Red Jezebel
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Red Jezebel is a four piece indie
rock band from Perth
, Western Australia
.
in 1997. Eskimo Joe
won and went onto win the national final, while Red Jezebel came in fourth.
The band's name comes from an emergency evacuation codeword used by an Australian supermarket chain a number of the members worked for in the group's early years.
s Joyful Possibilities, In Transit and Intermezzo. Within this time, the band received a Kiss My WAMi
award for "Most Promising Band" in 1998, completed two national tours (with Jebediah
and Bodyjar
), had live slots on Triple J
and ABC's
Recovery
TV program, and performed at The Big Day Out.
2002 saw Red Jezebel release the EP Home Coming, which signalled a new level of song-writing maturity for the four-piece. 2002 also saw Mark Cruickshank win a WAMi award
for 'Most Popular Male Original Bass Player'. Red Jezebel released the single "Wide Open Spaces" in October 2003, which received widespread airplay nationally.
Revelations was the band's debut album and was released on Perth
-based label Sunday Ride Records via MGM distribution. It was recorded by Dave Parkin at Blackbird Studios in Western Australia
. The album features the songs "Wide Open Spaces", "Ocean Blue Eyes", "Devil’s Advocate", "You’re Making Me Nervous" and "See Through Dress", all of which received heavy rotation on Triple J
.
The album represents Red Jezebel's versatility. Revelations ranges from guitar-based rock ("Trust In Us") to psycho-country ("Dale") to acoustic based ballads ("New Revelations" and "See Through Dress" – both featuring vocals from The Hampdens
’ Susannah Legge). During this period, Dave Parkin replaced founding member Chris Hayes on second guitar duties.
In 2006 Red Jezebel spent the whole of July in Blackbird Studios putting the finishing touches to what would be their next EP
which was due for release in July 2007. This was to be the band's first major label release, having recently signed to the Mushroom Records label (through Warner Music). These inititial plans for an EP release were delayed due to various record company-related factors, at which point the band parted ways with Warner Music. Instead the band released a 13 track LP titled How I Learnt to Stop Worrying in October 2007 on their independent label, Sunday Ride Records, distributed by MGM
. The first song from the album "Kicking Deadly Sins" has received significant airplay on Triple J
, various community radio stations around Australia (Edge Radio, RTRFM
) and the video on rage
.
, Bluebottle Kiss
, Blueline Medic
, Brad
, Deadstar
, Even
, Gerling
, The Living End
, Mach Pelican
, The Mavis's
, Motor Ace
, Powderfinger
, Sidewinder
, Skulker
, Something for Kate
, The Superjesus
, Tumbleweed
, Keane and many more.
In 2005, the band completed three interstate tours and performed at the Southbound festival
in Busselton
.
2006 saw the band tour as main support for Eskimo Joe
, and for Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males during their first Western Australian headline tour. Following which the band toured nationally with Little Birdy
.
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
rock band from Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
.
Early years
The band competed in the WA final of the Australian National Campus Band Competition at North Perth's Planet NightclubPlanet Nightclub
The Planet Nightclub was an important live music venue in Perth, Western Australia. The venue's heyday was in the mid-late 1990s before closing down and reopening as "The Dollhouse" strip club.-Venue:...
in 1997. Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....
won and went onto win the national final, while Red Jezebel came in fourth.
The band's name comes from an emergency evacuation codeword used by an Australian supermarket chain a number of the members worked for in the group's early years.
Recordings
Between 1998 and 2000 the band released three critically acclaimed EPExtended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
s Joyful Possibilities, In Transit and Intermezzo. Within this time, the band received a Kiss My WAMi
West Australian Music Industry Awards
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
award for "Most Promising Band" in 1998, completed two national tours (with Jebediah
Jebediah
Jebediah is an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. The group consists of vocalist and guitarist Kevin Mitchell, guitarist Chris Daymond, bassist Vanessa Thornton, and Kevin's brother Brett Mitchell on drums...
and Bodyjar
Bodyjar
Bodyjar were an Australian punk rock/pop punk band based in Melbourne. They began performing under the name Bodyjar in 1994; their previous names included Damnation and Helium.-History:...
), had live slots on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
and ABC's
ABC Television
ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....
Recovery
Recovery (TV series)
Recovery was a music and youth interests television series broadcast by ABC TV in Australia. It was aired each Saturday morning from 9:00am to 12:00pm following Rage. It aired from 20 April 1996 to its last show on 29 April 2000...
TV program, and performed at The Big Day Out.
2002 saw Red Jezebel release the EP Home Coming, which signalled a new level of song-writing maturity for the four-piece. 2002 also saw Mark Cruickshank win a WAMi award
West Australian Music Industry Awards
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
for 'Most Popular Male Original Bass Player'. Red Jezebel released the single "Wide Open Spaces" in October 2003, which received widespread airplay nationally.
