Eskimo Joe

The rock outfit Eskimo Joe came together in Fremantle during 1997. Kavyen Temperly, handling vocals and bass, joined forces with drummer Joel Quartermain—previously bandmates in Freud's Pillow—to add guitarist Stuart MacLeod for the Australian National Campus Band Competition. Their victory there secured a performance berth at the yearly Livid Festival along with studio time. That recording session produced the band's 1998 debut EP Sweater, which received notable airplay on Triple J thanks to its title track. The following year brought a second EP issued under the group's name, featuring the charting singles "Ruby Wednesday" and "Turn Up Your Stereo." After signing with Modular Records, an EMI imprint, Eskimo Joe enlisted producer Ed Buller for their first proper album, Girl. The release reached the Australian Top 40 and yielded the singles "Planet Earth" and "Who Sold Her Out." Their 2004 follow-up A Song Is a City elevated the trio to national prominence. Powered by the Top 40 tracks "From the Sea," "Smoke," and "Older Than You," the album peaked at number two. The band's third LP, Black Fingernails, Red Wine, entered the charts at number one in May 2006. Three years later, in 2009, they issued a fourth album titled Inshalla.