{"id":876,"date":"2004-02-15T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2010-10-11T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:58:56","slug":"876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/876\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff trip (part two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff trip (part two)<\/strong><br \/>\nThere was a total of eight bands playing that night and I can&#8217;t say any of them particularly floated my boat: almost all of them sounded like they wanted to be The Strokes!<\/p>\n<p>None, however, could match Black Wire for their <em>rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll<\/em> strutting. Stick-thin and dressed in de rigeur black, there was no doubting that they meant it maaan.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble was, the lack of a real drummer seriously undermined their rock credentials (drum machines are for disco boys, no?) and apart from one interesting &#8216;Roxy Music&#8217; their music rapidly became very formulaic.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, the singer had an unpleasant habit of going completely bonkers at the end of each song, squawking like a demented cocker spaniel.<\/p>\n<p>Several of us took this ear-splitting hysterics as our cue for the bar, where we stayed for the remainder of their set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff trip (part two) There was a total of eight bands playing that night and I can&#8217;t say any of them particularly floated my boat: almost all of them sounded &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-876","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}