RED JUMPSUIT HAS APPARATUS TO HELP WOMEN

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus hosted a benefit for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, or NCADV, at rock club Snitch in New York City last week. The band was joined by members of the organization, and Tomo from 30 Seconds To Mars also made an appearance to watch an acoustic set by their Virgin label mates.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released their first single, the very personal song “Face Down,” which vocalist Ronnie Winter said is inspired by first-hand experience.

“It’s a song about domestic abuse. My parents, unfortunately, weren’t very nice to each other — respectively both ways to be equally honest. It was a violent relationship. It was just something I grew up in. It’s not something that I even… I’m not ashamed of it. Nobody should be. It’s just something that happpened, whatever. Things happen, you move on, whatever. I don’t think it’s anything that can’t be overcome.”

The benefit with the NCADV was a no-brainer for the band, Winter added.

“It’s something that me and Steve, my manager, had discussed for a long time. It’s not anything that was coincidental. It was something Carl, our associate Carl was involved in putting together. The song is pretty self expalnatory, it’s about dometic violence, and anything that you can do in life that’s for a good cause you shoule probably do — just becuase you’re a human being and that’s the right thing to do. So, it only seemed natural to at least reach out and be like, ‘What can I do to help?’ [It’s] just pretty genuine to just try to do the right thing.”

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s “Face Down” now holds the Number 14 Alternative Rock track in the land, and it is off their new album, Don’t You Fake It. The band has U.S. tour dates scheduled through the rest of the year, winding down December 15. The band will then head up North for a few Canadian gigs.