Redline Records was an

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based in

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, Australia. Started in the year 2000 as a joint project between the band,

Jebediah Jebediah are an Australian alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. They were formed by Chris Daymond on lead guitar, Kevin Mitchell (aka Bob Evans) on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, and Vanessa Thornton on bass guita ...

, and its management company, Naked Ape Management, the label predominantly released recordings of Australian

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bands under

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agreements. Redline Records was

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by Shock Records in Australia and

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. Following the final stage of the label's life, in which two

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and one EP were released in 2004 and 2005, respectively, the label's operations were closed without a press release. Since the cessation of Redline Records, artists from the label's roster have either disbanded, entered a period of

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or have moved on to other

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arrangements.

History

Kevin Mitchell, member of Jebediah, has explained in relation to the formation of the label:

I think we were all pretty naive about what we, what we were achieving—we were having too much fun to get kind of caught up. We'd just released our second album overseas on an independent label; and, spent time in America as an independent act. And that was around about the time where we started our own label, just to, um, release, maybe, release a few, some bands of friends of ours, in bands.

Former staff

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and A&R: Heath Bradby

Deregistration

The official label name, "REDLINE RECORDS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD", was listed as deregistered on the

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's "National Names Index" on 18 December 2011.

Artists

* Adam Said Galore *

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Sekiden Sekiden were an Australian three-piece pop band formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 1998 by Simon Graydon on lead guitar and vocals, Mirko Vogel on drums and his sister Seja on keyboards and lead vocals. They released two studio albums, ''Junior ...

* Bob Evans *

Big Heavy Stuff Big Heavy Stuff was an Australian indie rock band, established in 1990 in Sydney, New South Wales. The band released four studio albums before folding in the mid-2000s, later reuniting for some select shows between 2009 and 2010. The band toured ...

Front End Loader Front End Loader are an Australian rock band which formed in December 1991 with founding mainstays, Bowden Campbell on guitar and vocals; Davis Claymore on lead vocals and guitar; Richard Corey on bass guitar; and Peter Kostic on drums. Front ...

Blueline Medic Blueline Medic were a four-piece rock band from Melbourne, Australia. 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. In ...

* Idlewild *

Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Mesa, Arizona. The band is composed of lead vocalist and lead guitarist Jim Adkins, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch, and drummer Zach Lind. They h ...

The Nation Blue The Nation Blue is a rock band formed in Tasmania and based in Melbourne, Victoria, noted for their intense live performances and bleak subject matter. They have toured nationally in Australia and internationally in Brazil, America and Japan and ...

Post-label activity

Bradby, as of 2012, works as the Head of A&R for Warner Music Australia, in addition to overseeing his management company, The Fidelity Corporation. Following a period of hiatus, Jebediah released its fifth album, ''Kosciuszko'', in 2011, and lead singer and rhythm guitarist, Kevin Mitchell, relocated to Melbourne, Australia. The band entered into an arrangement with a new management company, Catherine Haridy Management, prior to the release of ''Kosciuszko''.

References

External links

Discogs: Redline RecordsFidelity CorporationJebediah discuss Redline Records in a band documentary
Indie rock record labels Record labels established in 2000 Australian independent record labels {{Australia-record-label-stub