As punk as pink can be.
Naoko, Atsuko and Risa make the sugar rush for the stage as these gigantors of Japanese astro-pop -punk fire up their quatro decade-plus power packs and rocket to their best place… Australia 2024, when they will rocket around the country for a 9-date tour, marking the band’s sixth tour of the country since their first in 1997. Hey ho day glo!
Shonen Knife (meaning “Boy Knife” in Japanese) are a Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, in 1981. Heavily influenced by 1960s girl groups, pop bands, The Beatles, and early punk rock bands, such as the Ramones, the trio crafts stripped-down songs with simplistic lyrics sung both in Japanese and English. They continue to be the most internationally recognized name in Japanese Rock, the indie darlings of hipsters and rock stars alike, which over the course of their four-decade-long career has earned them a worldwide cult following and made avid fans out of seminal ’90s alternative rock bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, and Redd Kross.
