Eskimo Joe have won eight ARIA Music Awards; in 2006, the band achieved four wins—from nine nominations—for work associated with Black Fingernails, Red Wine.

[2] Temperley left school at sixteen to concentrate on writing music, moving into a share house with Simon Leach, who played bass guitar in a funk band called Carpet.

[2] The other members were his brother Stuart on drums and guitarist Joel Quartermain—all three were former students at Hollywood Senior High School.

[2] While recording the EP, Temperley started jamming for a side project with MacLeod, writing several short and simple pop–punk songs.

[3] For winning the national final, they were awarded a place at the 1997 Livid Festival in Brisbane and a studio recording session in Sydney.

[2] Simon Leach eventually formed Little Birdy in 2002, while Stuart played drums for One Horse Town and later for The Bank Holidays.

Its title track, "Sweater", received significant airplay on national Australian radio station Triple J[5] and reached No.

[3][9] Tracks such as "Who Sold Her Out" and "Planet Earth" received airplay on Triple J,[5] with the former reaching the top 100 on the ARIA Singles Chart and the latter listed at No.

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2001, the band's single, "Wake Up", with a promotional clip by Ben Saunders, won the 'Best Video' category.

[10][15] MacLeod arranged for the band to produce their third album, Black Fingernails, Red Wine, themselves, which "shifted the emphasis from the songs and their performance to an over-all sound".

[9] The fourth single, "Breaking Up", in which the music video starred actress Teresa Palmer, attained the top 100.

[3] According to Nimmervoll, "The album was put together in the same spirit, instead of the extremelely [sic] focused record they had wanted with Black Fingernails, Red Wine with Inshalla Eskimo Joe let the songs and the music take them wherever they led".

The first single from the album "Love Is a Drug" was first performed at 2011 Southbound Music Festival in Busselton and was released on iTunes on 24 June.

To record the band's sixth album, a fundraising campaign was launched in November 2012 through the Pozible website (a service also used by fellow Australian musician Clare Bowditch for her Big Hearted Business initiative[25])—Pozible is self described as "a crowdfunding platform and community-building tool for creative projects and ideas.

[31] Temperley revealed in a pre-album-release interview that the band felt "dusty" following the decreased popularity of Ghosts of the Past.

Temperley also provided insight into the album's musical influences, citing Leonard Cohen and stating, "I always refer back to the sounds I have always loved and for me Beck and LCD Soundsystem are where it's at."

[32] The release of Wastelands on 20 September 2013 was accompanied by a livestreamed session (using the Soundrop app, part of the Spotify music website) consisting of a live chat and a performance of the new album.

[36] At the end of that month, they had a secret gig in Perth under a pseudonym, The Andy Callison Project, as a warm-up to their US tour.

[37] Joining Eskimo Joe's line-up for live shows were Lee Jones on keyboards and Shaun Sibbes on drums.

[37] In January 2008, Eskimo Joe performed in New York, Houston and Los Angeles as part of the annual G'day USA – Australia Week.

[citation needed] In March 2009, Eskimo Joe performed at the Sound Relief concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

[39] Appearing with Eskimo Joe at the Sydney concert were, Coldplay, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Jet, Josh Pyke, Little Birdy, The Presets, Wolfmother, You Am I and additional artists.

On 22 August 2012, the band was announced as the opening act for the launch of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival in Australia.

[41] The 'Winter Warmer' tour was announced in late May 2013 and the band explained that they would be playing acoustically at intimate and unusual venues across Australia.

Temperley explained, "I love it how the whole album works on just an acoustic guitar, and there are so many stories that now, from a safe distance, I’m ready to tell", in regard to the tour that will occur from July to September 2014.

[43] In April 2010, Eskimo Joe were announced as the 'number-one ticket-holder' for the Fremantle Football Club, replacing golfer Nick O'Hern.

[45] A National Office for Live Music was launched by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in July 2013; and, as of August 2013, Temperley is the state ambassador for Western Australia.