SHE'S BACK!

I have been waiting for this for nearly 2 decades! 

With  her brand new Hurricane recording, Grace Jones, tosses aside the clubbing hits that launched her onto the dance floor of Studio 54. The vibe that pervades this album is mostly dub. La Jones's latest whirlwind tears up the bass and throws in both a sliver of rock and ever-so-fashionable ska. The work that was begun with Alex Sadkin and Chris Blackwell on Warm Leatherette is taken one step further with Hurricane.

Her Royal Graceness is back!

This past summer she appeared on stage at the Meltdown Festival in London wearing only a corset and a thong  (not many 60-year-old women - or men - could pull that off, thank you very much!) and some outrageous headgear from  renowned  milliner Philip Treacy. It was as if she had never been out of limelight; the crowd went wild!

Grace Jones is a contralto vocalist.  While her image became more notable than her voice, she is in fact a highly stylized vocalist. She sings in two modes: her monotone speak-sing as in songs like "Private Life", "Walking in the Rain", and "The Apple Stretching", and in an almost soprano mode in such songs as "La Vie en Rose" and "Slave to the Rhythm". - She actually recorded  2 albums in the 1990's - but released neither of them. She  started recording  Hurricane early in 2007, so it was over a year in the making. Her voice is still flawless and her music still a melange of reggae-meets-disco-meets-ultra cool industrial-age nightclub.  It still has that timeless groove. With  her haughty delivery and that mix of steel menace and velvet undertones, it still works!


Grace was recently asked if she had any regrets about her very public story replete with sex (remember Dolph Lundgren?) , drugs, rock 'n' roll....to which she said, "Oh God, NO!  It's the abuse that is bad for you, not the use."

Lucky people  outside the US will get the amazing
opportunity to see Grace Jones perform live in 2009!


Jan 10 2009 8:00P       
  The Sydney Festival Sydney
Jan 11-14 2009 8:00P      
  The Enmore Sydney
Jan 19 2009 7:30P              
  Birmingham Symphony Hall Birmingham

Jan 21 2009 7:30P           
  The Sage Gateshead Gateshead, Northeast
Jan 22 2009 7:30P           
  Glasgow Clyde Auditorium Glasgow, Scotland
Jan 24 2009 7:30P            
  Manchester Apollo Manchester, Northwest
Jan 25 2009 7:30P              
  Bristol Colston Hall Bristol, Southwest

Jan 27-30  2009 7:30P         London Roundhouse London, London and South East

Mar 16 2009 8:00P      Ancienne Belgique Brussels
Mar 17 2009 8:00P      Tempodrom Berlin
Mar 19 2009 8:00P       Paradiso Amsterdam
Mar 22 2009 8:00P        Grand Rex Paris
Mar 25 2009 8:00P        Jahrhuderthalle Frankfurt
Mar 26 2009 8:00P        Phillipshalle Dusseldorf
Mar 28 2009 8:00P         Cirkus Stockholm
Mar 30 2009 8:00P          Falkoner Theatre Copenhagen    

Watch the video, listen to tracks from Hurricane, and be her friend, on MySpace!


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