Fuser is Ian Black

(guitar/vocals), Jason Clarke (bass), Rob Fleming (guitar) and Dave Morello (drums).

 

They first rocked

the NZ music scene in 2006 with the release of their debut album, ‘Fuser’. And

they certainly fell firmly on their feet. It wasn’t long before heads in the

music industry began to spin and take notice of this Auckland based Power/Pop

ensemble.

 

Soon after the

release of ‘Fuser’, two of the band’s songs were chosen for the ‘NZ on Air’

funded programme, ‘Off the Record,’ a show run by ‘The Rock’ radio station. Through

‘The Rock’, Fuser was a recipient of the ‘Rock Scholarship.’ If all this wasn’t

enough for a band in their first year, they also completed a Nationwide NZ

tour, and had their song The Rules

included on a compilation CD for UK magazine, ‘Rocksound’ – an honour

shared with other great kiwi acts like BlindSpott and Red Line.

 

2007 saw the

release of the ‘NZ on Air’ funded video You

Will Know which received airplay on music channel ‘C4’. This was also the

year Fuser began to mature as a live band. At their inception, though all

individually experienced musicians, Fuser was purely a studio project and the

guys had little live performance experience together. So what’s the best way to

hone the art of the live show Jump out of the pan and into the fire of course!

The band gigged

relentlessly as either headliners or as support for The

Bleeders, The Tutts. Jordan Luck and Storm Large from the TV show `Rockstar

Supernova.’ They also completed a Nationwide tour supporting Las Vegas all girl

rock band Jaggedy Ann.

 

Things just got

better in 2008 with five of the band’s songs featuring in the ‘Demon Energy

Supercross’ TV show.

 

Right now Fuser’s

primary focus is their next album, with both Matt Thomas (The Feelers) and Dave

Goodison (City Newton Bombers) on board to share production duties. Look out

for its release in May of 2011 – the production is huge, the songs infectious

and it will demonstrate just how far Fuser has come in a short period of time.

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