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skulker
Noun
1 someone shirking their duty by feigning illness
or incapacity [syn: malingerer, shammer]
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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
History
The group's original members met at Cheltenham
Girls High School,
North Sydney in 1994 and decided to form a 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 and received high
rotation on Triple J. The album received feature album status on
the network, however sales of The Double Life were disappointing
compared to those of the debut. 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.
At this point Batti decided to depart the band
and moved to Canada to pursue
other interests. She now lives in London,
Ontario. 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. Annette Harada has relocated to
London,
England. Angela Blackshaw is now in the Sydney band Boston
Shaker and Greer Skinner is working in journalism as editorial
co-ordinator for Practical Parenting magazine.
Discography
Albums
- Too Fat For Tahiti (2000)
- The Double Life (2003)
EPs
- Morgan To The Moon (1998)
Singles
- Bittersweet (1998)
- Hëj (2000)
- Naughty (2000)
- Newport Nightmare / Strawberry Deluxe (2001)
- Rock Nugget (2001)
- Coming Home (2003)
- In Your Arms (2003)