{"id":5668,"date":"2011-12-23T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T12:40:09","slug":"offline-christmas-party-with-bono-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/offline-christmas-party-with-bono-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Offline Christmas party with Sleighed live &#8211; and the Bono Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; background-color: #545454;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-30.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of smiling faces at the Brixton Albert last night as we put on our Offline Christmas party, and held a\u00a0fiercely\u00a0fought contest to discover Brixton&#8217;s Best Bono.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-03.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The evening marked the\u00a0d\u00e9but\u00a0&#8211; and quite\u00a0possibly\u00a0the final gig &#8211; of Sleighed, who got the crowd singing along to a load of festive singalongs.<\/p>\n<p>It was also my first gig in a very long time, and it was great to get behind the kit again &#8211; even if I was thumping along to Wham and East17!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; background-color: #545454;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-09.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-32.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"419\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A special Bono-o-meter was made for the Bono comp, where members of the audience were invited on stage to try and sing the Bono line from &#8220;Feed The World&#8221; with the most earnestness, sincerity and buttock clenching emotion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-15.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-28.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-16.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-22.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/images\/sleighed-christmas-2011-31.jpg\" alt=\"Thurs 22nd December, a Brixton Christmas Spectacular at the Brixton Offline Club with SLEIGHED and the Bono Contest plus DJs\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The winning Bono in action!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/christmas-special-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">More of the night photos here<\/a> &#8211; and we&#8217;re back tonight for a \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/albert-christmas-party-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hip-Hop\/Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll special with Cable35 and Olos<\/a> &#8211; and it&#8217;s FREE!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of smiling faces at the Brixton Albert last night as we put on our Offline Christmas party, and held a\u00a0fiercely\u00a0fought contest to discover Brixton&#8217;s Best Bono.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7306,"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":[5,1191,293],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-bands","tag-brixton","tag-prince-albert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sleighed-christmas-2011-30.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","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=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5672,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}