{"id":518,"date":"2006-10-23T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-10-23T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:22:00","slug":"bands-castles-and-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bands-castles-and-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands, castles and beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday we checked out the excellent Kings Cross Hot Club<\/a> at the venerable 100 Club on Oxford Street.<\/p>\n

Offering a mix of “duelling acoustic guitars and violin, ragtime syncopation and vintage, New Orleans-style improvising,” they sounded great, and we’re hoping to get them down to play an Offline soon.<\/p>\n


Talking of which, Offline at the Albert<\/a> turned out to be another fun night.
I got to play a heap of ska, rude boy, punk and 40s big band, everyone got drunk, and we all danced at the end. A perfect Friday night.<\/p>\n

Saturday we headed south-east to the mighty impressive Dover Castle (photos soon!) and then off to a party at the Albert and then on to the always-excellent PROD at the Canterbury Arms, Brixton.<\/p>\n

Today, I shook off the mo’fo’ hangover and braved the relentless rain to visit the British Museum and scoop up a load of vintage rock’n’roll tunes from Fopp.<\/p>\n

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Coming up later this week on Thursday night there’s another Offline at JAMM<\/a>, and there’s some great bands lined up. Come along – it’s FREE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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