{"id":3209,"date":"2011-01-23T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2011-01-23T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:33:38","slug":"drinking-and-stripping-the-willow-at-a-burns-night-ceilidh-in-stockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/drinking-and-stripping-the-willow-at-a-burns-night-ceilidh-in-stockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-01.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a feast of fiddles, banjos, dancing, clapping and, indeed, some falling over to be had last night at the Grosvenor in Stockwell as the No Frills Band put on an early Burns night Ceilidh.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-02.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A ceilidh is a traditional Gaelic social gathering, which usually involves playing Gaelic folk music and dancing and &#8211; \u00a0obviously &#8211; liberal dashings of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-03.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-04.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the more lively dances is called &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strip_the_willow\" target=\"_blank\">Strip the willow<\/a>&#8216; and this involves a lot of spinning around. It was a heap of fun.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-05.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-06.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-07.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the band had finished we were treated to a DJ set of \u00a0massive banging tunes by Mickie Ainsworth and &#8211; och aye! &#8211; Archie McCulloch.\u00a0Awesome!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-08.jpg\" alt=\"Drinking and stripping the willow at a Burns night ceilidh in Stockwell\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a feast of fiddles, banjos, dancing, clapping and, indeed, some falling over to be had last night at the Grosvenor in Stockwell as the No Frills Band put &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6889,"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":[196,193],"tags":[5,1191,213],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-bands","tag-brixton","tag-stockwell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ceilidh-brixton-burns-night-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-PL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}