....We have recorded together under various names.....
From Memorial Crossing (2000) as PINKIE MACLURE,
This Day and Age (2003) as LUMEN,
Cat's Cradle (2005) as PINKIE MACLURE AND JOHN WILLS,
Becoming Pumajaw (2007) as PUMAJAW,
Curiosity Box(2008) as PUMAJAW,
Retrospective compilation album containing tracks selected from all the above coming out in May 2009.
New mini-album being recorded and due out later this year - (as PUMAJAW!)
PRESS REVIEWS
Alive.co.uk Here is a singer who can do the business. Pinkie Maclure has a voice that sounds like it"s coming straight from the bottom of a large and complicated soul. Pinkie has found an ideal musical collaborator in John Wills, formerly of psychedelic rockers Loop and avant-garde indie band the Hair And Skin Trading Company, which counts as probably my favourite band name. A haunting, beautiful and sensual record that was born to be played after dark with the lights off.
THE LIST
Pinkie's staggering voice - soaring above John's weave of eerie noises.
MOJO* * * *
As a vocalist Maclure demands greater recognition. What makes the duo's music outstanding is that while it's tender and lyrical, there's also an earthiness, a saltiness to it. Mike Barnes
THE SCOTSMAN****This bill has set the bar for mesmerising performance at
this year's Celtic Connections. The bewitching Pumajaw are one of the Scottish music scene's most exotic animals,
Instrumentalist John Wills built a heady soundtrack by looping effects-laden
guitar and beats, but all eyes were on the engrossing Pinkie
Maclure, who dresses like a glamorous flapper girl and sings like a siren.
Fiona Shepherd
THE HERALD****
Friday night's concert at the Classic Grand 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
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THE WIRE
Timeless, extraordinary......... the product of a potent musical chemistry. Mike Barnes,
UNCUT ****
Pinkie Maclure & John Wills have made five albums since they met in the late 1990s after Wills left his first band, hypnotic noiseniks, Loop. Their second album under the name Pumajaw links Loop's ethereal guitar wash of sound with trance-like folk, held together by Pinkie's disarmingly seductive voice. Mick Houghton
Finally back in Spain! It was really a great pleasure to meet you guys and your music! Those days in Moscow had been quite intense, I'm so glad we got the chance to go. Hope we keep in touch, meet anywhere in Europe or in case we come to Scotland we will let you know for sure, it'd be a dream of mine to go there ... Saludos desde Mallorca!
I meant "mature" as rich voice. There is a tendency in independent music to sing softly and being incapable of anything else. It's great to hear a better voice.
Dear Pinkie, I hope all's well, many thanks for your generous appraisal of 'Fame and the Fisherman' (I'm glad you enjoyed it), I assume your gig in the spectred tolbooth with Ali went well, he's one hell of a lyrical firecracker. Love your new tracks!
love and best wishes, From The Lonely Piper with leaping salmon x
