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The Jezabels

About Me

Hey there

For some deep communication, email us at [email protected]
What are The Jezabels? We are a thing that came out of a few chance meetings at Sydney University. You see, Heather and Hayley had been playing music together for a while. Inevitably came the journey south from Byron - being their place of youth - to Sydney for a foray into higher education. Nik and Sam were studying at Sydney University also. And you know, for some reason you just meet people... We don't have a manifesto as such, but we do have definite intentions in what we do. We wish to play pop, but with a recognizable element of social awareness. We wish to be emotional, but with a sense of certainty that our audiences won't walk away thinking that we take ourselves too seriously. What is paramount is an attempt to push this thing called the culture industry in some direction which makes it more human. (I guess this is all too ambitious but oh well... We do try) Heather studies piano at the conservatorium and reads a bit too much Russian literature. Hayley looks toward her personal canon of pop ballads for guidance in all situations and believes we must return to the way life was prior to the poker machine epidemic. Nik is a science student whom imbues his drumming with formulas and mathematical complexities. Sam is a country music-playing, Marx-spouting communist with a love of all things meaningfully subversive.
I guess our music derives from these things. Please come see us live however - if you are interested that is - for it is the only way to explain!
Cheers.
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THANKS FLAMES YATES

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/01/2007
Band Website: www.thejezabels.com
Band Members: _______________________________________

Nik Kaloper - Drums
Sam Lockwood - Guitar
Hayley Mary - Vocals
Heather Shannon - Piano

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Management/Booking inquiries: Dave Batty
[email protected]

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Influences: ABBA,The Arcade Fire; The National; Dylan Thomas; The South Wales Miners Federation; M Ward; Kate Bush; Cyndi Lauper; Nick Cave; Cowboy Junkies; Transvision Vamp; Shakespeare's Sister; Tori Amos; Chopin; Mozart; Prokofiev; Schrodinger's Cat; Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Sounds Like: ~ The Man is Dead EP Out Now ~
We're pleased to say that our new EP is out in stores, at our shows and available online at iTunes and Waterfront Records (www.waterfrontrecords.com). We sincerely thank anyone who has even taken a remote interest in us as a band... we hope you enjoy it.

Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Tour Photos

We've taken some photos over the past months and thought we may as well share them... alright then. that is all. nik (thejezabels)
Posted by on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:50:00 GMT

Annandale Hotel... then....

Oh, hi!Didn't see you come in...While you're here, we might as well remind you that we're playing tomorrow night (Friday July 10) at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney.We're headlining it and we're excited...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:23:00 GMT

SAVE FBi

SAVE FBI The gigs are all set up  and now we need YOU to get to them. These gigs are FBIs major fund raising initiative  and your chance to prove that Sydney really does give a shit about live musi...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:44:00 GMT

JOSH PYKE TOUR WOO hoo

Hey there everyone, we've just found out that we are supporting senor Josh Pyke at his dates throughout regional Tas,Vic and Nsw. Not only are we stoked to be supporting such a wonderful musician, we ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:35:00 GMT

late February 2009 - the EP is out and we're launching it

Hey there everyone, how are you? Hope you are well.Just updating the blog and finding it hard to write anything meaningful in the context of what has been happening with the fires in Victoria. It is a...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Last few DAYZ

Hey there everyone, it's Sam here... Just sitting here a few days after new years and thought I would write an update... It's a cloudy afternoon and cloudy afternoons call for blog attention. We're ba...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:10:00 GMT

New website......!!!

Hey there, Sam here again, Just letting you know that we've got a website together - it's www.thejezabels.com. It is very simple and all that, however, you can download Disco Biscuit Love from there a...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:27:00 GMT

Up-to-dating

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Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:50:00 GMT

a brief update... Sept 22nd

We're nothing short of shocked and humbled by the amazing experiences we've had over the last couple of months.  So shocked in fact, we've been a little slack at keeping the lines of communicatio...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:56:00 GMT

Miscellaneous notes

Sam here, adding to the blog legacy...  The Hopetoun gig was really fun - thanks everyone who came (especially ollie and his comrades wearing those wonderful tshirts...)  Sorry about the te...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:27:00 GMT