{"id":225,"date":"2008-10-09T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-02-28T01:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T01:49:53","slug":"the-monochrome-set-at-dingwalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-monochrome-set-at-dingwalls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monochrome Set at Dingwalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We managed to blag our way into an invite-only Cherry Red party tonight at Dingwalls in Camden. And there was free beer!<\/p>\n<p>On the bill was JimBob (from Carter USM) and Atilla the Stockbroker, with my old muckers The Monochrome Set (I played on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/release\/1112839\">Dante&#8217;s Casino<\/a> album) returning to play their first gig for a very, very long time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/monochrome-set-01.jpg\" alt=\"Monochrome Set at Dingwalls, London, 8th October 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/monochrome-set-02.jpg\" alt=\"Monochrome Set at Dingwalls, London, 8th October 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/monochrome-set-03.jpg\" alt=\"Monochrome Set at Dingwalls, London, 8th October 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They band were fucking great. I mean, really really good. They sounded fresher, punkier and more aggressive than on record. Bid was pissed and really funny, Lester Square&#8217;s guitar playing was as sharp as ever and the band seemed to have a whole load of fun on stage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a real shame that they&#8217;re unlikely to play again live &#8211; they&#8217;ve just turned down a big festival gig in LA.<\/p>\n<p>But how&#8217;s this for a bizarre twist?: Iggy Pop has done a cover of &#8220;He&#8217;s Frank&#8221; and it appears on the Heroes TV show:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"580\" height=\"356\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vtqcn6pYTrA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We managed to blag our way into an invite-only Cherry Red party tonight at Dingwalls in Camden. And there was free beer! On the bill was JimBob (from Carter USM) &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6382,"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":[196,194,193],"tags":[5,112,1197],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-london-features","category-places","tag-bands","tag-monochrome-set","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/monochrome-set-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}