Revelations was the band's debut album and was released on Perth
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
-based label Sunday Ride Records via MGM distribution. It was recorded by Dave Parkin at Blackbird Studios in Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. The album features the songs "Wide Open Spaces", "Ocean Blue Eyes", "Devil’s Advocate", "You’re Making Me Nervous" and "See Through Dress", all of which received heavy rotation on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
.
The album represents Red Jezebel's versatility. Revelations ranges from guitar-based rock ("Trust In Us") to psycho-country ("Dale") to acoustic based ballads ("New Revelations" and "See Through Dress" – both featuring vocals from The Hampdens
The Hampdens
The Hampdens are a modern Australian band known for their literary lyrics, originally from Perth, Western Australia, but who are now based in Melbourne.-Biography:The band's name is taken from Hampden College in Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History"...
’ Susannah Legge). During this period, Dave Parkin replaced founding member Chris Hayes on second guitar duties.
In 2006 Red Jezebel spent the whole of July in Blackbird Studios putting the finishing touches to what would be their next EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
which was due for release in July 2007. This was to be the band's first major label release, having recently signed to the Mushroom Records label (through Warner Music). These inititial plans for an EP release were delayed due to various record company-related factors, at which point the band parted ways with Warner Music. Instead the band released a 13 track LP titled How I Learnt to Stop Worrying in October 2007 on their independent label, Sunday Ride Records, distributed by MGM
MGM Distribution
MGM Distribution is the largest independent distributor of Australian music and music related merchandise and was established in April 1998 by Sebastian Chase....
. The first song from the album "Kicking Deadly Sins" has received significant airplay on Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
, various community radio stations around Australia (Edge Radio, RTRFM
RTRFM
RTRFM is a not-for-profit, community radio station based in Perth, Western Australia. It is self-funded, largely through listener subscription and fund-raising events, however it does carry some "advertising material" at a maximum of 5 mins per hour. It broadcasts 24 hours a day, on 92.1 in the...
) and the video on rage
Rage (TV program)
Rage is a popular all-night Australian music video program broadcast on ABC1 on Friday nights, Saturday mornings and Saturday nights. It was first screened on the weekend of Friday, 17 April 1987. With Soul Train no longer being produced, it is the oldest music television program currently still...
.
Touring
Red Jezebel has played many shows since their formation in 1997, and have supported some of pop and rock's biggest names, including Art of FightingArt Of Fighting (band)
-History:The band formed in 1995 as a duo, with Ollie Browne playing guitar and Peggy Frew on bass, with both taking turns on vocals. The couple were also in a romantic relationship at this time, though they were to split amicably later....
, Bluebottle Kiss
Bluebottle Kiss
-History:Formed in the mid '90s, Bluebottle Kiss took their influences from the late '80s American indie scene, which included artists such as Sonic Youth and the Afghan Whigs, singer-songwriters of the '70s, such as Neil Young and Van Morrison, as well as the very creative Australian independent...
, Blueline Medic
Blueline Medic
-History:The group formed in mid 1999 after the downfall of bands Caustic Soda and Mid Youth Crisis from which guitarists Donnie Dureau and Adrian Lombardi were members...
, Brad
Brad (band)
Brad is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992. Brad's sound is influenced by the wide variety of influences brought by its members, including Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, Regan Hagar , Shawn Smith , and Jeremy Toback...
, Deadstar
Deadstar
Deadstar was an Australian band from Melbourne based around the songs of singer Caroline Kennedy and guitarist Barry Palmer ....
, Even
Even (band)
Even are an Australian indie rock three-piece fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist Ashley Naylor, with Matthew Cotter on drums and Wally Kempton on bass and backing vocals...
, Gerling
Gerling
Gerling were an alternative guitar and electronic act from Australia. They formed in 1993, and are based in Sydney.-History:The band formed in 1993 with the line-up of Darren Cross , Presser and Brad Herdson...
, The Living End
The Living End
The Living End are an Australian rock band from Melbourne, Victoria, formed in 1994. The current lineup consists of Chris Cheney , Scott Owen and Andy Strachan...
, Mach Pelican
Mach Pelican
Mach Pelican were a punk rock band formed in Perth, Australia in 1996. In 1998, they relocated to Melbourne, Australia. They announced their farewell tour in July 2007, and played their final show in Tokyo, Japan on 17 September 2007.-Biography:...
, The Mavis's
The Mavis's
The Mavis's were an Australian pop band from Ballarat, Victoria. The band was composed of Matt Thomas , his sister Becky Thomas , Nick Gill , Andrea Vendy , and Josh Alexander . They are best known for their 1998 synth-driven single "Cry", which appeared on the Triple J Hottest 100 for 1998...
, Motor Ace
Motor Ace
Motor Ace were an Australian alternative rock band. Formed in Melbourne around 1998 out of the remains of another band named Snowblind, their members were Patrick Robertson , Damian Birchall Costin , Matt Balfe , and Dave Ong .- Early history :Motor Ace's swaggering rock anthems have seen many...
