{"id":137,"date":"2009-03-27T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2009-03-27T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:30:00","slug":"tunng-at-koko-camden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/tunng-at-koko-camden\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunng at Koko, Camden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tunng-koko-2009-01.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We went along to KoKo in Camden tonight to see three members of the Algerian band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinariwen.com\/\">Tinariwen<\/a>, collaborating with twisted pop-folkies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tunng.co.uk\/\">Tunng<\/a> onstage. <\/p>\n<p>It was a great show and it was nice to see the old Camden Palace (or Music Machine if you&#8217;re even older) in such fine condition &#8211; even if the drinks are well pricey.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KOKO_(venue)\" target=\"_blank\">late Victorian theatre<\/a> has been restored beautifully, with the dark red and gold interior looking immaculate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/tunng-koko-2009-02.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Fact: the venue was the last place AC\/DC&#8217;s Bon Scott was seen drinking before his death from alcohol poisoning in 1980<\/p>\n<p>Fact! I played the Camden palace several times with several (failed) bands<\/p>\n<p>Fact! I saw Prince do a secret gig there once. There were wall-to-wall music celebs inside and his gig was quite probably one of the best shows I&#8217;d ever seen. He was amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went along to KoKo in Camden tonight to see three members of the Algerian band Tinariwen, collaborating with twisted pop-folkies Tunng onstage. It was a great show and it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,28],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-camden","tag-gigs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/tunng-koko-2009-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}