Gurrumul Loses Thousands In Music Gear In Skinnyfish Music Robbery

Over $60,000 worth of music gear and instruments have been stolen in a huge theft of the Skinnyfish Music office in NT over the weekend, including musician Gurrumul's gear.

As NT Times reports, thieves took Gurrumul's favourite guitar (a Martin HD-28), Tiwi Island band B2M's instruments, two Royer Ribbon microphones, as well as Skinnyfish's computers and microphones.

Skinnyfish's office manager Caron Farrell found the office ransacked upon entering the building on Sunday morning.

"I noticed some DVDs out the front door on Sunday when I came to do a bit of work and when I opened the door I saw all the computers had gone,” Farrell explained. "They’d looked in our store room and taken heaps of musical instruments.

"We’re absolutely devastated — there’s a lot of dedication that’s goes in the work here."

B2M are just days away from touring Taiwan and frontman Jeffrey 'Yellow' Simon says it's difficult getting used to new instruments so late in the game. "That keyboard that got stolen is what I’m used to playing and I’ll have to start again with its sound."

Skinnyfish director Mark Grose says their computers were full of company data. "It’s a pointless disruption form our point of view — why take four old mac computers that are of no value to anyone else but us?"