Fallon Bowman
Fallon Bowman (born
November 16,
1983 in
Cape Town,
South Africa) is a
musician from
Ontario,
Canada, best known for her involvement with
Kittie,
Pigface and her own project,
Amphibious Assault.
At 15 years old, Bowman would help form
Kittie with classmate
Mercedes Lander and Lander's sister,
Morgan. She played
guitar and did
background vocals on Kittie album
Spit and the
Paperdoll EP. She parted from Kittie in 2001.
While on a plane from
Ontario to
New Jersey, a 17-year-old Bowman was skimming through a
Tom Clancy novel when she came upon the term
amphibious assault. Bowman thought this would be a great name for an
industrial band.
Bowman would go on to record several tracks with
Pigface for the band's 2003 album,
Easy Listening. Her enjoyment of the recording experience, led her to begin writing music again. She purchased a
sequencer and began exploring the
industrial band genre that she admired but had never actively pursued. In the months that followed, Bowman's basement filled with
drum machines and
synthesizers. From her basement, she crafted the songs that would make up
Amphibious Assault's debut album,
District Six, released on the Social Unrest label. Bowman's former
Kittie bandmate, bassist
Talena Atfield, has also contributed to Amphibious Assault as has guitarist Pete Henderson.
Amphibious Assault's second album has been completed and was originally scheduled for a June, and then August, 2005 release but has been delayed, largely due to Bowman's school schedule. Her scheduled live shows with
Pigface, for their 2005 tour, were also affected by the schedule. She occasionally updates her fans through her
blog on the Amphibious Assault website but it appears there will be some time before the album is actually released. In February of 2006, Bowman announced that she was applying for studies abroad which will cause Amphibious Assault to remain inactive.
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Spit (with
Kittie) (1999)
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Paperdoll EP (with
Kittie) (2000)
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Easy Listening... (with
Pigface) (2003)
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District Six (with
Amphibious Assault) (2003)
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Official Amphibious Assault website
