KIM SALMON’S SMOKED SALMON ANNOUNCE NATIONAL TOUR AHEAD OF THE MAY 29 RELEASE OF THEIR SECOND ALBUM TOTALLY SICK!!
Smoked Salmon, featuring Scientists, Surrealists and Beasts of Bourbon living legend Kim Salmon, have today announced a huge 17-date tour to follow the Friday May 29 2026 release date of their new album Totally Sick!!
The tour takes in city and regional areas in WA, VIC, SA, NSW, ACT, TAS and QLD, and kicks off July 24 in Fremantle. Complete dates are listed below.
The album, which will be released on limited edition totally sick spewy green 12″ vinyl (100 only), black 12″ vinyl and digitally, is available to pre-order now, and the single can either be purchased individually or as an immediate download track for fans who pre-order the album from kimsalmon.bandcamp.com/album/totally-sick.
Totally Sick!! has been preceded by two singles to date, the latest being “Fully Sick and Tired” and the first “Freudian Slippers”. (Can you spot a theme developing?)
The band describes the new album Totally Sick!! thusly:
“Songs for when you’re not feeling so good? Songs for when you need to take a sickie? Feeling fully sick?! Need a bit of a lie down ?! Need something to get you on the road to recovery?! Kim Salmon’s had the prescriptions for you throughout the nineties, the naughties and NOW! Fix Me Up, There’s A Virus Going Round, cos Everybody’s Out Of Town so get into your Freudian Slippers while Smoked Salmon bring you their catchiest strains!
“Get Totally Sick Now!!”
SMOKED SALMON TOTALLY SICK!! TOUR 2026
Fri July 24 – Mojo’s, Fremantle – Tix
Sat July 25 – Prince of Wales, Bunbury – Tix
Fri July 31 – Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine – Tix
Sat Aug 1 – Shotkickers, Thornbury – Tix
Sun Aug 2 – Wheatsheaf, Adelaide – Tix
Thu Aug 6 – La La La’s, Wollongong – Tix
Fri Aug 7 – Petersham Bowling Club, Petersham – Tix
Sat Aug 8 – Link & Pin, Woy Woy – Tix
Sun Aug 9 – The Oak Tighes Hill, Newcastle – free show
Fri Aug 14 – Tanswells, Beechworth – free show
Sat Aug 15 – Smiths Alternative, Canberra – Tix
Fri Aug 21 – Republic Bar, Hobart – Tix
Sat Aug 22 – Royal Oak, Launceston – Tix
Fri Aug 28 – Junk Bar, Brisbane – Tix
Sat Aug 29 – Blah Bar, Lismore – Tix
Sun Aug 30 – Cabarita Beach Club, Cabarita – free show
Fri Sep 4 – Young St Tavern, Frankson – tix
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
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.
His latest band, 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!
They have toured Europe and Japan – combining classic moments from across his career with an album of brand-new original songs in 2025 and the follow up Totally Sick!! coming May 29 2026.
