The group's original members met at
Cheltenham Girls High School in northern Sydney in 1994 and decided to form a band. The original line-up consisted of 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 singles "Hëj" and "Naughty" which received considerable support from the national youth radio station
Triple J and both were voted into the network's annual listeners' poll, the
Triple J Hottest 100, 2000, A free download-only single "Rock Nugget" was released. It was downloaded over 20,000 times and received high rotation on Triple J. The band also played alongside one of their major music influences,
Veruca Salt, in Sydney's
The Metro Theatre in July that year. The band released 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 touring 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 have since decided to go their own ways and pursue further interests. ==Discography==