{"id":1373,"date":"2010-01-09T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.wordpress.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-01-09T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T14:55:28","slug":"fab-gig-at-the-ritzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/09\/fab-gig-at-the-ritzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fab gig at the Ritzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at\u00a0 Brixton&#8217;s Ritzy last night.<\/p>\n<p>This was our first gig using two horns and more vocals than we have usually done at previous gigs.<\/p>\n<p>This meant doing a number of new songs and new versions of old material &#8211; including some vocal versions of songs that we had previously done as instrumentals.<\/p>\n<p>Our ska version of Enola Gay went down particularly well, though it is probably not worth thinking too hard about doing a lively upbeat version of a song about dropping the atom bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was in fine form, even if Veronica was laid a little low and husky by a nasty cold. It at least allowed us to introduce her as being on catarrh and vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Upstairs at the Ritzy is a fine venue (even if all those stairs are a bit tough when you&#8217;re carrying up guitar amps).<\/p>\n<p>It made us realise how many of our songs are film related -at least\u00a0 Guns of Navarone, the James Bond theme and Misirlou.<\/p>\n<p>But best of all &#8211; being a cinema &#8211; they put your name in big letters outside with all the current films.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a not very good quality mobile photo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Our name almost in lights\" src=\"http:\/\/photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-snc3\/hs161.snc3\/18836_270050435855_529460855_4914168_1075182_n.jpg\" alt=\"Ritzy\" width=\"528\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our name almost in lights<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at\u00a0 Brixton&#8217;s Ritzy last night. This was our first gig using two horns and more vocals than we have usually done at previous gigs. This <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/09\/fab-gig-at-the-ritzy\/' 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}