{"id":803,"date":"2004-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2017-02-17T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T19:51:07","slug":"803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/803\/","title":{"rendered":"Heist at the Spitz Club in Liverpool Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a dull day fiddling about with tedious computer\/site admin stuff, it was a relief to get out for a few beers in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitz.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spitz Club<\/a> in Liverpool Street (East London) for the launch party of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.super8recordings.com\/heist.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Heist&#8217;s<\/a> new album.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/spitz1.jpg\" alt=\"Heist at the Spitz Club, Liverpool Street, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I like the band. Featuring a boy\/girl eclectic line up of guitars, violins, trumpets, keyboards and drums they make a lush, cinematic sound that is best summed up as Pulp-meets-Scott Walker, mixed up with a bit of new wave and the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Or something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/spitz.jpg\" alt=\"Actionettes at the Spitz Club, Liverpool Street, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Supporting the band were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionettes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Actionettes<\/a>, who put in a lively set of 60s moves in the sweltering club (when will they sort out decent air conditioning in the Spitz?).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I tried my new Minolta A2 camera again after my first, less-than-successful attempt to use it for band photos.<\/p>\n<p>This time I switched to manual focusing and spot metering and had far better results &#8211; and the little black and white movie I shot came out very well(sorry &#8211; I can&#8217;t post it here because of bandwidth problems).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/spitz2.jpg\" alt=\"cab home from the Spitz Club, Liverpool Street, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, we managed to get a cab straight back to Brixton at the end of the night. Maybe it&#8217;s only on weekends that some cabbies turn into south London-allergic arseholes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a dull day fiddling about with tedious computer\/site admin stuff, it was a relief to get out for a few beers in the evening. 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