, Powderfinger
Powderfinger
Powderfinger was an Australian rock band that formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their breakup the band lineup consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bassist John Collins, and drummer Jon Coghill....
, Sidewinder
Sidewinder (band)
Sidewinder was a rock band founded in 1991 by brothers Nick and Martin Craft in the Australian capital Canberra. They supported U2 on the Australian leg of their Popmart tour. In the same year. Sidewinder's second album Tangerine received much airplay on Australian radio, most notably on Triple J.-...
, Skulker
Skulker
Skulker was an ARIA Award-nominated rock band from Sydney, Australia that originally formed in 1994. After two albums, the group parted ways in 2005-History:...
, Something for Kate
Something for Kate
Something for Kate are a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman and bassist Stephanie Ashworth...
, The Superjesus
The Superjesus
The Superjesus were an ARIA award–winning rock band from Adelaide, Australia. They are best known for their singles "Shut My Eyes", "Down Again" and "Gravity".-History:...
, Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed (band)
Tumbleweed are a Wollongong-based rock group in Australia, popular during the grunge years of the 1990s. As an opening band for Nirvana on their 1992 tour of Australia, Tumbleweed reached out into the mainstream with their crunchy-psychedelica...
, Keane and many more.
In 2005, the band completed three interstate tours and performed at the Southbound festival
Southbound (festival)
Southbound is an arts, camping and music festival. A variety of Australian and international artists perform at this event. The festival occurs annually, early January, at the Sir Stewart Bovell Park in Busselton, Western Australia.-History:...
in Busselton
Busselton, Western Australia
-Growth and development:According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics the Shire had a permanent resident population of 25,950 in 2004 with the town of Busselton accounting for 67% or 17,400 of the total. The Shire's permanent population is expected to continue to increase significantly to...
.
2006 saw the band tour as main support for Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe
Eskimo Joe is an Australian alternative rock band formed by Stuart MacLeod on guitars, Joel Quartermain on drums and guitar and Kavyen Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1997....
, and for Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males during their first Western Australian headline tour. Following which the band toured nationally with Little Birdy
Little Birdy
Little Birdy are an Australian indie rock band formed in Perth, Western Australia in 2002 by singer and guitarist Katy Steele, drummer Matt Chequer, guitarist and keyboardist Simon Leach, and bass guitarist Scott O'Donoghue...
.
Current members
- Paul Wood - vocals, guitar
- Dave Parkin - guitar
- Mark Cruickshank - bass guitar
- Alex Hyman - drums
Albums
- RevelationsRevelations (Red Jezebel album)Revelations is the 2004 debut album from Western Australian rock music group Red Jezebel.-Track listing:#"You're Making Me Nervous" – 4:42#"Devil's Advocate" – 3:37#"New Revelations" – 4:35#"Dale" – 1:40#"Heart In The Sun" – 4:14...
(7 June 2004) - How I Learnt to Stop Worrying (13 October 2007)
EPs
- Joyful Possibilities (March 1998)
- In Transit (March 1999)
- Intermezzo (March 2000)
- Home Coming (May 2002)
Singles
- "Wide Open Spaces" (3 November 2003) Sunday Ride Records
- "Kicking Deadly Sins" (2007) - radio single
Compilations
- Eat More Perth Homegrown (1999) - "Itch"
- Kiss My WAMiWest Australian Music Industry AwardsThe Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
1999 (1999) - "Get Fresh" - Kiss My WAMiWest Australian Music Industry AwardsThe Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
2000 (2000) - "Driver - Fuse Festival 2004 (2004) - "Devil's Advocate"
- Home & Hosed - Freshly Plucked (2004) - "Devil's Advocate"
- Coastal Chill 05 (2005) - "Ocean Blue Eyes"
- Kiss My WAMiWest Australian Music Industry AwardsThe Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
2005 (2005) - "The World Was On A Plate"
Trivia
- Dave Parkin is also the record producer at Blackbird Studios in Perth, Western AustraliaPerth, Western AustraliaPerth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
and has worked with the likes of SnowmanSnowman (band)Snowman were a band originally from Perth, Western Australia. They relocated to London in 2008, and disbanded in 2011.-History:Snowman began playing together in various incarnations and under different names during their high school years. Joseph McKee and Andy Citawarman met when they were...
, JebediahJebediahJebediah is an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. The group consists of vocalist and guitarist Kevin Mitchell, guitarist Chris Daymond, bassist Vanessa Thornton, and Kevin's brother Brett Mitchell on drums...
and The Panda BandThe Panda BandThe Panda Band are an indie pop band originating from Perth, Western Australia. They have a reputation for combining numerous musical genres. They have toured nationally as support acts for bands such as The Sleepy Jackson, Little Birdy, The Grates and Evermore.-Biography:The band originally...
, as well as Red Jezebel. - Dave Parkin has won WAMi awardWest Australian Music Industry AwardsThe Western Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc...
s in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,2009,2010 and 2011 for 'Best Record Producer/Engineer', and in 2007 for 'Best Sound Engineer'.