{"id":8498,"date":"2012-05-21T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2012-05-21T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:15:47","slug":"brixton-get-ready-for-the-mrs-mills-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-get-ready-for-the-mrs-mills-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton! Get ready for the Mrs Mills Experience!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8499\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-get-ready-for-the-mrs-mills-experience\/mrs-mills-experience\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"619,304\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mrs-mills-experience\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8499\" title=\"mrs-mills-experience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton! Get ready for the Mrs Mills Experience!\" width=\"619\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coming up on the 1st June at the Brixton Albert is the world debut of the Mrs Mills Experience &#8211; a band so hot that they secured a Saturday night slot at a big festival without even recording a demo!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrsmills.org\/images\/mrs-mills-band.jpg\" alt=\"Mrs Mills Experience\" width=\"620\" height=\"334\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have to declare an interest here as I&#8217;m in the band (!), but so far the interest in Mrs Mills has been enormous &#8211; it seems that we&#8217;re not the only one feeling the love for the piano thumper extraordinaire, Mrs Gladys Mills. There&#8217;s even talk of us appearing in a TV special!<\/p>\n<p>Our debut gig will be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/offline\/mrs-mills-atomic-suplex-june-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Offline Club in Brixton on June 1st<\/a>, defying all logic and choosing garage noise exponents \u00a0and our best chums Atomic Suplex to be \u00a0co-headliners. Accompanying us on selected songs onstage will be an army of ukulele players from the Dulwich Ukulele Club.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is a date on the river with the band taking over the Tamesis Dock boat on the River Thames on Thurs 21st June, with all-girl go-go troupe The Actionettes providing the moves in a nautical themed evening of entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the band will be bringing the full Mrs Mills honky-tonk pub piano thunder to a packed dancefloor at Brixton&#8217;s legendary dance venue, The Dogstar on Saturday 30th June.<\/p>\n<p>Clubbers will be treated to the unexpected spectacle of the Mrs Mills Experience in full flight, performing in the middle of a packed dance floor at midnight, complete with tap dancer, party hats and streamers.<\/p>\n<p>Several other surprise appearances with mystery guests are planned at similarly unusual venues before we take to the stage for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagefestival.co.uk\/arenas\/the-leisure-lounge-60s\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday night slot at this year&#8217;s Vintage Festival in Northamptonshire<\/a>, a 20,000 capacity event curated by fashion designer Wayne Hemingway.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this crazy\u00a0adventure\u00a0here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrsmills.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Mrs Mills\u00a0Experience<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MrsMillsExperience\" target=\"_blank\">check out our Facebook page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up on the 1st June at the Brixton Albert is the world debut of the Mrs Mills Experience &#8211; a band so hot that they secured a Saturday night &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,196,54,43,193],"tags":[5,1191],"class_list":["post-8498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-nightlife","category-festivals","category-music","category-places","tag-bands","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/mrs-mills-experience.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2d4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498","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=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}