The Blackwater Fever hit the road again starting this Friday with dates across
February and March. Joining forces on most of the dates is the equally seething dark
and moody blues sultress Kira Puru & The Bruise.

These shows come at the tail end of recording sessions for TBWF.
Constructing their third full length album tentatively titled… The Depths.

Catch the band on the following dates with new material in tow.

Fri 17th Feb – Spotted Cow, Toowoomba
w/ Rattlehand
www.spottedcow.com.au

Sun 26th Feb – Move Mountain Festival, Toowoomba
www.movemountainsfestival.com

Fri 9th March – The Beetle Bar, Brisbane
w/ Kira Piru & The Bruise, Silent Feature Era
www.beetlebar.com.au

Sat 10th March – The Loft, Gold Coast
w/ Kira Piru & The Bruise, Jackson Dunn
www.facebook.com/TheLoftChevronIsland

Fri 23rd March – Good God ‘Small Club’, Sydney
w/ Kira Piru & The Bruise, The Preachers
www.goodgodgoodgod.com

Fri 30th March – The Tote, Melbourne
w/ Kira Piru & The Bruise, TBA
www.thetotehotel.com

Fri 30th March – The Pony, Melbourne
(Late 2am slot)
www.pony.net.au

We super pumped to announce that The Blackwater Fever are playing the 2012  Gold Coast Big Day Out!

Full lineup here >
Time table here  >

The Blackwater Fever’s track ‘All Night Long’ was featured on ABC’s Body of Proof season 2 episode 10 in the US last night.

At first listen, The Blackwater Fever evokes a swampy, dirty sound that conjures up the dark, mysterious American South; dense and heavy forested places you don’t want to happen upon alone. Their full sound quickly creates the illusion that every band member – four, maybe five— operate on high octane.

So imagine my surprise. The Blackwater Fever is Australian, not American. Band members? They’re a power duo.

READ MORE HERE >>

Listen & download acoustic versions of ‘Taking Its Toll’ & ‘Sweet Misery’ performed by Jed and Shane at 98.9FM from our BandCamp. Get it for free or pay want you want.

From the packaging to the tunes, this slab of swampy blues from Brissie duo The Blackwater Fever is old-school garage rock the way it should be. Continue Reading…

The Blackwater Fever’s In Stereo is their second full-length album and if it were a young boy, at a guess, there would be Nirvana posters on his walls, his father’s John Lee Hooker tapes in his cassette deck and some of The Kills’ or BRMC’s CDs lying around the floor of his room. Perhaps lyrics by Tom Waits or Nick Cave would be scrawled into his notebooks, and his father’s whiskey would surely be stashed under his bed. He would tell a decent joke as well as a decent lie, and would be feared and loathed by the fathers of many teenage girls. That said he’d be good fun. Continue Reading…