{"id":598,"date":"2015-03-20T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/?p=598"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:18:14","slug":"the-ballad-of-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/the-ballad-of-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Stranglers<\/strong> Birmingham O2 Academy \u2013 14th March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Gig Review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ballad of Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we had done so before\u2026<br \/>\nSo, we did once more.<br \/>\nThe family gathered from far and from near.<br \/>\nTo see the Men in Black and lend them our ear.<\/p>\n<p>A dark waltz heralded their arrival on stage<br \/>\nAs if a wild beast had been freed from a cage<br \/>\nThe crowd went wild with appreciation<br \/>\nVenting their pent up adulation<\/p>\n<p>Longships gave to Raven and then Straigthen Out<br \/>\nBaz shot a grin and JJ a pout.<br \/>\nA full house did rock and also did rave<br \/>\nThe majestic four horsemen was sung us by Dave<\/p>\n<p>We anticipated yet<br \/>\nThe arrival of Jet<br \/>\nThe appearance of him<br \/>\nFollowed the exit of Jim<\/p>\n<p>The Master delivered to all and to one<br \/>\nBaroque Bordello, Golden Brown and Always The Sun<br \/>\nFinishing with a flourish of thrills, fills and licks<br \/>\nThe boys delivered the beauteous strains of Genetix<\/p>\n<p>Jet left and Jim did join us once more<br \/>\nAnd proceeded to pummel his kit through the floor<br \/>\nSwirling Keys, biting Tele and Growling Bass<br \/>\nLit up the smile on everyone\u2019s face<\/p>\n<p>Then all was quiet but for the ears a-ring<br \/>\nAs they gathered and posed sweaty faces a-grin<br \/>\nAll too soon it was over and off we were led<br \/>\nTo the pub, then for Curry, then off home to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stranglers Birmingham O2 Academy \u2013 14th March 2015. Gig Review. The Ballad of Birmingham As we had done so before\u2026 So, we did once more. The family gathered from far and from near. To see the Men in Black and lend them our ear. A dark waltz heralded their arrival on stage As if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/the-ballad-of-birmingham\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ballad of Birmingham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-archive","category-eitcs-views-and-reviews-on-music-and-maybe-life-in-general-from-time-to-time","category-fansinblack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eitc.elvisintheclouds.co.uk\/eitc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}