The Jezabels

The Jezabels
The Jezabels (left to right): Hayley Mary, Nik Kaloper, Sam Lockwood. Heather Shannon is out of shot. Falls Festival, January 2012 in Marion Bay
Background information
Origin	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Genres	Indie rock, alternative rock
Years active	2007 (2007)–present
Labels	PIAS, MGM Distribution, Dine Alone, Waterfront, Mom + Pop
Website	thejezabels.com
Members	Nik(olas) Kaloper Sam(uel) Lockwood Hayley Mary Heather Shannon

The Jezabels are an Australian indie rock band formed in Sydney in 2007. They consist of Nik Kaloper on drums and percussion, Samuel Lockwood on lead guitar, Hayley Mary (also known as Hayley Frances McGlone) on lead vocals and Heather Shannon on piano and keyboard. They have described their genre as "intensindie" but later said that this was just a joke that they put up on a social networking site, though people took them seriously.

From 2009 to 2010 the group issued a trilogy of extended play (EP) recordings, The Man Is Dead, She's So Hard and Dark Storm—all produced and engineered by Lachlan Mitchell. Two of their releases have reached the ARIA Singles Chart Top 40: the Dark Storm EP (October 2010) and their single "Endless Summer" (August 2011).

They released their debut studio album, Prisoner on 16 September 2011. It peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart and won Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 2012. Their second album The Brink was released on 31 January 2014. Synthia, their third album, came out on 12 February 2016.

The Jezabels formed in 2007 after the four members met as students at the University of Sydney. Their music was described by national youth radio station, Triple J, as a blend of alternative rock, indie rock, and disco pop. The Jezabels' Facebook page describes their genre as "intensindie". Hayley Mary (born Hayley Frances McGlone) and Heather Shannon both went to Byron Bay High School and had performed together as a folk duo in Byron Bay. Samuel Lockwood also grew up in Byron Bay. The band's name is based on the biblical character, Jezebel, who Mary perceived as being "misunderstood or misrepresented" and described her as "an example of how women are really wrongly presented". Lockwood recognised Mary and Shannon when he saw them at university and invited them to join a band for a competition. The group are Nik Kaloper on drums and percussion, Sam Lockwood on lead guitar, Hayley Mary on lead vocals and Heather Shannon on piano and keyboard. Mary recalled: "It was a combination of four individual desires to play music and taking whatever opportunities we could find — which happened to be each other ... From there the process has pretty much been one of reconciling musical differences. But we’re getting closer".