Music News - The Monkees are coming to New Zealand
14 June 2016 - 0 Comments
On September 8, 1965, when
producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider placed a classified ad in The
Hollywood Reporter seeking “4 insane boys,” they had no idea that they were
about to unleash Monkee-mania!
But that’s exactly what happened the following year when the first episode of “The Monkees” debuted
on NBC on September 12, 1966.
50 years later and the Monkees
anniversary show is coming to New Zealand. After sell-out North
American shows, and with a brand new album GOOD TIMES! in the charts (top 20 in US
and Australia), Micky and Peter are bringing the Monkees magic
down under.
The Monkees 50th
Anniversary show is a unique concert experience. Times may
change but infectious pop hits and wonderfully charismatic characters stay in
our hearts and memories forever.
Last Train to
Clarksville, Theme from The Monkees, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You,She, Saturday’s Child, Mary, Mary, The Girl I Knew Somewhere, For
Pete’s Sake, Randy Scouse Git, Your Auntie Grizelda, Words, Papa Gene’s
Blues, Porpoise
Song, Do
I Have to Do This All Over Again?, Goin’ Down, Listen to the Band, Shades Of
Grey, Daydream Believer, What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘round, (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,Pleasant Valley Sunday, Circle Sky, I’m a Believer.
When four young men were cast in the television roles of a struggling rock band
inspired by The Beatles’A Hard Day’s Night,
few could have predicted the impact the Monkees
would make on music and pop culture at large, an impact that still reverberates
50 years later.
Assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the
television series The
Monkees, the quartet of Micky
Dolenz, Michael
Nesmith, Peter
Tork, and the late Davy
Jones brought a singular mix of pop, rock, psychedelica,
Broadway, and country to their music. The show itself, meanwhile, paid tribute
not only to The Beatles,
but also to the comedy stylings of The
Marx Brothers and Laurel
and Hardy as well as the pop-art sensibilities of Warhol and the
emerging San Francisco psychedelic scene.
The Monkees’
first single, Last
Train to Clarksville, was released in August 1966, hitting #1
and serving as advance publicity for their series, which debuted on September
12. When the group’s self-titled debut album arrived in stores a month later,
it quickly headed for the top spot of the Billboardcharts, where it would ultimately sit for 13 of the 78 weeks it remained in the
Top 200. (Two decades later, in the midst of a new burst of Monkee-mania, The Monkees popped
back onto the charts, bringing the total number of weeks to 102.)
By the time the group’s TV series aired its final new episode on March 25,
1968, The Monkeeshad seen three further albums top the charts – More Of The Monkees, Headquarters, and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd.,
all of which were released in 1967, staggeringly enough – while racking up
several more hit singles, with I’m
a Believer, (I’m
Not Your) Steppin’ Stone, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, The Girl I Knew Somewhere,Pleasant Valley Sunday,Words,Daydream Believer,Valleriand Tapioca Tundraall finding their way into the BillboardTop 40.
After the series’ two-season run, the group went on to star in the cult feature
film Head(co-written by Jack Nicholson) and a TV special (33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee) while also
continuing to record new material, but much as the ‘60s gave way to the ‘70s,
the members of the Monkees
eventually gave in to their individual musical interests and went their
separate ways… for awhile.
In February 1986, after MTV broadcast a marathon of The Monkees, Dolenz, Jones, and Tork reunited for a 20thanniversary tour, with Nesmith
joining them onstage for the Los Angeles date of the tour, and in 1996, all
four members of the group reunited for a new album (Justus) and TV special
(Hey, Hey, It’s the
Monkees).
In the wake of Jones’s death
on February 29, 2012, the surviving members of the Monkees reunited and
performed a series concerts. The shows were greeted with sell-out response and
phenomenal reviews. Now, Micky
Dolenz and Peter
Tork carry on that tradition with a full evening of magic music
and multi-media splendour, including clips from their Emmy Award winning series.
Their new show features all of the
Monkees hits, plus an intimate acoustic set and solo spots for
each of the singers. This
Evening With The Monkees is sure to please every fan of the
band.
“We’re coming out to New
Zealand and it’s the first time I’ve been back since the 80’s and I can’t
wait!” – Micky
Dolenz.
Tickets for the Monkees
NZ tour go on pre-sale at 9am, Wednesday June 15, with general public on sale
at 9am on Thursday June 16.
Platinum
VIP M&G package includes:
- Meet Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork.
- Photo with Micky and Peter on your own camera or phone.
- Limited edition A3 Thick Card Poster signed by Micky and Peter.
- Admission to Soundcheck featuring fan faves and deep cuts not included in the normal set.
- Monkees guitar pick.
- Official commemorative Monkees VIP Laminate
STRICTLY LIMITED TO 30 ONLY
PER SHOW
Gold VIP package
includes:
- Admission to Soundcheck featuring fan faves and deep cuts not included in the normal set
- Limited edition A3 Thick Card Poster
- Monkees guitar pick
- Official commemorative Monkees VIP Laminate
THE
MONKEES 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2016:
Tuesday November 29 - Isaac
Theatre, Christchurch
Wednesday November 30 - ASB
Theatre, Auckland
Pre-sales - Wednesday June
15, 9am.
General Public tickets on
sale Thursday June 16, 9am.
Tickets from http://tombowler.com.au/tours/the-monkees/
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