Jett is at once blunt and sly about her own sexuality. Do your thing, play your music.” Jett’s voice rises with emphasis. That’s a fuck of a lot sexier than putting it all out there. But there was a mystique about David Bowie - you think you know, but you’re not sure. “The Stones, guys like that, can be more in-your-face. “I made a point in the Runaways not to play up the sexuality,” Jett says, turning on that stare full-blast. The most sensual thing about Jett, even now, is the commanding gaze of her brown, wide, almond-shape eyes.
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In the Runaways, a band pitched as glam jailbait by late producer-manager Kim Fowley, Jett showed the least skin she was typically seen in red leather or basic black, neck to ankle. Jett is the same age as Madonna but rarely used flirtation or sexual controversy to get noticed. Women all of a sudden become matronly? C’mon, man!” “People look at women differently,” Jett says irritably. Jett was on the road with Heart earlier this year, and her current tour with the Who goes into November. She calls herself “close to vegan” and says of alcohol, “I’ll have an occasional drink, but I don’t drink.“ She mentions other “guitar-playing wear and tear,” including surgeries on her left hand and knee. Jett recently had an operation on her right shoulder. She’s come to this interview - in the living room of Laguna’s Long Island home, a short drive from her own near the ocean - from a physical-therapy session. Now Jett is entering uncharted territory for a woman in her line of aggression: that age when male elders like the Rolling Stones and the Who pass into rugged gravitas. Written by Jett, Laguna and guitarist Dougie Needles, the track is a razor-toothed surge of guitars with a hot chorus from the same pop-smart punk-rock pocket as the records that got Jett, 56, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 18th: the 1981 New Wave anthem “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” her hit covers of Gary Glitter’s “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)” and Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crimson and Clover” Jett’s first solo LP, Bad Reputation and The Runaways, her 1976 debut, at 17, with that pioneering all-teen, all-female Los Angeles band. Jett is making new music today with her longtime band the Blackhearts: the title song to a forthcoming film, Miss You Already, by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. “Keith Richards had some of that,” he announces with a hearty laugh, as Jett rolls her number on the mixing board before the take. She also has “the best shit,” according to Kenny Laguna, Jett’s manager, co-producer and co-songwriter for the past 35 years. The smoking, Jett says later, loosens up the edges and range of her distinctively craggy voice.
And she has a fat, torpedolike joint hanging from her mouth. Her jet-black hair is a riot of feathery spikes. Dressed for rock & roll work in a tight gray jersey, weathered jeans and sneakers, she shakes her arms and bounces on her feet like an impatient boxer.
Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, December 14 th.Joan Jett stands at a microphone in a Manhattan recording studio, almost ready to sing. Supported by Cable Ties and Chiko Molls DJ’s (featuring Amy from Amyl & The Sniffers). Wednesday, January 16th, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts are set to bring their fundamental punk rock lesson in the origins of cool to Melbourne’s iconic Corner Hotel. Now it’s Melbourne’s turn! Yes, it’s really happening. It will be Joan Jett’s first time in Oz since 2010 when she was here for Falls Festival. During that tour she made a one-off appearance at Sydney’s Annandale Hotel - I, for one, was there and can solemnly swear, it was a spiritual hot mess and a sacred experience.
It's an all-star affair and shows are selling out fast. Joining them on the bill are, The Living End, Diesel, Richard Clapton, and Chocolate Starfish.
Melbournians are in for a treat this January with rock ‘n roll archetype, Joan Jett announcing a one-off headline show while she's here for the 2019 Red Hot Summer Festival.Įarlier this year it was announced that Joan Jett & The Blackhearts would be sharing the headlining spot with local god, Jimmy Barnes.
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