Skulker
| Skulker | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sydney, Australia |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 1994–2005 |
| Labels | Chatterbox Records |
| Past members | Greer Skinner Annette Harada Angela Blackshaw Naomi "Batti" Battah Gregory Boulting |
Skulker was an ARIA Award-nominatedrock band from Sydney, Australia that originally formed in 1994. After two albums, the group parted ways in 2005
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.
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