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New York Post
7 days ago
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- New York Post
Jason Bonham extends Led Zeppelin Evening anniversary Tour. Get tickets
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. The 'Houses of the Holy' have opened their doors again. Jason Bonham recently announced a second leg of his 'Led Zeppelin Evening Tour' celebrating the 50th anniversary of his father's group's album 'Physical Graffiti.' This time around, the rockers will play the album in full — as well as other Zep classics — at 22 theaters, auditoriums, amphitheaters, casinos, state fairs and music festivals all over the Midwest and West Coast from Aug. 1-31. Notable stops on the run include Denver (Aug. 8), Anaheim (Aug. 21) and Seattle (Aug. 30). 'This is my favorite Led Zeppelin album of all time,' Bonham shared in a press release this past February. 'Being able to celebrate it the way we are planning on this tour is something I am extremely excited about. I can't wait for people to come out and see these shows and celebrate this extraordinary record with us.' While on the road this spring, Jason Bonham's LZE regularly performed 'Physical Graffiti' in full as advertised but slightly out of order, according to Set List FM. Once they made the way through the record, the group busted out Zeppelin favorites 'Good Times Bad Times,' 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'Rock and Roll.' Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Evening shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the upcoming second leg of 'Physical Graffiti Tour' is Friday, May 30. Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event. Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Evening tour schedule 2025 A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below. Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Evening set list Most recently, Bonham and co. headlined at San Diego's Humphrey's By The Bay on May 28. Based on our findings at Set List FM, these are the 18 tracks they took to the stage. 01.) 'Custard Pie' 02.) 'The Rover' 03.) 'The Wanton Song' 04.) 'In My Time of Dying' (Blind Willie Johnson cover) 05.) 'Houses of the Holy' 06.) 'In the Light' 07.) 'Sick Again' 08.) 'Bron-Yr-Aur' 09.) 'Boogie With Stu' 10.) 'Black Country Woman' 11.) 'Down By the Seaside' 12.) 'Night Flight' 13.) 'Ten Years Gone' 14.) 'Trampled Under Foot' 15.) 'Kashmir' 16.) 'Good Times Bad Times' 17.) 'Whole Lotta Love' 18.) 'Rock and Roll' Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Evening band members If you like placing names to faces, here are the band members you'll likely see onstage at a JBLZE show. Jason Bonham (drums) James Dylan (vocals, acoustic guitar) Dorian Heartsong (bass, mandolin) Alex Howland (keyboads, guitar) Akio 'Jimmy' Sakurai (lead guitar) 'Physical Graffiti' track listing Although we assume if you've made it this far, you know 'Physical Graffiti' like the back of your hand, here's a quick refresher of all the iconic tunes on the exquisite, ramshackle, heavy album: Side One 01.) 'Custard Pie' 02.) 'The Rover' 03.) 'In My Time of Dying' Side Two 01.) 'Houses of the Holy' 02.) 'Trampled Under Foot' 03.) 'Kashmir' Side Three 01.) 'In the Light' 02.) 'Bron-Yr-Aur' 03.) 'Down by the Seaside' 04.) 'Ten Years Gone' Side Four 01.) 'Night Flight' 02.) 'The Wanton Song' 03.) 'Boogie with Stu' 04.) 'Black Country Woman' 05.) 'Sick Again' Click here to find 'Physical Graffiti' in its entirety. Classic rockers on tour in 2025 While Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening are paying respects to their elders, many of the original icons who shredded live in the '60s and '70s are still going strong. Here are just five of our favorites out and about this year that you won't want to miss live. • Yusuf/Cat Stevens • Ringo Starr • Paul Simon • The Who • Boz Scaggs Who else is road tripping? Take a look at our list of all the biggest classic rockers on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Forbes
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
John Bonham's Son On Tour Playing Led Zeppelin's ‘Physical Graffiti' Album
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - AUGUST 30: Drummer Jason Bonham of Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening ... More performs at PNC Music Pavilion on August 30, 2019 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by) Jason Bonham, the son of late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band's Physical Graffiti album with a tour. Led Zeppelin — consisting of John Bonham, singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones — formed in 1968 and recorded such hard rock classics as 'Whole Lotta Love,' 'Black Dog,' 'Rock and Roll,' 'The Immigrant Song' and 'Stairway to Heaven.' Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 following the tragic death of John Bonham at age 32. Jason Bonham went on to follow in his father's footsteps and has played drums as a session musician and recorded and toured over the years with such bands as Foreigner and Sammy Hagar and the Circle. In addition, he played drums for a pair of Led Zeppelin reunion gigs with Plant, Page and Jones in 1988 and 2007. Now, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's classic album Physical Graffiti, the drummer is hitting the road again with Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening. Bonham began the special tours in 2010 and for this round, the band — also known as JBLZE — will play Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album in its entirety as well as some of the band's other legendary songs, ABC Audio reported. Physical Graffiti, which was released on Feb. 24, 1975, is a double-album release with 15 tracks that includes such Led Zeppelin classics as 'Custard Pie,' 'Houses of the Holy,' 'Trampled Under Foot' and 'Kashmir.' JBLZE kicked off its tour over the weekend in Wallingford, Conn., and is scheduled for 19 more dates across the U.S., wrapping up May 31 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The complete tour schedule is listed on Bonham's website. 1977: Rock band "Led Zeppelin" poses for a portrait in a field in 1977. (L-R) John Paul Jones, ... More Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham. (Photo by Michael) In a recent interview with ABC Audio, Jason Bonham said he'll continue playing JBLZE shows as long as he and the audience like what the band is doing. 'I do it for passion and the love of the music and the people that come to see it,' Bonham told ABC Audio. 'You know, once they stop coming, then we'll stop playing it, I guess.' He also told the outlet that Physical Graffiti is his favorite Led Zepplin album because, among other things, it contains the iconic tune 'Kashmir.' 'Kashmir' is a song where Led Zeppelin "went to another level," Bonham told ABC Audio. John Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening's next tour stop is Tuesday at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, N.Y.
Daily Mirror
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Brit-born lion tamer slammed for 'cruel' circus act as big cats 'trained through fear'
Martin Jr Lacey says he loves his animals, but his big top act has has attracted considerable criticism and protests - with experts warning of a variety of welfare concerns for the big cats. He has described them as the perfect killing machines, but that doesn't stop controversial tamer Martin Jr Lacey from forcing his pride of big cats to perform at Europe's biggest circus. Three tigers and 22 lions, dubbed as 'breathtaking predators', are currently part of his act at Circus Krone in Germany - the last country in the EU not to have introduced plans for a full or partial ban on the use of wild animals. But experts warn that while the artists perform voluntarily, the animals are trained to do so - by fear. For them, life in the circus also means years of suffering, say campaigners - constantly moving from place to place in exhausting journeys. When they are not performing for entertainment, they endure a miserable life in a cage. His use of wild animals, which has also included a hippo, elephants and zebras, has attracted considerable criticism and protests. Just a few weeks ago protesters were kicked out of the show which also uses camels, horses and dogs. Tickets cost from 59 Euros. "The s uffering of animals in circuses must finally end," said Peter Höffken, PETA Germany's specialist for animals in the entertainment industry. "Tradition does not justify cruelty to animals." The Mirror watched on while British-born Martin Jr Lacey, 47, entered the circus ring in Munich for his dangerous performance alongside his 17-year-old son Alexis, who is following in his father's footsteps. While the band above pumped out the opening chords of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Martin Jr grabbed the tail of one male lion pretending to use it as a microphone. Minutes later he was sprawled on top of another. A lioness also rubbed her head against his before he embraced her for a hug. His performance peaks as he coaxes the lions to run around the circus ring on his command, while the crowd - full of children and parents - roar with applause. Later a cracking of the whip can be heard, before two tigers -one white - start jumping on their hind legs across the circus ring floor. But experts say the big cats are "trained" with whips so that they fear the trainer, conditioning them to perform unnatural behaviours to avoid punishment. Emily Wilson, FOUR PAWS UK Head of Campaigns said: 'To carry out tricks and displays for audiences, these animals undergo cruel training practices often based on dominance, fear and punishment. 'Whips are cracked to generate fear in the animal causing them to rear up on their hind legs and walk unnaturally, or having furniture pushed onto them to taunt the animal to elicit an aggressive response. This is not entertainment." Chris Lewis, Captivity Research & Policy Manager at Born Free, said the whip is 'used to coerce the big cats in desired ways through fear and punishment'. He explained: "The behaviour of the big cats (ears back, wide eyes, wincing) all indicate a fear of the items used by the trainers. The hunched shoulders of the lion indicate an anticipation of conflict. Similarly, the tigers can be witnessed flinching when in close contact with the trainer and the whip or prod. Such chronic stress can result in short and long-term psychological trauma. The environment in which they are forced to perform (bright lights, loud music, surrounded by unfamiliar people) could magnify such stress.' Born in Sunderland, his father Martin Sr, was a zookeeper who taught himself to train lions and went on to present big cats in Gerry Cottle's Circus before founding his own Circus Harlequin and Great British Circus. Billed as 'The Man Fear Forgot', he also