Genres Rock Genre Rock music | Years active 1994–2005 Active until 2005 Origin Sydney, Australia (1994) | |
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Past members Greer SkinnerAnnette HaradaAngela BlackshawNaomi "Batti" BattahGregory Boulting Similar Nitocris, Motor Ace, The Superjesus, Area‑7, Groove Terminator Profiles | ||
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Skulker was an ARIA Award-nominated rock band from Sydney, Australia that originally formed in 1994. After two albums, the group parted ways in 2005
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History
The group's original members met at Cheltenham Girls High School in northern Sydney in 1994 and decided to form a band.
Ever since, they've been pitched as Australia's premier all-girl band.
The line-up at the time was Greer Skinner on lead vocals and guitar, Annette Harada on bass guitar, Naomi "Batti" Battah on guitar and occasional lead vocals and drummer Angela Blackshaw.
After an initial period establishing itself on the Sydney live circuit the band came to the attention of independent label Chatterbox Records and in 2000 Skulker released the album Too Fat for Tahiti. The title was apparently inspired by the band being rejected for a gig as a house band at a resort in Tahiti because they were "too fat".
Too Fat for Tahiti spawned the tracks "Naughty" and "Hëj" that received considerable support from the national youth radio station Triple J and both were voted into the networks annual listeners' poll, The Hottest 100, at number 50 and 80 respectively. The album was subsequently nominated for Best Independent Album at the ARIA Awards and Skulker was nominated for Best New Live Act at the Australian Music Awards.
Skulker then toured Australia exhaustively before recording a new album The Double Life that was released in early 2003. A free download-only single "Rock Nugget" was released. It was downloaded over 20,000 times and received high rotation on Triple J. The girls also played alongside one of their major music influences Veruca Salt in The Metro Theatre, Sydney in July that year.
The album received feature album status on the network. The band went on to release the singles "Coming Home" and "In Your Arms" and played the Big Day Out tour in 2004. Early 2004 also found the band opening for Pink in Sydney and Newcastle and toured nationally supporting The Superjesus.
At this point Batti decided to depart the band and moved to Canada to pursue other interests. Following the replacement of Batti with new guitarist Gregory Boulting, Skulker toured the east coast of Australia and recorded extensive demos of new material that have never been released. The band members have since decided to go their own ways and pursue further interests.
Albums
EPs
Singles
Songs
Strawberry DeluxeToo Fat for Tahiti · 2000
Newport NightmareToo Fat for Tahiti · 2000
Forgotten Years2001