Parkway Drive have distanced themselves from a former worker who’s pleaded responsible to an underage intercourse offence.
Earlier this month, Jed Gordon, a former member of the Australian metalcore band’s touring entourage and the brother of drummer Jed Gordon, pleaded responsible to costs of getting sexual activity with a 15-year-old lady in 2002, when he was in his early 20s.
On March 21, the band responded with a social media assertion, saying that they stand with the sufferer and have ended their relationship with Jed, who had develop into part of their Australian merchandise group.
“We’ve lately realized that somebody we’ve been related to has pleaded responsible to an underage intercourse offence in 2002,” they wrote. “That is appalling and we condemn it. We’re gutted and we help the sufferer.
“This occurred earlier than we had been a band, nevertheless we bear ethical duty for contracting him from 2003, on and off through the years. Whereas he hasn’t toured with us since 2017, extra lately he’s been a part of our Australian on-line merch group.
“When the band heard about this, we terminated his contract instantly. He’s not concerned with Parkway Drive in any capability. That is heartbreaking on a really human scale.’
Lead singer Winston McCall spoke additional on the subject by way of Instagram earlier at this time (March 24), saying, “We help the sufferer 100%.”
He added, “She deserves justice. She deserves her house, she deserves her time, she deserves to be heard. 20 years of trauma, I can’t think about what that’s wish to bear.”
He went on to unequivocally condemn Jed’s actions – saying, “That is fucked and that is Jed’s reckoning to reply for” – however added that the band bear the “ethical duty” for using him for greater than 20 years.
“We all the time attempt to see the most effective in individuals and that generally means you’re blind to the worst,” he continued. “Anybody that’s had interactions with Jed whereas employed with us, we’re so sorry. We knew he may very well be dangerous with individuals and our inaction on simply that degree, there’s no excuse for that, and we apologise. However we didn’t know the extent of his behaviour. We’ve been fully blindsided by this.”
Along with guitarists Jeff Ling and Luke Kilpatrick, McCall and Ben Gordon based Parkway Drive in Byron Bay in 2003, taking the band’s title from the road the place the Gordons lived and the members used to rehearse. They discovered chart success with their second album, 2007’s Horizons, which reached quantity six in Australia. They began charting internationally with 2010’s Deep Blue and 2012’s Atlas, earlier than 2015’s Ire marked their world breakthrough, in addition to their first time topping the Australian charts.
The band’s final album was 2022’s Darker Nonetheless and McCall stated earlier this yr that the members are utilizing 2026 to put in writing new music. They’ve numerous standalone pageant dates in Asia, the US and Australia booked for this yr and early 2027. See their web site for particulars.
