{"id":156,"date":"2007-11-20T22:54:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/11\/20\/the_month_of_gigs\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T22:54:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:54:41","slug":"the_month_of_gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/11\/20\/the_month_of_gigs\/","title":{"rendered":"The month of gigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/alifire.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/alifire.html','popup','width=800,height=476,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/alifire-thumb-200x119.jpg\" alt=\"alifire.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"119\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this month for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>On a Sunday evening at the start of the month, Iron and Wine played here in Reading.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t resist popping along, and although they&#8217;re not one of my favourites, the chance of watching a good band in my home town was too much to resist.&nbsp; Reading used to have a good live music venue, but it closed a couple of years ago, and good gigs have been hard to come by ever since.&nbsp; Iron and Wine didn&#8217;t disappoint either, which was a good job because I was fit to drop!<\/p>\n<p>Last night was an even brighter highlight due to the arrival of The Arcade Fire at Alexandra Palace.&nbsp; They were awesome!&nbsp; The set list was fantastic, ranging from their earlier tracks right up to recent compositions, and the free-ranging version of Power Out had me and Andy Freeman jumping around all over the place.&nbsp; Awesome.&nbsp; The evening had a more colourful end than either of us would have wished with some rather intriguing Londoners on a bus, but I&#8217;ll spare you the gory details&nbsp;&nbsp; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And the month of gigs is not yet finished!&nbsp; Interpol are also playing at Ali Pali on the last Friday of the month.&nbsp; I&#8217;m feeling spoiled with aural delight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking forward to this month for quite some time. On a Sunday evening at the start of the month, Iron and Wine played here in Reading.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t resist popping along, and although they&#8217;re not one of my favourites, the chance of watching a good band in my home town was too much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/11\/20\/the_month_of_gigs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The month of gigs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}