The Jezabels

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The Jezabels
The Jezabels at the Falls Festival 2012
The Jezabels at the Falls Festival 2012
General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock
founding 2007
Website thejezabels.com
Current occupation
singing
 Hayley Mary (actually: Hayley Frances McGlone)
guitar
 Sam (uel) Henry Lockwood
Keyboard, piano
 Heather Gail Shannon
Drums, percussion
 Nik (olas) Stephan Kaloper
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Prisoner
  AU 2 October 02, 2011 (11 weeks)
  DE 67 March 16, 2012 (1 week)
  CH 87 03/18/2012 (1 week)
The Brink
  AU 2 02/10/2014 (5 weeks)
  DE 79 02/28/2014 (1 week)
Synthia
  AU 4th 02/22/2016 (3 weeks)
Singles
Dark Storm
  AU 40 10/17/2010 (1 week)
Endless summer
  AU 39 08/28/2011 (2 weeks)

The Jezabels are a four-piece Australian alternative rock band from Sydney .

Band name

The name of the band refers to the Old Testament female figure of the Jezebel (Eng. Jezebel ), who generally enjoys a bad reputation as a prostitute , which, according to front woman Hayley Mary, was a deliberate misinterpretation: Jezebel was at the transition from a polytheistic to a patriarchal - monotheistic one Society, and because it was unwilling to give up its old gods, according to Mary, it was defamed by the new rulers.

Band history

Hayley Mary (born April 29, 1987) and keyboardist Heather Shannon (born July 31, 1986) come from Byron Bay and went to Byron Bay High School , as did the later band member Sam Lockwood, who lived in Bangalow . There they formed a folk duo , with Mary singing and Shannon playing the violin.

Shannon played piano and violin with the Sydney Youth Orchestra in 2006 and 2007 and was a member of several other orchestras in Sydney, including the electro-acoustic Splinter Orchestra . In 2009 she completed a classical piano training (under Daniel Herscovitch, among others ) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Bachelor of Music Performance. In the same year, together with a fellow student, the clarinetist Emma Hunt , she founded the Trois chamber orchestra trio , which was supplemented by changing musicians, including the flautist Emma Lefroy .

At the University of Sydney , Mary and Shannon met Sam Lockwood, who had a country and bluegrass background as guitarists . Drummer Nik Kaloper joined the team most recently. He came from thrash metal punk, was previously a member of Schrödinger's Cat and had played in a Californian marching band as a teenager . They merged in 2007 and took part in a band contest at their university, in which they finished second.

Her first releases were EPs, including Dark Storm , which won two awards ("Best Independent Artist" and "Best Independent Single / EP") at the Independent Music Awards. An unofficial music video with mountain biker Danny MacAskill , in which A Little Piece played in the background to his tricks , got them additional attention in the network community.

In their early band years (before 2009) they supported Australian bands such as Bluejuice , Cassette Kids , Damn Arms , Duke Of Windsor , Ghostwood , Regurgitator , Sparkadia and Van She . The Canadians Tegan and Sara engaged them in 2010 as the opening act for their Australian tour. In 2011 they played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg .

With Dark Storm from their third EP, they were able to place themselves in the Australian charts for the first time, and even if the song only came in at number 40, it eventually went gold .

In 2011 her debut album Prisoner , produced by Lachlan Mitchell , was released , which entered the Australian album charts at number 2 in October. It won an ARIA Award from the Australian music industry for best independent album and was nominated in seven other categories. The Jezabels also won the Australian Music Prize, worth 30,000 Australian dollars, for their album.

In 2012, The Jezabels performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California, the Lollapalooza in Chicago, T in the Park , de-Affaire , the Melt! , Dockville and the Pukkelpop Festival. Her album Prisoner was released abroad and made it into the charts in Germany and Switzerland.

Gunther Reinhardt from Rolling Stone awarded 3 out of 5 possible stars. In his review it was said: “The songs on 'Prisoner' set life's dramas to music with verve, synthesizers , guitars and Hayley's [sic!] Mary's voice overlap each other - accompanied by odd rhythms . […] Sometimes The Jezabels confuse intrusiveness with urgency. [...] to like [U] m this album, you have to anyway love the opulent, the epic, also has the excursions powerpop in the mainstream can withstand (Long Highway '). "

Caroline Sullivan from the Guardian awarded 3 out of 5 stars and classified Prisoner under Gothic and Rock 'n' Roll . The highly dramatic, radio-friendly Emo show similarities with Paramore and Evanescence . The "cherry on the cake" is Hayley Mary, who gives the album character.

Dom Gourlay from drownedinsound.com was mostly positive (especially about the band's stage presence), awarded 7 out of 10 points and made comparisons with U2 , Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac , Liz Fraser , Kate Bush , David Lynch , Florence Welch and Lana Del Rey . According to his conclusion, Prisoner is not the timeless classic we had hoped for, but a solid debut that could promise the band a bright future.

In 2014 the band played at the Glastonbury Festival , the T-in-the-Park Festival, the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Deichbrand, among others . Before that, the second album The Brink , produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat , was released in the same year . Thomas Winkler from Musikexpress awarded The Brink 4 out of 6 stars. He also drew a comparison with U2 and said that The Brink was "a wind that blows your head free with guitars that try hard to sound powerful and yet never rise to phallic size." The Jezabels always succeed again, "the Rockismen and the Indie - clichés with sexiness and elegance equip."

