{"id":5639,"date":"2011-12-20T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T14:19:54","slug":"brixton-thurs-22nd-dec-join-a-bobsleigh-of-brixton-bonos-and-compete-for-crap-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-thurs-22nd-dec-join-a-bobsleigh-of-brixton-bonos-and-compete-for-crap-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton Thurs 22nd Dec: Join a BOBSLEIGH OF BRIXTON BONOs and compete for crap prizes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/brixton-bono-sleigh-bells.jpg\" alt=\"Offline at the Brixton Albert London SW9 Thurs 22nd Dec 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"389\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a night of festive fun lined up for the Brixton Albert this Thursday with a 7pm pub quiz followed by the debut live performance of SLEIGHED leading a mass\u00a0sing-along\u00a0of Christmas pop\u00a0classics.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the contest to find BRIXTON&#8217;S BEST BONO which will feature an EARNEST-O-METER and festive baubles. Read on for the details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/stella-baubles-brixtonx.jpg\" alt=\"Offline at the Brixton Albert London SW9 Thurs 22nd Dec 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"347\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The BONO COMPETITION details!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Can you OUT-BONO BONO? Join a BOBSLEIGH OF BRIXTON BONOs and compete for PRIZES!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Christmas time, and there&#8217;s some need to be afraid as the Offline Club will be hosting a competition to find out BRIXTON&#8217;S BEST BONO.<\/p>\n<p>The contest will be held at the end of a rousing festive singalong set from Brixton superstar group SLEIGHED, and contestants will be invited on stage to deliver Bono&#8217;s legendary line from the Band Aid single, &#8216;Feed The World&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;WELL, TONIGHT, THANK GOD IT&#8217;S THEM, INSTEAD OF YOU.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Points will be awarded for buttock-clenching sincerity and world-changing levels of earnestness, with bonus points for global-warming torrents of heartfelt emotion and millionaire smugness.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be awarded a bucket of prizes, with all the Brixton Bonos assembling onstage to join in one last chorus &#8211; an event that will surely result in the planet becoming a better place for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurs 22nd Dec 2011<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pub quiz 7pm, band onstage 10.30pm, Bono comp 11pm.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Albert<br \/>\n418 Coldharbour Lane<br \/>\nBrixton London SW9 8LF<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/christmas-special-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/xmas-bono-comp-2011x.gif\" alt=\"Offline at the Brixton Albert London SW9 Thurs 22nd Dec 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a night of festive fun lined up for the Brixton Albert this Thursday with a 7pm pub quiz followed by the debut live performance of SLEIGHED leading a mass\u00a0sing-along\u00a0of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7302,"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":[3,196,193],"tags":[1191,4,293],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-offline","tag-prince-albert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-bono-sleigh-bells.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1sX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}