Japanese Breakfast Tickets
Overall Rating
4.4
By J Money
Concert Great… audience not so much
The Fillmore Philadelphia - Philadelphia
The Japanese Breakfast concert was great. We paid extra for VIP but stood next to incredibly rude people who yacked loudly through the entire show. What is the protocol for dealing with this? We politely asked them to go to the bar because they were loud but they refused. They acted like we were the rude people when we just wanted to enjoy the music but they wouldn’t stop talking/shouting to hear each other above the music. After the show they verbally confronted us on our way out and “rationalized” that they paid the same amount to be there. Not sure if that meant that they had every right to be obnoxious? Sounds like they confused a concert ticket for a cover charge at a bar. I feel like the Filmore should be responsible for keeping their guests’ noise levels to a reasonable level. Perhaps they could patrol a little. It almost got ugly but we walked away. It left a really bad taste. Especially since we paid more to be out of the crowd.
By breakfast fan 1
LOUSY OPENING
The Fillmore Philadelphia - Philadelphia
our headliner was excellent, fun and the lyrics sounded great. all in costume for Halloween night too. the opening act we THOUGHT was coming canceled, and we were not updated beforehand in any way... and the replacement band was AWFUL. I would have arrived late just to muss that. also the warm up comedian was equally terrible. not funny, raunchy, gross and demeaning to the audience.
By DN
Japanese Breakfast - 10/5/23 @ RCMH
Radio City Music Hall - New York
The performance was very good. This was my first time watching this artist and she was kicked butt!! Way to go!!!
By Mosquito002
Amazing Experience!
Radio City Music Hall - New York
I have been following the band for a couple years now and was so glad I got to see them live. Michelle and the entire band brought an amazing energy to the show and it was an exceptional concert. Would highly recommend seeing them! Can't wait for their next album and tour!
By Bubba Wu
Another great show!
Radio City Music Hall - New York
great show great venue great city great staff overall greatness
By Eli
such an amazing show
Radio City Music Hall - New York
this show was truly life changing. what an amazing experience!! thank you so much japanese breakfast and ichiko aoba for a beautiful show!!
By CLou
Rockin Set by Japanese Breakfast!
Great performance by Japanese Breakfast! It was great to share the experience with my daughter as we both enjoy her music. The other artists also had solid sets, especially Yo La Tengo.
By Donna
So Three Years Ago
Ever since her super concert at Thalia Hall, I’ve been enjoying JB on her 3rd CD. I even read her book. The words to her songs are powerful, modern, refreshing, deep. But ever since then, there is No New Music. Apparently Japanese Breakfast has hit a dry spell creatively speaking and are good at raking in bucks in the meanwhile. Which brings me to the venue which is one slick operation. I arrived by walking from the Clybourn Metra Station so I cannot comment on parking. It looked busy but organized outside the gates. Inside you have your bars and the merch area. The stage is elevated very high and show-goers are crowded into the general admission floor area for $78 a head. Those who have seats are in a horseshoe-shaped seating around the floor, with the most expensive seats way at the back of the space—notice I can’t call it an “auditorium”—even behind the sound booth. Sorry folks! Lousy stage lighting and sound equipment. The space has decent acoustics but the sound coming through is three years old, on poor quality equipment, and not quite so exciting as it was three years ago even with the dumb smoke softly billowing from the stage. I’m glad The Salt Shed at least has basic acoustics and is a very slick operation as a new venue at an affordable price…if you want to be herded like an animal into a big barn, errr “shed”.
By Campbell
An Evening with J Brekkie
Michelle and co. have a great stage presence and aren’t afraid to jam out for an elongated outro. This exceeded any expectation I had for their live show.
By JLee
Michelle is amazing
The show at the Salt Shed was similar to their performance at Pitchfork last year but they were on their game and it was an amazing show. My only complaint is about the venue itself. Overall, they did a great job renovating and turning the factory into a gorgeous event space. The staff was helpful and it was easy to navigate the food trucks, bar, stores... but I will never understand why they would build a new venue focused on live entertainment that doesn't solve for poor views from the floor. We were fairly close (closer than half way to the stage) and it was near impossible to see. A sloped floor and a higher stage would immediately solve this issue and provide a better experience for everyone.
Bio
Japanese Breakfast In Concert
Japanese Breakfast was never meant to be a full-time musical project, but Michelle Zauner's fuzzy, dreamy indie pop has captured too many ears and hearts to call it quits. Instead, the Eugene, Oregon-based artist continues to push her solo project into new sonic territory while taking it to stages around the world.
The first thing to know: Zauner is not Japanese. In creating her moniker, she's stated that she wanted to combine something very American (breakfast) with something Americans find exotic (Japanese). She was actually born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Eugene, where she started learning the piano at 5 years old and the guitar at 15.
She then headed to Pennsylvania to study creative writing and film at Bryn Mawr College. It was here that she began turning her musical interests into reality with a solo project called Little Girl, Big Spoon and, in 2011, as frontwoman for the emo band Little Big League.
But already by 2013, Zauner felt creatively uninspired. So, along with friend Rachel Gagliardi, she decided to write, record, and post one song every day for the month of June onto a blog. The result was the 30-track June, featuring 28 originals and two covers (PAWS' "Sore Tummy" and Liz Phair's "Chopsticks").
Around this same time, she put Little Big League on hold and moved back to Oregon to help care for her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer. In her home state, she found comfort in music, particularly after her mother passed away in 2014. She began writing what would become her lo-fi debut album, Psychopomp. It officially released in April 2016 on Yellow K Records. Soon after, she was signed to indie label Dead Oceans and set out on tour around the U.S., U.K., and Canada.
A little more than a year later, she returned with her sophomore album, Soft Sounds from Another Planet, a more expansive set featuring spacey electronics and crisper indie pop, all topped with Zauner's melancholic beauty. Following the release, she set out for a lengthy world tour, including stops at big festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo.