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Grace Jones

Juanita MORE!

Friday, September 23, 2022
Doors: 7:00 pm | Show: 8:00 pm
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Grace Jones

Another Planet Entertainment is committed to producing safe events. Please review our most up-to-date COVID-19 policy requirements for entry on our Health & Safety page.

* Policy is subject to change

This event is all ages.

$85.00 – General Admission Floor
$85.00 – Reserved Seating
$125.00 – Reserved Seating

*plus applicable service fees

For an additional $60.00, you can opt in to upgrade your experience to include access to the exclusive Telegraph Room before, during and after the show! Please note all Telegraph Room upgrades are subject to availability.

Join us at The Den one hour before doors for food & drinks!

All doors & show times subject to change.

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Grace Jones

Grace Jones as singer, actress, author, traveller, artist and revolutionist has been a shape-shifting trouble-making meta-presence in the entertainment universe since her emergence as a model in New York City and Paris in the early 1970s.

Relishing the dangerous possibilities of late 1970s New York, her highly provocative often riotous shows in downtown lofts and nightclubs saw her crowned as Disco Queen with attitude and celebrated as an ultimate Gay Icon. Grace became one of the most audacious and unforgettable characters to emerge from the legendary Studio 54 nightclub in Manhattan, creating pioneering disco classics such as ‘I Need a Man’ and the enduring ‘La vie en rose.’ She was a pivotal streetwise part of a community of iconoclastic artists that included Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. Her adventurous visual work as subject, image and collaborator with conceptual artist/designer Jean-Paul Goude achieved mythic status. And no-one wore the surreal clothes of Issey Miyake quite like Grace Jones.

It was an experimental rule breaking New York time when writers became artists, artists became filmmakers, actors became dancers and poets became musicians. Prowling at the centre of it all, Grace Jones became Grace Jones, time and time again.

In 1980s, craving new territory, Grace escaped a crowded and degraded disco scene, pursuing her more extreme theatrical interests. Her music also broke free, inspired by maverick impresario Chris Blackwell of her label Island Records, using his newly built Compass Point studios in Nassau to put Grace at the vivid centre of a new kind of mysterious, eruptive soul music. This radiant dream and bass Grace Jones sound blended house, reggae, new wave, R&B and electronica into a timeless, influential hybrid showcased on three majestic albums, Warm Leatherette, Nightclubbing and Living My Life. Songs by Iggy Pop, Roxy Music, Chrissie Hynde, Joy Division, The Normal and Sting were interpreted as deviant modern standards, and highly charged original songs like ‘Pull Up to The Bumper’ and ‘My Jamaican Guy’ became instant classics.

Post-Compass Point music in the 1980s with supreme pop producers Trevor Horn and Nile Rogers introduced transcendent Grace anthems ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ and ‘I’m Not Perfect’. She ended the 20th century as Bond villain, screen vampire, post-modern celebrity, international scandal, wild, all-seeing comedian, and transformative avant-garde pop star, and Grace kept coming in the 21st Century.

The 2008 Hurricane album and her 2014 New York Times best-selling memoir I’ll Never Write My Memoirs dived deep into her extraordinary life and mind – both looked forward as she looked back at how she rejects her strict religious up-bringing in Jamaica, drops out and drops acid in hippie communes with Timothy Leary, hunts for adventure, lives to perform, answers to no-one and invents her own holy and hedonistic form of futuristic show business.

In 2022, still seeming to be no age at all, occupying her own mutant time and space, she curated the famous Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre and materialised as stand out headliner on the all-star cross-genre Beyonce album Renaissance, supernaturally generating some permanent attention on ‘Move.’ As the New York Times says, by inviting Grace into her world to swap histories and combine imaginative energy, Beyonce acknowledges Grace’s ‘bounteous musical might’ and confirms how ‘pop music has been tattooed with Jones’s influence for 45 years.’

Grace Jones indeed. Grace f****** Jones. Who else?

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