{"id":334,"date":"2008-02-10T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2008-02-10T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T16:38:00","slug":"nokia-a-pipeline-of-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/nokia-a-pipeline-of-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia: a pipeline of champagne!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/nokia-launch-01.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia launch party, Regent Street, London W1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, not exactly a pipeline, but there sure was a lot of champagne flowing my way on Thursday as I attended the launch of the Nokia Store on Regent Street, London W1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/nokia-launch-02.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia launch party, Regent Street, London W1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Apple having their own equally shiny and chrome\/glass-laden store opposite, the rivals will be able to take part in staring competitions across the road. Or maybe slug it out in the street if things turn nasty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/nokia-launch-03.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia launch party, Regent Street, London W1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never understood or been interested in the dire <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">schleb<\/span> culture, but it was amusing to see well known musicians like Dizee Rascal and Goldie being hired in to presumably add &#8216;showbiz glamour&#8217; while Z List blonde women flapped around the cameras, almost <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">begging<\/span> to be snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you won&#8217;t hear me complaining when the free champagne is slopping around in such quantities, and I got to meet some interesting folks amongst all the swivel-action suits, PR backslappers and attention seeking pap-clingers. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/nokia-launch-04.jpg\" alt=\"Nokia launch party, Regent Street, London W1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We later retired to a restaurant bar called Cocoon near Piccadilly Circus where the onslaught of champagne continued until, in the words of the fabulous Elbow, &#8220;my speech was just a gas leak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there were no free phones to be had, and I hadn&#8217;t brought my proper camera, so you&#8217;ll have to make do with these super low-res shots from my much loved Palm Treo 650 phone (the onboard camera is not its strong point).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not exactly a pipeline, but there sure was a lot of champagne flowing my way on Thursday as I attended the launch of the Nokia Store on Regent Street, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6276,"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":[10,167],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-london","tag-nokia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nokia-launch-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-5o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}