The Guardian awarded the top rating of 5 stars. Harriet Gibsone saw The Brink being influenced by The Edge . In psychotherapy , she was reminded of Shakespear's sister . The album completely disregards subtlety and coolness . The lyrics are spiced with anger and social frustration. The album is mostly regressive, but in a way satisfactory.

Her third album, Synthia , was released in 2016. As on the debut, the producer was Lachlan Mitchell. The album title alludes to the new synthesizers Shannon bought for the album and the first name Cynthia . The album debuted at number 4 on the Australian charts. It reached number 1 in the "Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts".

The associated world tour had to be canceled shortly before the album was released because Heather Shannon had to be treated for ovarian cancer at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. Since they had recovered sufficiently, the band was able to announce in July that the tour could be rescheduled from September.

Shannon used the forced break from touring life for a collaboration with Peter Garrett ( Midnight Oil ) on his solo debut A New Version Of Now . Hayley Mary supported Birds of Tokyo vocally on Discoloured on their album Brace . For the Australian hip-hop duo horror show , she sang on After Dark on their album Bardo State . Together with Michael Dow she contributed Flawless as original music for the sci-fi thriller Butterflies . Sam Lockwood started a solo and remix project called Marat Sad .

Synthia received 5 out of 5 points from the Guardian's critic . The Australian Rolling Stone spoke of "a strong return to form". The German Rolling Stone, however, attested the album "a good portion of mainstream pathos" and awarded 2.5 out of 5 points. The Musikexpress considered the album to be rather weak ("Too much is stuck [...] in the fluffy sound.") And awarded 2.5 out of 6 points. Uwe Wohlmacher , moderator and critic for Tonart at Deutschlandradio Kultur , missed that “certain extra” and wrote: “Nice to listen to and a step forward, but still not as good as on the debut”. The opening sequence of Stand and Deliver is a paraphrase of Shirley Temples When I'm With You from her film Sweet Little Fratz . Pleasure Drive was remixed by Zero Percent , a project sponsored by Presets Kim Moyes and Australian DJ and label founder Mike Callander .

In September 2017, The Jezabels supported refugees by performing for Amnesty International's Give A Home campaign at Sofar (Songs from a room) in Sydney.

In late 2017, Shannon was hired by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra to write a classical piece. Sequence and Variation was recorded by the Metropolitan Orchestra under the direction of Sarah Grace-Williams at the ABC Center and performed at Petersham Town Hall. She also wrote Study in Morbid Fragments , a piece for chamber orchestra performed by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra at the Brisbane Powerhouse Theater.

In 2018 she was entrusted by the Polyphony Choir in Sydney with two pieces for voice and synthesizer, which contained text by the poet Judith Wright and were performed under the title The Angel Leads . At the beginning of 2019, the ACO Collective commissioned the classic pieces Ricochet and Ricochet from a Distance from Heather Shannon.

Nik Kaloper was responsible for the recording of the Berzerker Boyz album by the hardcore punk band from Sydney of the same name in 2018 .

In October 2019, Hayley Mary released her solo debut single The Piss, The Perfume . Ordinary Me came out in December . Was a producer respectively Scott Horscroft . Both songs were co-written by Johnny Took from the Australian band DMA's . On The Piss, The Perfume , Hayley Mary was also assisted by Patrick Harrowsmith . In January 2020, she released the official video for Like A Woman Should . In April, Brat was published on YouTube. In the video, Matty D'Arienzo Hayley Mary tattoos the song title on her left upper arm. All songs were released in January 2020 on the EP The Piss, The Perfume on the I OH YOU label.

In January 2020 Shannon received the Prelude - scholarship from Bundanon Trust .

In April 2020, KYVA , a project by Kyle Linahan , released the single Dollar Sign , which was co-produced by Sam Lockwood.

Film music

The band contributed music to the Australian mystery short film The Garden (2011).

The episode Hope for the Hopeless of the TV series Grey's Anatomy - The Young Doctors included the song Easy to Love in 2012 .

Nobody Nowhere was used in the 7th episode ( In the Beginning ) of the 5th season of True Blood in July 2012 .

Endless Summer is the final song of the Australian surfer drama Drift (2013).

Eden , the final episode of the fourth season of the Netflix series The Killing , featured Piece of Mind as background music in 2014 .

Heather Shannon and Sam Lockwood reached the tropscore final in Australia's largest film music competition in 2014. They also wrote the pieces Picture Of You and Running Song for the original score of the sports drama Broke (2016) and recorded them.

For the comedy Book Week they composed Man's World for the soundtrack together with Gabrielle Hunter in 2018 . There are also Shannon and Lockwood's Bedtime and Library Reading pieces .

Discography

Albums

  • Prisoner (2011)
  • Live at the Hordern Pavilion (2012, in Germany only available as an import)
  • The Brink (2014)
  • Synthia (2016)

EPs

  • The Man Is Dead (2009)
  • She's So Hard (2009)
  • Dark Storm (2010)

Songs

  • Hurt Me (2009)
  • Dark Storm (2010)
  • Endless Summer (2011)
  • Trycolour (2011)
  • Rosebud (2012)
  • City Girl (2012)
  • The End (2013)
  • Look of Love (2014)
  • Come Alive (2015)
  • Pleasure Drive (2016)
  • My Love Is My Disease (2016)
  • Smile (2016)

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - Switzerland - Australia
  2. ↑ Gold / Platinum Awards , Australia 2011
  3. ^ ARIA Awards , database entries for The Jezabels

Web links

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