early '80's plus 5 live tracks.
tracklisting:
It's a Sunday Morning
Voices
Zealano
It's Not Too Late
Back In Time
Insanity
The Journey
Stone Age Man
New Boy
Scenes From a Movie
The Forces
Way Of Doin'
I Am a Soldier
Space Boys Never Die
Once In The Daytime
Mystical Forces (live at The Castle, Salthill)
I've Heard Angels (live at Peacocks, Maam Cross)
Invasion (live at The Carousel, Tramore)
Look What She's Done To Me (live at The Baggot Inn, Dublin)
Shining Star (live at the Western Hotel, Claremorris)
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