Japanese Breakfast at First Avenue, Minneapolis (11 July 2022)
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The Japanese Breakfast show at First Avenue, in Minneapolis, on July 11th, had sold out… leaving many fans asking for spare tickets and showing at the venue to try and hopefully buy some limited released tickets.
This show was one of the first official shows of the 5th annual Independent Venue Week, a nationwide program to spotlight over 400 venues, in all 50 states and DC. Naturally, all the First Avenue venues (including 7th Street, Fine Line, Turf Club, Palace Theatre) are on the Independent Venue list… so if you go see a show at any of their venues, you’re supporting locally owned and run businesses. Other venues in the Minnesota area, independently run are Elision Playhouse, Granada Theater, The Fitzgerald Theater, and The Parkway Theater.
Anyway, very excited to burst on stage were The Linda Lindas, their first show in Minneapolis.
Just to clarify, Kristin Kontrol (formerly of Dum Dum Girls) is not a member of The Linda Lindas. Kristin Kontrol did assembled the group for Girlschool LA in 2018…. but the actual band members are: Sisters Mila de la Garza (drummer, 11) and Lucia de la Garza (guitar, 14), cousin Eloise Wong (bass, 13), and family friend Bela Salazar (guitar, 17). For a young (literally teenagers), new band, they sure had plenty of songs under their belt, as they played a rock/punk fun 43-min set on the first night of the tour.
So, as I suspected, the band was inspired by the Japanese film, Linda, Linda, Linda, with their theme song “Linda Linda” (Blue Hearts).
If you caught the Japanese Breakfast show at First Avenue in September, it’s almost the same show, down to the Little Big League song, “Boyish”, and same encore songs (“Posing for Cars” and “Diving Woman”). Most of the changes in the new song were to drop songs like “In Heaven” and “The Woman That Loves You”, and adding new songs – mostly on the second half of the set: “The Body Is a Blade” to “Slide Tackle”.
Still, for the audience, they were still very excited to see Japanese Breakfast again, and always big cheers whenever the gong is used (“Paprika”).
Remaining tour dates:
This show was one of the first official shows of the 5th annual Independent Venue Week, a nationwide program to spotlight over 400 venues, in all 50 states and DC. Naturally, all the First Avenue venues (including 7th Street, Fine Line, Turf Club, Palace Theatre) are on the Independent Venue list… so if you go see a show at any of their venues, you’re supporting locally owned and run businesses. Other venues in the Minnesota area, independently run are Elision Playhouse, Granada Theater, The Fitzgerald Theater, and The Parkway Theater.
Anyway, very excited to burst on stage were The Linda Lindas, their first show in Minneapolis.
Just to clarify, Kristin Kontrol (formerly of Dum Dum Girls) is not a member of The Linda Lindas. Kristin Kontrol did assembled the group for Girlschool LA in 2018…. but the actual band members are: Sisters Mila de la Garza (drummer, 11) and Lucia de la Garza (guitar, 14), cousin Eloise Wong (bass, 13), and family friend Bela Salazar (guitar, 17). For a young (literally teenagers), new band, they sure had plenty of songs under their belt, as they played a rock/punk fun 43-min set on the first night of the tour.
So, as I suspected, the band was inspired by the Japanese film, Linda, Linda, Linda, with their theme song “Linda Linda” (Blue Hearts).
If you caught the Japanese Breakfast show at First Avenue in September, it’s almost the same show, down to the Little Big League song, “Boyish”, and same encore songs (“Posing for Cars” and “Diving Woman”). Most of the changes in the new song were to drop songs like “In Heaven” and “The Woman That Loves You”, and adding new songs – mostly on the second half of the set: “The Body Is a Blade” to “Slide Tackle”.
Still, for the audience, they were still very excited to see Japanese Breakfast again, and always big cheers whenever the gong is used (“Paprika”).
Remaining tour dates:
7/12 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown *
7/14 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre *
7/15 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
7/16 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
7/17 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Brewery *
7/19 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
7/20 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Corona
7/21 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
7/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Dell Music Center ^
7/26 – Honolulu, HI @ The Republik
7/31 – Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
8/12-14 – Seattle, WA @ Day In Day Out Festival
8/26 – Stanford, CA @ Here And There
8/28 – Longon, EN @ All Points East Festival
9/2 – Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
9/3 – Denver, CO @ Here And There
9/15 – Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond
10/4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
10/6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl ~
10/7 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds #
10/8-9 – Austin, TX @ ACL Festival
10/20 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
10/21 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
10/22 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Old Fruitmarket
10/24 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
10/25 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
10/26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
10/27 – Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
11/6 – São Paulo, BR @ Primavera Sound São Paulo
11/10 – Santiago, CL @ Primavera en la Ciudad @ Blondie
11/12 – Santiago, CL @ Primavera Sound Santiago
11/13 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Primera Sound Buenos Aires
7/14 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre *
7/15 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant *
7/16 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
7/17 – Kalamazoo, MI @ Bell’s Brewery *
7/19 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY
7/20 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Corona
7/21 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
7/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Dell Music Center ^
7/26 – Honolulu, HI @ The Republik
7/31 – Niigata, JP @ Fuji Rock Festival
8/12-14 – Seattle, WA @ Day In Day Out Festival
8/26 – Stanford, CA @ Here And There
8/28 – Longon, EN @ All Points East Festival
9/2 – Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
9/3 – Denver, CO @ Here And There
9/15 – Louisville, KY @ Bourbon & Beyond
10/4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
10/6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl ~
10/7 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds #
10/8-9 – Austin, TX @ ACL Festival
10/20 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory
10/21 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
10/22 – Glasgow, Scotland @ Old Fruitmarket
10/24 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
10/25 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
10/26 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
10/27 – Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
11/6 – São Paulo, BR @ Primavera Sound São Paulo
11/10 – Santiago, CL @ Primavera en la Ciudad @ Blondie
11/12 – Santiago, CL @ Primavera Sound Santiago
11/13 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Primera Sound Buenos Aires
* w/ The Linda Lindas
^ w/ Yo La Tengo & Cate Le Bon
~ w/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs
# w/ Florence + The Machine
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