{"id":1231,"date":"2014-01-08T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:18:25","slug":"skanking-the-hootananny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/08\/skanking-the-hootananny\/","title":{"rendered":"Skanking the Hootananny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday nights in early January are probably not the best nights for attracting a crowd. Add in heavy rain, and we were half expecting to be playing to an empty pub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/2013\/12\/20\/january-gigs\/1462857_679964262034523_1595849265_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1212 alignleft\" alt=\"1462857_679964262034523_1595849265_n\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1462857_679964262034523_1595849265_n.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>It was good therefore to see not just a pretty fair attendance but a full dance floor last night.<\/p>\n<p>We like the Hootananny as it has a good stage and excellent sound, particularly in the hands of our last night&#8217;s engineer Geoff, who has mixed us before.<\/p>\n<p>We also got the chance to play two full sets. And this is what we played:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Chinatown<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Dr Who<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Guns Of Navarone<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Work Song<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Latin Goes Ska<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Johnny Too Bad<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Mood For Love<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Paranoid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">You&#8217;re Wondering Now<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Pata Pata<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Harder They Come<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">10 Out Of 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Alley Cat Ska<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">99 Red Balloons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Man In The Street<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Tainted Love<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Mambo Number 5<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Rudy A Message To You<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Tide Is High<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">My Boy Lollipop<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Enola Gay<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\">Gangsters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"234\">Price Tag<\/td>\n<td valign=\"bottom\" width=\"265\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It went down well, and we hope to be asked back. Promoter Cecil Reuben knows his ska, and liked what we played.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t take any pictures but is anyone in the audience did we&#8217;d love to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday nights in early January are probably not the best nights for attracting a crowd. Add in heavy rain, and we were half expecting to be playing to an empty <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/08\/skanking-the-hootananny\/' title='read more!'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,89],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gig","tag-hootananny","tag-set-list"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}