We're a duo called Pumajaw. This is a new show for the Edinburgh Fringe and it's the most ambitious thing we've ever attempted. We want to cock a snook at the mediocrity of the mainstream music industry by creating something truly exceptional at the Fringe. We hope it will eventually tour across Britain and the world.  By rescuing some great forgotten songs from film noir and cult movies and blending them seamlessly with our own field recordings and compositions,  we'll create an extraordinary album and onstage world:  a world both nostalgic and futuristic, using cutting-edge technology, traditional instruments (concertina, guitar, keyboards, autoharp) and our own weird and wonderful visuals.  It's going to be amazing and unique and you can back us for as little as £1.

We are entirely self-funded - we write, arrange, perform, record, mix and manufacture all our music ourselves. We make our own videos, design our own artwork and organise all our own gigs. We have no label or management behind us. We've worked like this for over twelve years and sometimes it's hard to keep going, but the enthusiasm of our fans and our belief that music must not be reduced to advertising jingles,  remind us not to give up.

The fringe venue alone is going to cost £3000 and we also have to pay for publicity,  travel, rehearsals, living costs and a sound and lighting technician.  We are entirely self-funded and possibly obsessed. Please help us make the show happen!

Reviews

"Pumajaw raised the bar for the rest of the festival. Sometimes growling, other times hauntingly angelic, Maclure's voice was always utterly engaging. Wills is a highly accomplished player and his use of loops and samples created a wall of sound that a full-blown band might struggle to craft. Maclure is quite an enigma and Pumajaw's effect was heightened by the theatricality of her performance, pacing the mini-proscenium and, witch-like, seducing her audience into a weird and even scary world. And the way she handles the concertina would make the knees of grown men tremble."

David Prater THE SCOTSMAN****

"There are eight wonderful, original songs here together with the most atmospheric instrumental arrangements and a voice that is nothing less than thrillingly world class. This is adventurous music from one of the country’s deeply hidden artistic treasures.’"

4.5/5 Sharon O’Connell, UNCUT****

…..You wonder if the neighbours know about them in the local shop. About Maclure fleeing Banff for France on the back of a teenage Jacques Brel fascination; about her extraordinary voice– parts Juliette Greco and Ella Fitzgerald – a voice that would, in a better world, deliver the greatest Bond theme ever.

You wonder if they realise that Wills  is possessed of an uncanny knack for bewitching atmospheres and ritualistic beats.  Or that the duo’s alliance has won them fans from Radio 3's Verity Sharp to Kevin Le Gendre, editor of Jazzwise, who decreed Pumajaw “disarmingly beautiful”).

Nicola Meighan, THE SUNDAY HERALD