SKULKER

Skulker's original members met at Cheltenham Girls High School in northern 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. The band record its first EP 'Morgan To The Moon' in 1998. After an initial period establishing itself on the Sydney live circuit the band came to the attention of independent label Chatterbox Records and in 1998 released the single ''Bittersweet''. 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 network's annual listeners' poll, The Hottest 100, at #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, 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 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 decided to go their own ways and pursue further interests.

Members

Greer Skinner (guitar, vocals), Batti [Naomi Battah] (guitar), Annette Harada (bass),
Angela Blackshaw (drums), Gregory Boulting (guitar)

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulker