Red Jezebel
| Red Jezebel | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Genres | Alternative rock |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Walking Horse Music (2015-present) Sunday Ride Records (2007-2015) Mushroom Records(2006-2007) Sunday Ride Records (2005) Halflight (1998-1999) Independent (2000-2004) |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | Paul Wood Dave Parkin Mark Cruickshank Fraser Cringle |
| Past members | Chris Hayes Alex Hyman |
Red Jezebel is a four-piece indie rock band from Perth, Western Australia.
The band competed in the Western Australia final of the Australian National Campus Band Competition at the Planet Nightclub in North Perth in 1997. Eskimo Joe won and went on to win the national final, while Red Jezebel came fourth.
The band's name comes from an emergency evacuation codeword used by an Australian supermarket chain that a number of the members worked for in the group's early years.
Between 1998 and 2000, the band released three critically acclaimed EPs: 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), made live appearances on Triple J and ABC's Recovery TV program, and performed at The Big Day Out.
In 2002, Red Jezebel released the EP Home Coming, which signalled a new level of song-writing maturity. Also in 2002, Mark Cruickshank won 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 in Australia.
Revelations was the band's first album and was released on the Perth-based label Sunday Ride Records with an MGM distribution. It was recorded by Dave Parkin at Blackbird Studios in Western Australia. The album includes 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 demonstrates 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 with vocals from Susannah Legge of The Hampdens). During this period, Dave Parkin replaced the founding member Chris Hayes on second guitar.
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