trained the tigers in the Esso adverts and was a regular animals presenter on educational TV show Magpie. Martin's mother Susan, presented tigers around the world and won a Silver Clown in Monte Carlo in 2005. Family photos show dad with his arm in a lion's jaws, mum riding polar bears, and the children posing with elephants. After boarding school and as the circus industry dwindled in the UK - eventually seeing a ban on wild animal use in 2020 - Martin Jr and his brother Alex moved abroad to continue the family trade. In Germany he married Jana Mandana Lacey-Krone, part of a historic circus family which dates back to 1905. She also featured in the show the Mirror watched performing on selection of white and black horses. In 2019 Martin won the circus' highest award, the Clown d'Or or Gold Clown, for an act featuring 23 lions and three tigers. But his act does not come without danger. Just last month a circus performer in Egypt had his arm amputated after a white tiger bit his hand when it put it through the bars. All the big cats in Martin Jr's performance have been bred in captivity by his family over the last 50 years including a rare white tiger. Experts say in the wild, the odds of a white tiger cub being born is one in every 12,000 births. WWF says 29 in every 30 born will be blind, deaf, or suffering from epilepsy, scoliosis, and a myriad of other defects. Most are euthanised or sold into the pet trade or to roadside zoos. More than 150 wild animals still perform in some 75 circuses in Germany. Nearly half are big cats. A report conducted by Animal Advocacy and Protection (AAP), found at least 89% of the exotic animals they rescued from European circuses suffered from mental or physical trauma. The family also runs Krone Farm in Wessling, Bavaria, home to retired circus animals and opened to the public in 2020. Here we witnessed Alex Lacey perform a big cat training session which ended with a tiger feeding encounter. Children lined up to feed a chuck of meat on the end of a stick to two caged tigers for five Euros each. Peter Hoffken, from PETA Germany, who has been campaigning for an animal circus ban, said the family were 'squeezing every last Euro out of these magnificent animals.' He said these animals will continue to suffer without a ban on exotic animals in circuses. Chris Lewis, Captivity Research & Policy Manager at Born Free added: 'In the wild, the median annual home range is 214km2 for lions and 87km2 for tigers, with daily travel distances of 11km (lions) and 8km (tigers). This highlights the stark difference between circus life and the wild. Health issues are likely exacerbated by a life which restricts freedom of movement or exercise due to small cages and constant feeding to reward tricks and behavioural performances.' He added: 'Circus training methods are frequently based on dominance and fear. The trainer is at constant risk of being injured or attacked if an animal challenges their dominance as evidenced by numerous incidents in circuses around the world over the years. 'Circuses do not promote, nor benefit, conservation or meaningful education of visitors. The behaviours they are forced to perform are often unnatural in nature and would not be displayed by big cats in the wild, therefore the performance is nothing more than entertainment with the big cats, even in retirement, exploited as a commodity. HIS RESPONSE: Comparing himself to the Last of the Mohicans, Martin Jr Lacey rubbished the claims against him and said: 'I love my animals, like you love your children. They have a great and happy life. We are professional.' He explained how he left England 'because of all these lies' and after 'being threatened by animal rights groups' since he was a child. He added: 'The British public have been lied to that we are animal abusers. They have killed the circus because there are no more animal trainers in England. ' When questioned if they were living their best lives, he replied: 'Absolutely. They have first rate health care…they have the best meat….and we have a family of animals which are not inbred. We can go on for the next 20 years with no inbreeding, different bloodlines. We don't inbreed our animals. "My family has always been careful about breeding because we want healthy, intelligent animals. I've been 25 years in Germany, which has strict controls. Every single week we are visited by vets. I'm not being told by some animal rights group that I am wrong in what I do.' Martin Jr referenced a 1990 report funded partly by the RSPCA by Dr Marthe Kiley-Worthington, who said 'circuses were, by their nature, not cruel' and his own scientific study comparing his lions, some in a Swiss zoo and those living in the wild in Africa. He said it found that 'my lions were more active.' When questioned about the use of the whip he said: 'The animals are absolutely not scared at all of the signal stock' and that he had travelled to China and Russia to advise them on welfare standards. He also said stress tests showed the animals were not impacted when travelling between towns when Circus Krone on tour. He said the claims about his big cats not being able to freely roam like they would in the wild, were also rubbish, adding: 'There's not one lion that walks left and right with boredom" within his group. 'They're far better off than any animal in these welfare group homes [sanctuaries]" adding he "would love to do a documentary about how my animals compare.," he added.
