{"id":1378,"date":"2010-07-12T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.wordpress.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-07-12T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T19:31:24","slug":"a-gig-in-a-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/a-gig-in-a-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"A gig in a barn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had huge fun at the weekend playing a gig in a barn on a farm outside Reading.<\/p>\n<p>This was no pretend theme-park kind of barn, but a real one with chickens and bales of straw.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing was that we were able to get a great sound.\u00a0 Playing in the open air &#8211; or a marquee &#8211; can sometimes mean the sound tends to disappear into thin air, while playing a boxy space usually means you get feedback and strange sounds in the bass.<\/p>\n<p>A barn turns out to be a happy medium. There&#8217;s enough structure to keep the sound from blowing away, yet we had no feedback or boxy sound issues.<\/p>\n<p>That all worked to make a great two sets gig.<\/p>\n<p>We had a special guest, <a href=\"http:\/\/joethedrummer.com\/\">Joe the Drummer<\/a>, on drums who provided his usual rock solid groove.<\/p>\n<p>And we at last got the chance to play our new ska&#8217;d up version of the Dr Who theme.<\/p>\n<p>So thanks to Charlie for laying on a great gig &#8211; and for feeding us so well (something that doesn&#8217;t always happen!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had huge fun at the weekend playing a gig in a barn on a farm outside Reading. This was no pretend theme-park kind of barn, but a real one <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/a-gig-in-a-barn\/' 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":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gig"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"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=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}