The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Origin Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Years active 2003 - Present
Label(s) Virgin Records 2006-2007
Capitol Records 2007-present
Website www.redjumpsuit.com
Members
Ronnie Winter
Duke Kitchens
Elias Reidy
Joey Westwood
Jon Wilkes
This article is about the band, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. For the album by the same band, see The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (album)

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (also known as Red Jumpsuit Apparatus or RJA is an American rock band that formed in 2003 in Jacksonville, Florida.

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[edit] History

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus started out as a local band in Middleburg, Florida, which is south of Jacksonville, according to The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' official website. The name, "Red Jumpsuit Apparatus", was chosen by placing random words on a wall, and then blindfolding one of the members and choosing a few words. Some other names the band thought about using were "Umbrella Ninjas", and "Evil Slamina". (Evil Slamina being 'Live Animals' spelled backwards.) The band was unofficially started by Ronnie Winter and Duke Kitchens in 2001 after they had played together doing Blink-182 cover songs in AP music theory. It wasn't started officially until 2003.

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released an untitled demo with three songs in mid 2004. Immediately after they followed that up with their first EP the "Kins and Carroll" also in mid 2004. By the end of 2004 they added songs to their EP to complete a 12 song LP also untitled. In 2005 they signed to Jason Flom at Virgin records. Later in 2006 they released their first LP, Don't You Fake It with the singles "Face Down", "False Pretense", "Your Guardian Angel", and "Damn Regret", which was certified gold on November 27, 2006 by the RIAA for sales shipments exceeding 500,000 copies.[1]As of February 2007, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus headlined the US Take Action Tour organized for the prevention of youth suicide, along with bands such as My Chemical Romance and Rise Against.[2] Their song "In Fate's Hands" (which was the name of Joey and Elias's previous project) is featured in the video game Madden NFL 07, their song "Face Down" is featured in the video game MX vs. ATV: Untamed

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Don't You Fake It Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD) was released on February 23, 2007. The CD features the album and two exclusive songs, an acoustic version of "Face Down" and a never released out of Australia bonus track "Disconnected".


In a 2007 interview with the Florida Entertainment Scene, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus teamed up with Virgin Records to raise funds for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. They also headlined the Take Action! Tour which sponsors awareness against teen suicide and against animal cruelty.

As of June 2007, according to Billboard.com, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus have begun work on a second album that should be released in early 2009.[3] The band was pulled out of their confirmed appearances at the Australian Soundwave Festival Tour 2008 by Label president Jason Flom who promised to have the band in the studio by February 1st, but didn't pull through citing the current faltering position of EMI's financial problems.

As of April 2008, the band began an acoustic tour the east coast in various locations with the group Amaru, who is from the same home town. Ronnie said that the tour felt like they were "Getting back where we all started."

"In Fate's Hands" is used in Madden NFL 07 as well as the 2007 EVER OSL Starleague (Ongamenet). Additional songs used during that OSL season were "Waiting" and "Atrophy".

After pulling out of the 2008 Australian Soundwave Festival, the band is taking part in the line-up for 2009.

On September 30th 2008, the band announced in a Myspace blog that on October 3rd, they would be premiering a demo version of a song from the upcoming album. The song was to be available a day earlier for members of the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus "Alliance" fan group. However, the studio of the song "Pen and Paper" was released to members of the "Alliance" fan group on October 9th, and was released on the band's MySpace the following day.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year Title Chart positions U.S. Certification U.S. Sales Worldwide Sales
2004 The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus None None N/A N/A
2006 Ass Shaker/Justify/Face Down EP None None N/A N/A
2006 Don't You Fake It[4] #25 U.S. Platinum 1,112,182
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2007 AOL Sessions Undercover-EP[5] None None N/A N/A
2007 Your Guardian Angel EP[5] #2 in the Philippines None N/A N/A
2009 Untitled 2nd studio album None None N/A N/A

[edit] References

  1. ^ THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS Turns Gold: 'DON'T YOU FAKE IT' Is Certified Gold, PR Newswire
  2. ^ TICKETS: Dave Matthews Band to play MGM Grand on March 23-24, Las Vegas Review-Journal
  3. ^ Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Hoarding New Songs, Billboard.com
  4. ^ The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus discography, AOL music
  5. ^ a b The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Google Music

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