Eskimo Joe

Youthful naivety can produce flashes of rock & roll excitement, but genuine experience and the passage of time can turn a good band into a truly great one. Now, eight years on from when the young Fremantle trio leapt onto the national stage, Eskimo Joe are taking a big, bold step towards Australian music greatness with their third album, Black Fingernails, Red Wine.

I always think of things in a concept-record kind of way. So I wanted to make a record as if we were a stadium rock band, explains songwriter and bassist Kav Temperley. If we were like INXS, what kind of record would I want to write?

Black Fingernails, Red Wine is a brazen step forward for a band borne of...

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