KIM SALMON AND SMOKED SALMON ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE “FREUDIAN SLIPPERS” + KIM SALMON MINI TOUR

KIM SALMON AND SMOKED SALMON ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE “FREUDIAN SLIPPERS” + KIM SALMON MINI TOUR

FREDIAN SLIPPERS IS TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM TOTALLY SICK

MARCH 5 SINGLE RELEASE WILL CONICIDE WITH A KIM SALMON SOLO MINI-TOUR TAKING IN PERTH, MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY

Smoked Salmon, featuring Art School dropout, seminal punk rocker, and Scientists, Surrealists and Beasts of Bourbon living legend Kim Salmon, have announced the forthcoming release of a new 7″ single, taken from a new album entitled Totally Sick, which will be released mid-year.

The new single is “Freudian Slippers” and the B-side is “Seein’ Spots”, which won’t be on the album. It will be available on limited edition translucent purple 7″ vinyl (100 only), black 7″ vinyl and digitally.

Release date is 5 March 2026, with pre-orders available as of NOW from
https://kimsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/freudian-slippers

The new single is the first Smoked Salmon material to feature new drummer Michael Stranges, who previously worked with Kim in Precious Jules. Claire Birchall on guitar and keyboards and Jeff Hooker on bass complete the line-up. The two sides of the new single are both Salmon/Stranges co-writes

The single will coincide with a Kim Salmon solo mini-tour taking in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney:

KIM SALMON SOLO MINI TOUR
March 7 Perth – Lyric’s Underground (matinee)
March 14 Melbourne – Cactus Room (with support from Harpo Wah)
March 15 Sydney – Lazy Thinking Records (3-5 pm with support from Richie Weed)

Kim says of the new single, “Freudian Slippers, like all of the songs from the upcoming Totally Sick album from Smoked Salmon is another of those songs that got lost on the way ‘upstream’! It first appeared on the 2014 release from Kim and Leanne, True West. Kim and Leanne was conceived by Kim with Michael Stranges as a project to feature Leanne Cowie the Scientists drummer alongside Kim.

“Kim and Michael had been working under the guise of Precious Jules and this is essentially a PJs (as they liked to call themselves) production.

“Michael had the riff and Kim spontaneously sang ‘went to see my shrink and she said what do you think’ as a melody place holder over it. He joked that that it was a Freudian slip to sing such a line and Stranges, in true Stranges form, touchéd with the phrase ‘Freudian slippers’, and voilà! They went to work, nèe play, on it. K&L’s rendering tends toward the heavy Led Zep side of things whereas Smoked Salmon bring out some of the Prince style pop funk that was always hidden in the song.

“Speaking of hidden, the B-side ‘Seein’ Spots’ is another Precious Jules’ hidden gem dug up and polished by Smoked Salmon.”

SMOKED SALMON…

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!

KIM SALMON…

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.

 

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