Forbes
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Becoming Led Zeppelin' Rental Price Drops Big On Digital Streaming
English rock group Led Zeppelin posed sitting on car bonnet during their first photo shoot for WEA ... More records in London in December 1968. L-R John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Bonham. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns) The rock documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin — featuring Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham — is now available to rent for significantly less on digital streaming. Directed by Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, Becoming Led Zeppelin opened on IMAX screens on Feb. 7 and expanded to regular theaters on Feb. 14. The official summary for the documentary reads, 'Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.' Becoming Led Zeppelin arrived on digital streaming via premium video on demand on April 4 for $24.99 to purchase and $19.99 to rent for a 48-hour period. As of Tuesday, however, viewers for rent Becoming Led Zeppelin on PVOD for $5.99 for 48 hours. The film also has a reduced digital purchase price of $19.99. Becoming Led Zeppelin is available to rent or purchase on a variety of digital platforms, including AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Prime Video and Spectrum. Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham formed Led Zeppelin in 1968 and the band, of course, went on to record such hard rock classics as 'The Immigrant Song,' 'Whole Lotta Love,' 'Black Dog,' 'Houses of the Holy,' 'Kashmir' and 'Stairway to Heaven.' However, since Becoming Led Zeppelin was about more than the music, directors Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty — while having access to Plant, Page and Jones — had their work cut out for them when it came to finding interviews with Bonham, who died tragically at age 32 in 1980. MacMahon told Vulture in a February interview that the filmmaker searched endlessly for archived interviews with Bonham. And while some interviews with the drummer were unearthed on tape but unusable because they were copied over several times, the director told Vulture that their search eventually led to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. After an extensive search, the NFSA discovered about 90 minutes of unheard Bonham interviews from Australian radio station Sydney 2SM circa 1971. 'He was always commenting on useful things that the rest of his bandmates hadn't talked about," MacMahon told Vulture. "He was the one who talked about how nobody wanted to book the band in their home country. 'And at the end of the film, he lets the viewer know that they barely know each other,' MacMahon added. "He says, 'I'm just getting to know them. I like John, Jimmy is really shy, and I know Robert a bit better.' These are relative strangers to each other even by the end of their first year. It's all about the music.' Becoming Led Zeppelin is available to rent on PVOD for $5.99 starting Tuesday and has a purchase price of $19.99.
