{"id":846,"date":"2004-03-27T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2010-05-05T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:32:55","slug":"846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/846\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip\u2026.north of the river with the Actionettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Being a dyed in the wool Brixtonite, I always feel mighty uncomfortable when I&#8217;m asked to venture north of the river, but tonight I made an extra big effort to haul my south London-loving arse up to the bleak northern territories of Stoke Newington (heck the place hasn&#8217;t even got a tube station!!!)<\/p>\n<p>After preparing myself for the journey with a comforting pint or two in the Albert, I embarked on the journey to Green Lanes, Stoke Newington to a lesbian bar\/club called, &#8216;Lower the Tone&#8217; in The Oak Bar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/26_03_04_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lower the Tone at The Oak Bar, Stoke Newington, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been lured up north to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionettes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Actionettes<\/a> perform and &#8211; happily &#8211; it was well worth the journey. They went down a storm with the lively, up-for-it crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/26_03_04_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lower the Tone at The Oak Bar, Stoke Newington, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bar was packed (it was the club&#8217;s second birthday) and although the DJing  perhaps wasn&#8217;t the most <em>discerning<\/em> I&#8217;d ever heard, with such a warm and friendly crowd, it didn&#8217;t really matter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/26_03_04.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Actionettes at The Oak Bar, Stoke Newington, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Actionettes put in a lively set that had the predominantly female crowd a-whooping with joy. An all girl crowd can make quite a noise!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/26_03_04_3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Actionettes at The Oak Bar, Stoke Newington, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stayed for a few beers and a shuffle (&#8220;Mirror Man&#8221;: Human League &#8211; respect!) before contemplating the<\/p>\n<p>expected unspeakable horrors of getting back to base camp Brixton at 1am.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we managed to grab a taxi in minutes and were driven back to the welcoming confines of south London at amber-light-jumping speed, courtesy of an impossibly large Turkish driver.<\/p>\n<p>All things considered, it was a good night. North Londoners &#8211; check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a dyed in the wool Brixtonite, I always feel mighty uncomfortable when I&#8217;m asked to venture north of the river, but tonight I made an extra big effort to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5907,"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":[196,193],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nightlife","category-places","tag-actionettes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/26_03_04_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-846","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}