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Bio:
New wave/powerpop quintet from Galway. Drummer Mike Arrigan had been in an earlier
band with Rob Coen of Scum Of The Earth, whose
last gig in 1980 was The Fuze's first ever live performance.
The Fuze won the Tramore Band Competition in 1980. The prize was £1000 cash and a single to be released on Mulligan Records in conjunction with the organisers of the competition who called themselves Tramore. This is the reason for the Tramore logo on the label of the band's debut single on Mulligan "Stone Age Man". An LP featuring all finalists of the competition was also considered but Mulligan and Tramore fell out almost immediately and these plans were scrapped.
Mulligan were so impressed with The Fuze they signed them to a three single deal
and the band began recording suitable tracks for future singles at Windmill Lane.
Mulligan Records' finances became overextended promoting the Boomtown Rats in
the UK and they were unable to meet their commitments. They were subsequently
taken over, leaving The Fuze and bands like them with unpaid bills. This is how
the band came to pay for it's own debut single even though it was supposedly
released on Mulligan. They formed their own One Up label to promote it and
also designed a picture sleeve which bore the One Up logo. One Up also paid the
bands outstanding bills, including the recording costs of the second single,
which eventually came out on Release Records and charted in Ireland in July 1981.
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