Shonen Knife

Genre: Pop Hometown: Osaka JAPAN
www.shonenknife.net/

Friday, March 18   1:00 a.m.
Elysium   (705 Red River St)

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OSAKA, JAPAN – ‘We are not old-style or new-style. We are always Shonen Knife-style,’ says founding member Naoko Yamano, gearing up for a Spring tour of the U.S. in support of four landmark reissues from the band’s influential early years.

The line-up will include founding sisters Naoko and Atsuko Yamano (the latter of whom switched from drums to bass following the departure of Michie Nakatani), and Shonen Knife tour drummer Etsuko Nakanishi.

‘In this ever-changing world in which we live in,’ wrote LA Weekly, ‘Shonen Knife is one of the few consistently enjoyable pleasures we have left…bless ‘em.’