Sydney Morning Herald
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Even this modern maestro won't touch the world's weirdest instrument
Uncanny, spooky, weird. The theremin is a musical instrument with baggage. Depending on your vintage, it's the aliens landing in The Day The Earth Stood Still or the haunting waltz of Midsomer Murders. It's the whiplash shriek in the crazy breakdown of Whole Lotta Love, Miss Huang's instrument of choice during the camping trip in Severance or the trippy wobble in Good Vibrations. The fact that that last example isn't actually theremin but a soundalike synthesiser only illustrates how entrenched the high-pitched, wide-vibrato, 'woo-ooo' sound has become as a signifier of weirdness: a go-to vibe for the modern composer's quantum leap to Far Out. None of this applied, mind you, to seven-year-old Carolina Eyck, studying classical violin and piano in East Germany in the '90s. The theremin in the loungeroom was just another gizmo Dad acquired for his synth band, shelved on the grounds of difficulty. 'You need to practise,' she says with impish understatement. With its sci-fi antennae bristling left and right, Russian physicist Leon Theremin's novel invention of 1919 remains the only musical instrument you play without touching anything. 'Aerial fingering' was the technique devised by the inventor's original Lithuanian prodigy, Clara Rockmore, in the 1930s. At the age of 16, Eyck revolutionised that method and in her 20s, she literally wrote the modern manual: The Art of Playing the Theremin. Today, widely considered the instrument's most accomplished virtuoso, she's practised in explaining its mysteries. 'I came up with the eight finger positions,' she says, snapping shapes at shoulder height with her right hand. 'A closed hand is a basic note, and then open hand is the octave …' She plays the scale as if making shadow puppets in thin air. 'In my new book that I'm releasing, hopefully soon, I expanded the whole system into 40 positions. It sounds a lot,' she says with a laugh, 'but it just makes so much sense.' Eyck agrees that the sight of a human body manipulating invisible electromagnetic fields adds to the theremin's otherworldly aura. The fact that it sounds like nothing so much as an unhinged soprano – listen again to the original Star Trek theme – adds to the unsettling effect. 'You don't tune it to the A from the piano, but you tune it to your own body and to the surroundings,' she says, citing something called 'body capacitance'. In this way the instrument is unique, 'except for the voice, but that's inside you'. 'With the theremin, you are a part of the instrument because you're within the electromagnetic fields. I like to [say] that the theremin consists of four different parts: the theremin itself … then the electromagnetic fields … then you need a loudspeaker to create a sound, and the fourth part is your body; the player that plays it.' Loading Eyck has heard the theory that the instrument is somehow more attuned to female energies. She was taught by Leon Theremin's grand-niece Lydia Kavina. Notable contemporaries include Austrian sound artist Dorit Chrysler and Iceland's Hekla Magnúsdóttir. 'There is something sensual to it,' she says, 'but there are wonderful male players as well. Like with dance or, really, any musical instrument, you just need a sense of your own body and feeling the music.' In one of her many educational videos online, she comes close to invoking a spiritual dimension to her practice. The meditative stillness required to command the space amounts to 'being in harmony with yourself … It has helped me to become free,' she says. 'On the mental level ... when you study classical music … you have to go through exams; you are constantly judged. You can [get] very nervous on stage,' she says. 'With the theremin, I always experienced that I wasn't part of that. I had my own system. I can invent my own technique. And when I'm on stage, nobody knows what I'm doing … That gave me a lot of freedom mentally. 'Also socially, to connect with people around the world, because there were so few of us. I could go to England, and I would meet friends that I've never met because of that. And then also, while playing, I feel sort of free. Of course I need to hit the notes, but you are in space, and the balance between control and freedom is there. So those three aspects, for me, gave me freedom.' Airborne liberty and retro-futuristic novelty are both playfully invoked in Hovercraft, a new commission by Sydney composer Holly Harrison which will make its world premiere on Eyck's tour with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in May. 'When I'm on stage, nobody knows what I'm doing… That gave me a lot of freedom mentally.' Carolina Eyck 'It's fairly rare, at least in this chamber classical context, to write for theremin at all, so I had to do a fair bit of investigation into how this fascinating instrument works,' Harrison says. 'There's a lot of limitations, but what I found super-fun about this commission was using those limitations to my advantage. 'The key thing is actually to treat it like voice, so I tried to weave in almost quasi-operatic elements ... but when you're writing for someone like Carolina, you're writing for a person, not just the instrument. There's not too many theremin players that have such a strong classical background.' Eyck is delighted with the new addition to what remains a somewhat limited bespoke repertoire. 'For me, it should be either a beautiful melody that I can shape beautifully with my hands, or something that's fun to play,' she says. 'Holly Harrison's piece is both, and I'm so happy about that.' The ACO's Theremin & Beyond program will also feature a piece from Eyck's Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet suite, Oakunar Lynntuja (Strange Birds). Improvised in the studio over her own orchestration, it offers the theremin performer a rare opportunity to break the rule of perfect stillness. 'We're walking into a forest, dark green, and these golden creatures come and fly around us,' she says. 'I'm using effects with it, and I don't have to hit certain pitches, so it's more of a dance, a theatrical performance with the theremin.' As long as none of these imaginary creatures make physical contact there's no cause for alarm. On the fragile instruments scale, Eyck confirms, the theremin is strictly cabin baggage. 'Yeah, for sure. I'm taking three instruments. One is analog, my Moog Etherwave Pro, and then I have a digital one for some extra sounds for Holly's piece, and then I have a small travel theremin, just in case, to feel safe. You never know with theremins.'
