Forget false Idols, Perth's Eskimo Joe is Australia's real success story in 2006. The 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine' album is now officially three times platinum based on real sales to the general public.
With the common place con in the music industry of fooling the general public with premature platinum awards to fake a perception of popularity that really doesn't exist, Warner Music's Eskimo Joe has gone the distance with a slow haul of steady sales over its 26 weeks of release.Eskimo Joe is a real band playing real music. This is a band who has always been about the live performance and also knows how to write real songs. Their 2001 debut 'Girl' went Gold in Australia, while the follow-up 'A Song Is A City' introduced an evolved sound to their fans.
After building up the fan base over the course of 5 years, the third album 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine' was dropped on an established audience in June 2006.
Eskimo Joe originally formed as Freud's Pillow in Perth in Western Australia in 1997 when drummer Joel Quartermain and guitarist Stuart MacLeod grouped to enter the Australian National Campus Band Championship.
The band recently returned from New York where they performed at the CMJ Festival.
A US release for 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine' will happen in early 2007.
