Eskimo Joe
Lively in Geelong
Event Description
While successfully straddling the line between commercial success and managing to keep their Alternative
Music roots secure, over their career, Eskimo Joe have racked up a long list of impressive accomplishments.
With 6 studio albums under their belts and sales in excess of 750,000, in Australia alone, the band has seen 3 of
those albums debut at number 1 on the ARIA charts, with juggernaut ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ shining for a
monster 62 weeks in the ARIA Chart Top 50 and “Foreign Land”, from their fourth album ‘Inshalla', bringing
home 2 APRA Awards, for Most Played Rock Song on Australian radio and Best Rock Song of 2010.
Eskimo Joe have enjoyed 35 ARIA nominations in their career thus far – a number only surpassed by Silverchair,
Powderfinger, Kylie Minogue and John Farnham. They have brought home 3 International Song-writing Awards,
11 WAMi Awards and 8 ARIAs and 11 of their compositions have featured in Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown,
with ‘BlackFingernails,RedWine’landing2ndplace. Thestagehowever,iswhereEskimoJoeshineandthebandhave
performed at many significant events including: Sound Relief, Live Earth, Make Poverty History, the ARIA
Awards, the APRA Awards, Big Day Out, Homebake, Laneway Festival, Falls Festival, Southbound, Splendour In
The Grass, Triple J’s One Night Stand, The Australian Open, AFL and Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA, on
the same stage as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Along with a significant number of tours within Australia, the band have had their music released to great acclaim from fans and critics alike, in the United States, Canada, Europe and Korea with large festivals and sold out tours to boot... They were also the number one ticket holders
for the Fremantle Football Club for two years running!
As their storied career continues to evolve, Eskimo Joe have certainly come a long way from their humble
beginnings as much-loved indie rock kids in Fremantle, WA.