Eskimo Joe are a Double Platinum, ARIA award winning artist.

Their debut album ‘Girl’ achieved gold sales and their celebrated “A Song Is A City” album achieved Double Platinum success.

Black Fingernails, Red Wine” is their third studio album and was recorded at The Grove Studios on the Central Coast NSW and was self produced buy the band.

It is mixed by Tim Palmer who is responsible for albums by U2, Pearly Jam, Live, Ozzy Ozbourne, Robert Plant, Roachford, Concrete Blonds & Duran Duran.

Outside the ARIA awards for Best Group, Best Engineer & Best Producer, Eskimo Joe have owned the WAMi Awards for the past two years with 8 individual awards.

“When we’re writing, I like to play solo shows so I can play the songs through and just get the performance factor coming up. I just like to give the songs a bit of life and let them breathe a bit, as opposed to just being something that exists on the demo. I played at a bar in Perth called the Rosemont Hotel; End of Fashion were playing – it was their gig. And I was trying to get myself into the mentality of this stadium-rock thing, so I’d started dressing in the way I thought the character would evolve. I was painting my fingernails black and I dyed my hair dark, and I was wearing eyeliner and skinny-leg jeans. Anyway, after the show, I was drinking red wine,” Kav Temperley explains. “And I think some of my best moments come to me when I’m urinating in public toilets, because I’m stuck there and I can’t run off and do anything or have a conversation, so you’re stuck in this position. So I was there, thinking, ‘Black fingernails, red wine… I want to make you all mine!’ and that’s how this song evolved. I went home the next day and started writing it. And, again, because I was trying to do this whole stadium thing, I thought it’d be one of those songs that these guys listen to and go, ‘Oh, that’s kind of cool, but you can save it for your side project.’ But I played it to them and Joel straight away was like, ‘Awesome!’ and started working on it. So this became the next benchmark song.”