Fresh from making their critically acclaimed live debuts at Australian festivals UNIFY Gathering and Groovin’ The Moo and polishing off their biggest ever national headlining tour, Eora/Sydney alt-rock force RedHook have returned with their most gut-wrenching single to date, Jabberwocky, produced by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic, Yours Truly) and mixed by James Paul Wisner (Underoath, Paramore).
Jabberwocky is an intensely personal song that addresses vocalist Emmy Mack’s experience of being sexually assaulted while on RedHook’s first ever overseas tour.
Using the metaphor of the Jabberwocky (a fictional monster from the Alice In Wonderland mythos which, in the Irwin Allen film adaptation, Alice is ultimately able to vanquish by convincing herself it doesn’t exist), the song centres on Emmy’s coping process of denying her own trauma and the monster who inflicted it in order to effectively “go on with the show”.
