Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band and very special guests.. LIVE!
“We Are Plastic Ono Band” – Special Encore Performance.
Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, USA. 1st & 2nd Oct 2010.
Yoko Ono, Perry Farrell, Carrie Fisher, Vincent Gallo, RZA, Harper Simon, Tune-Yards, Yuka Honda, Haruomi Hosono, Cornelius & Sean Lennon.
Oct 1st only: Iggy Pop, Nels Cline, Mike Watt
Oct 2nd only: Lady GaGa, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore
Book tickets here for Fri 1 Oct / Sat 2 Oct.
Dear Friends
In this very special year, which would have seen my husband and lifetime partner John Lennon reach the age of 70, I was surprised that so many musicians from all over the world sent me their ideas of how they were making a tribute to John this year. But I was surprised the most by a call from EMI presenting me with a very ambitious project to get John Lennon’s voice – his singing, his music and his lyrics – out to the world this year…
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The legendary artist reconvenes Plastic Ono Band for her first local shows in years. By Jay Ruttenberg, Time Out New York
There’s a great old yarn about an avant-garde figure who emerges from a mental institution in the late ’60s and attends an event downtown. John Lennon and Yoko Ono make their entrance. “Who’s the guy with Yoko?” the avant-gardist inquires. The anecdote isn’t inconceivable. Before her path collided with Lennon’s, Ono was, of course, a macher in an art underground that paid no heed to popular culture.
9. YOKO ONO
She has borne herself with more integrity and dignity than all her critics combined. She has generated an incredible body of work — articulate, experimental, feminist, inspirational — as 1992′s massive Ono Box Set proves. She positively influenced John Lennon — possibly the most important popular music icon of late 20th century — encouraging him to lose his misogyny and become politically active. (She was also directly responsible for Lennon’s finest work, the primal scream therapy of Plastic Ono Band.) She has influenced generations of left-field musicians, from PiL to Sonic Youth to Huggy Bear. Ono is America’s most underrated artist.
Dear Friends Thankyou all so much for the overwhelming response to the THE SUN IS DOWN! remix competition! We were surprised that they were all of a very high standard, which we have not counted on. We’ve now realized that we need more time in order to give a good listening to all of your [...]
by Hays Davis, Richmond.com There’s a fact about Yoko Ono that has been obscured over the past few decades due largely to her life and work with her late husband. Early in her career, Ono became an acclaimed and influential artist in her own right through her development of fascinating conceptual and performance pieces. Having [...]
REVIEWS ★★★★★ “Excellent, essential” UNCUT ★★★★★ “Fantastically cool, fearlessly weird” DAILY TELEGRAPH ★★★★ “Brilliant, absorbing, thoughtful” THE INDEPENDENT ★★★★ “Challenging, tender” OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY ★★★★ “The best work of her musical career” NME ★★★★ “Brawny, brainy avante-rock” THE ONION (AV CLUB) ★★★★ “Beautifully desolate, bittersweet” PITCHFORK ★★★★ “Truly vital: unsettling, touching, funny, undeniable” ROLLING STONE [...]
The performance artist, with her revived Plastic Ono Band and a new album, is bent on exploding the barriers among music styles. Oh, and if it does well on the charts, all the better. By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times London’s annual Meltdown Festival is one of the U.K.’s hippest events. A specially selected curator [...]
By John Payne, LA Weekly Yoko Ono has a new album coming out tomorrow, September 22. In tribute to the free form, eclectic spirit of her all-star band of the ’70s with husband John Lennon, she has credited her album to Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. It’s called Between My Head and the Sky (Chimera [...]
Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On After 40 years of being unfairly accused of breaking up the Beatles and harshly mocked for her avant garde art and pop music, Yoko Ono is finally being recognised as a true pioneer. By Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph Soon after I sit down to talk with Yoko [...]
by Linda Laban, Spinner, 16 Sept 2009 The release of ‘Between My Head and the Sky’ marks the first time that music has been issued under the iconic Plastic Ono Band name since the early ’70s. There’s only one original member on board, though, and that is namesake Yoko Ono, who chatted with Spinner as [...]
ORNETTE COLEMAN’S MELTDOWN 2009 Sunday 14 June sees the first ever UK performance by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, with guest artists including Sean Lennon, Antony Hegarty, Mark Ronson, Chimera Music artists Charlotte Muhl, Yuka Honda, Shahzad Ismaily, Pamelia Kurstin and Ohyamada “Cornelius” Keigo, Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu & Yuko Araki from Cornelius. It is also hoped that [...]
Now available for digital download in the USA: Download: http://www.fina-music.com/catalog/index.html?id=103925 CD: http://www.othermusic.com/ Also available via Amazon Japan CHIMERA kī-ˈmir-ə, kə- [ki-meer-uh, kahy- meer-uh] noun 1: fire-breathing she-monster in Greek mythology having a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail 2: an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts 3: an illusion or fabrication of the mind [...]
Chimera Music presents: The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger: Sean Lennon & Charlotte Muhl If By Yes: Yuka Honda, Petra Haden, Yuko Araki & Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu Kemp & Eden: Charlotte Muhl & Eden Rice Sean Lennon Yoko Ono Plastic ONO Band 21 January 2009 Liquid Room 3-16-6 Higashi, Tokyo, 13 160-0021 Japan Tel: +81 3 5464 0800 Email: ebisu@liquidroom.net http://www.liquidroom.net Tickets: http://ent.pia.jp/pia/event.do?eventCd=0857831 2009年1月21日に、世界に先駆けて日本での開催が決定した、新レーベル起ち上げ！イベントライヴ！！ キメラミュージックは、映像と音楽の融合、そこから生まれる新しい経験をあらゆるユーザーに伝えて行きたい。 [...]
After a touring retrospective and the reissue of eleven albums, it’s time to take Yoko Ono seriously While Yoko Ono is still regarded by many as the Beatles’ persona non grata, a quiet re-evaluation of her art and music has been underway for some time. A sort of subcultural logic has dictated that anyone [...]
SOMETIME IN NEW YORK CITY John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory and Invisible Strings Disc: 1 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World Sisters, O Sisters Attica State Born In A Prison New York City Sunday Bloody Sunday Luck Of The Irish John Sinclair Angela We’re All Water Personnel John Lennon: [...]
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band Why Why Not Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City AOS Touch Me Paper Shoes Extra Tracks on CD: Open Your Box – John Lennon Something More Abstract South Wind – John Lennon WHY (5’37″) By Yoko Ono Recorded: October 1970 at Abbey Road Instrumentation: [...]
HIT PARADER “Our London Interview” August, 1970 Questions for Hit Parader By Richard Robinson. HP: This whole thing, in terms of music right now, the general progressive people or the general rock thing which is getting down to be whether you’re going to go with Led Zeppelin, you’re going to go with this incredibly intellectual [...]
Release Date: October 20, 1969 Label: Apple Length: 55:25 Synopsis John & Yoko: all instruments and vocals. “John & Yoko” recorded 22 April 1969 between 11 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. “Amsterdam 1969″ recorded Amsterdam, 1969. Produced by John and Yoko (Bag Productions). “Who Has Seen The Wind?” (B-side to “Instant Karma”) Music and lyrics by [...]
