News Room : Read the unsettling ‘business card’ linked to Parkway Drive drummer’s brother as he pleads guilty to underage sex offence

A disturbing detail has emerged in the wake of the underage sex scandal that has rocked Australian hardcore band Parkway Drive.

Jed ‘Chode’ Gordon, brother of the band’s drummer Ben Gordon, pleaded guilty earlier this month to having sexual intercourse with a person between 14 and 16 years old. 

Gordon, who also served as the band’s merchandise manager, is reported to have texted the girl in 2002 when he was 21 years old, and she was 15.

In the wake of the shock scandal, a business card belonging to Gordon has re-emerged.

An X user shared a photo from the band’s 2013 book Ten Years of Parkway Drive, chronicling the metalcore band’s first decade.

The photo in question was a ‘business card’ belonging to Gordon which outlined his role as ‘Tour Manager / Merch Dude’.

A disturbing detail has emerged in the wake of the underage sex scandal that has rocked Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive

Jed ‘Chode’ Gordon, brother of the band’s drummer Ben Gordon, pleaded guilty earlier this month to having sexual intercourse with a person between 14 and 16 years old

The card also contained a sentence that suggested Gordon was using it as a means to meet women at Parkway Drive shows during a time when they regularly played all-ages gigs.

‘Hi. My Name is Jed,’ the card read. ‘We should hang out later. Your [sic] cute.’

Gordon admitted his sexual contact with the child went on through 2003 when his brother, Ben, started Parkway Drive with his friends in Byron Bay. 

It stopped around the time the girl turned 16 and when Gordon was 22.

In 2021, the woman attempted to reconnect with Gordon before going to police in 2023.

He was arrested in July 2025 and pleaded guilty on March 16 to the single count of sexual intercourse with an underage person.

He was released on bail and will face sentencing on May 19.

Police were told Gordon had texted the 15-year-old girl in 2002 when he was 21 years old and met her in a park, where they had sex.

In the wake of the shock scandal, a business card belonging to Gordon has re-emerged. An X user shared a photo from the band’s 2013 book Ten Years of Parkway Drive, chronicling the metalcore band’s first decade

‘Hi. My Name is Jed,’ the card read. ‘We should hang out later. Your [sic] cute.’ Jed (right) is pictured with brother Ben Gordon

Last week, frontman Winston McCall hit Instagram to address the band’s fans directly after a previous statement was widely panned for failing to name Jed while distancing members from his behaviour.

‘We support the victim 100 per cent,’ McCall said in the expansive video.

‘She deserves justice. She deserves her space, she deserves her time, she deserves to be heard. Twenty years of trauma – I cannot imagine what that is like to bear.’

The singer repeatedly condemned Gordon’s actions, declaring: ‘This is f***ed. This is f***ed. And this is Jed’s reckoning to answer for.’

McCall acknowledged the band’s own failings over the affair.

‘We employed him for a long time, and we put him in a position where he had contact with a lot of people, and that’s our moral responsibility to carry,’ he said.

‘We always have tried to see the best in people, and sometimes it means you’re blind to the worst.

‘Anyone that’s had bad interactions with Jed while employed with us, we’re so sorry. We knew he could be bad with people. And on just that level, there’s no excuse for that. I’m going to apologise.

Jed was arrested in July 2025 and pleaded guilty on March 16 to the single count of sexual intercourse with an underage person. He was released on bail and will face sentencing on May 19

‘But we did not know the extent of his behaviour. We did not know. We’ve been completely blindsided by this.’

The band claimed it only learned of Gordon’s guilty plea through circulating screenshots and court documents online. 

McCall said the band had emerged from a bleak hardcore scene in Byron Bay plagued by youth unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, and domestic violence which seeped into surf culture, sporting clubs, pubs and homes.

The band tried to create a ‘sanctuary’ for young people, he said, but McCall admitted power imbalances, consent issues and bullying had crept back in.

‘Women deserve to be safe. Women deserve to be heard. Women deserve to be seen, and women deserve to be respected,’ he said.

The revelation that the band knew Gordon could be ‘bad with people’ but failed to act has sparked intense debate online.

In 2009, the band appeared on ABC’s Australian Story where they referred to ‘Chode’ – slang for penis – as the ‘sixth member’ of Parkway Drive.

In that documentary, the band are seen tormenting Gordon, who is described as ‘the most f***ed up human ever to grace the planet’.

Last week, frontman Winston McCall hit Instagram to address the band’s fans directly after a previous statement was widely panned for failing to name Jed while distancing members from his behaviour

The band’s initial statement came under heavy fire from fans

‘He’s just so gross. He went through this phase. He’s put on heaps of weight. He’s just fat, he’s s*** and lazy,’ one member said.

In another video filmed by Gordon himself during the 2010 Warped Tour, Gordon zoomed in on a young reporter’s breasts before shamelessly making lewd remarks about his genitals.

The band mercilessly grilled the young reporter: ‘How many Warped Tour guys have you got with so far?’  

Daily Mail went to Parkway Drive’s management for comment, but was referred to the Instagram video.