Shonen Knife


Interviews


Interview (2011)

Shonen Knife - Interview

Jamie Rowland speaks to Naoko Yamano, the guitarist/vocalist and founding member Naoko Yamano with Japanese punks about their thirty years together, and the effect of the Ramones on their work


Live

Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 30/4/2014

Shonen Knife - Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 30/4/2014

Nicky Crewe misses most of Shonen Knife's gig at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester due to their late stage arrival, but feels that it was better to have seen some of the Tokyo all girl punk trio's set rather than nothing at all


Musician, Leicester, 7/9/2012

Shonen Knife - Musician, Leicester, 7/9/2012

...while in Leicester at The Musician Anthony Strutt sets the group play an equally remarkable set of their own material under their own name


Babylon, Ottawa, 11/3/2005

Shonen Knife - Babylon, Ottawa, 11/3/2005

Japanese pop punkers Shonen Knife will celebrate their quarter-century anniversary next year. At a long awaited Ottawa show, Andrew Carver watches them play a warmly received set to a very mixed crowd


Photography

Photoscapes (2023)

Shonen Knife - Photoscapes

Rob Hadley photographs Japanese pop-punk trio Shonen Knife at a gig on their 40th Anniversary Tour at The Hare and Hounds in Birmingham.


Reviews


Adventure (2016)
Shonen Knife - Adventure

Enjoyable and entertaining latest album from Japanese garage rock trio, Shonen Knife


Pop Tune (2012)
Shonen Knife - Pop Tune

Fantastic harmonic punk pop on eighteenth album from Japanese band, Shonen Knife


Free Time (2011)
Shonen Knife - Free Time

Excellent fifteenth album from punk-influenced Japanese trio and Kurt Cobain's favourite act, Shonen Knife


Super Group (2010)
Shonen Knife - Super Group

Excellent return to form on sixteenth album from Japanese veteran punk/grunge rockers Shonen Knife, who have included Kurt Cobain among their fans


Related


Live

Osaka Ramones
Cargo, London, 1/10/2012 Osaka Ramones - Cargo, London, 1/10/2012

Dan Cressey at Cargo on London watches Japanese all female punk trio Shonen Knife under the moniker of the Osaka Ramones play an incredible set of Ramones covers...