With ARIA Award nominations for best group, best rock album and best single, Faker had a huge year in 2008. Recently reaching gold status their second album 'Be The Twilight' and single 'This Heart Attack' have truly emblazoned themselves on the nation's psyche. Top 10 single 'This Heart Attack' stayed in the charts for a whopping 40 weeks, reached 5 on the radio airplay chart, and was voted number 5 on Triple J's Hottest 100.

Coming a long way from humble beginnings in the sometimes murky waters of the Sydney indie rock scene in the late 90s, they released two EPs in 2001,"Sound Out Loud' and 'Kids On Overload' and several thousand years later released their first album, 2005's 'Addicted Romantic', featuring the single 'Hurricane'. Thereafter they went off round the country playing festivals like the Big Day Out and the Falls Festival in addition to countless shows of their own, winning people's hearts with their unique combination of reckless energy, machine-like musical precision and fantastic dress sense.