Skulker: Home On The Stage.

Skulker play the Troccadero, Surfers Paradise on Friday and The Zoo on Saturday.

Skulker are back, baby. The Sydney rockers who brought you the mighty Too Fat For Tahiti album have just released their new single Coming Home, showing a more polished side of the band’s trademark overdriven pop sensibilities. To a degree it’s also a commentary on the band’s long awaited return to the stage.

“It’s been three years now since the album came out, so it’s been a while,” singer and guitarist Greer jokes. “It’s good to be back and doing it all.”

Obviously it’s not been three years since the band have hit the road. Until recently, they were a regular sight on the Aussie rock circuit, but had taken an extended break to put together Coming Home, and the remainder of their about to be released album The Double Life.

“We had a bit of a problem because we’d never really written an album before. Too Fat came from when we were at High School, and this album was a bit of a shock, because after touring for two years we went, ‘oh God, we’ve got to have an album out’. It took lots of work to get the songs to start to come, and there was tons of stress. Everything really came together of the studio.”

How indicative is Coming Home of what the rest of the album will sound like?

“I’d say it’s fairly indicative. There’s a few surprises, but when we first heard it finally recorded we were like ‘yeah, cool’. I have got other favourite songs, so there’s more too it.”

Do you feel the extra maturity of three years on the road in the way the band works together now, the dynamics between each other?

“Yeah, definitely. We’ve been playing since 1997 in pubs, and I think we’ve always been struggling to be at this level or that level. Now I feel like we’re reaching a point where… we all work really well together, and things are getting easier now. We know where we’re at and what we’re on about and how to go about it.”

Was the whole Too Fat experience really about learning for you?

“We’d done recordings before that album, but Too Fat took so long we really learned about how frustrating the waiting game can be in rock and roll. Now we know things won’t happen overnight, but we had a lot of fun. There’s nothing quite like the buzz of having people know your songs.”