Pre-sale tickets to see the ‘La Vie en Rose’ singer are available from this morning
Get ready to pull up the bumper, baby, Grace Jones is hitting South London for a dazzling open-air concert this summer and pre-sale tickets are about to go on sale.
The “La Vie En Rose” singer will reign supreme over crowds at London Crystal Palace Bowl on Friday, July 31, with doors opening at 5pm. Presale tickets will go on sale at 10am on Thursday, February 19, ahead of the general sale at 10am on Friday, February 20, with Mastercard preferred tickets going on sale at the same time. Jones will be supported by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Soul II Soul.
Jones has won rave reviews in recent years for reimagining her decades-old hits for a new generation of fans, in particular, a dazzling live performance of “Slave To The Rhythm” while twirling a hula hoop for over four minutes. She joins a host of legendary acts who have performed at Crystal Palace Bowl in the past, including Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, and Elton John. Here, we dive into what fans can expect.
A music legend like no other
In the pantheon of musical greats; there’s no one quite like Grace Jones. Born in Jamaica in 1946, she rose to become one of the top supermodels of the 1970s, fortifying her Amazonian physique with a shaven-headed, shoulder-padded persona – a look she crafted with the help of French photographer and sometime-lover Jean-Paul Goude.
A leading light of New York’s Studio 54 club scene along with the likes of Jerry Hall and Iman, Jones soon transported her aura of androgynous glamour to music, branching into disco with the classic album “Fame” in 1978, before veering into darker realms of punk and new wave with 1980’s “Warm Leatherette”, which showcased Jones’ true sound with the kitschy “Warm Leatherette”, “The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game”, and my own personal favourite – the no-nonsense invective “Bullsh**”
It was the release of Jones’ seminal 1981 album, “Nightclubbing” and its iconic cover of her wearing an Armani suit jacket that catapulted her to the periphery of the mainstream, yielding the eerie hit, “I’ve Seen that face Before” as well as “Pull Up To The Bumper”. Other hits lined up for Jones throughout the 1980s, notably “Slave To the Rhythm”, “My Jamaican Guy”, “La Vie en Rose” and “Nipple To The Bottle”, but she remained a misunderstood presence, adored in critics’ circles and LGBTQ fans, and an enigma to many others.
Tickets
Presale tickets will go on sale at 10am on Thursday, February 19, ahead of the general sale at 10am on Friday, February 20, with Mastercard preferred tickets going on sale at the same time.
Grace Jones will play at London Crystal Palace Bowl on Friday, July 31, supported by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Soul II Soul.
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