{"id":1388,"date":"2011-04-17T18:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skamonics.co.uk\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-04-17T18:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T18:33:05","slug":"our-name-almost-in-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/our-name-almost-in-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Our name (almost) in lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a terrific gig at the Ritzy last night. It&#8217;s a great place to play as it&#8217;s a smallish room with a good sound system and an engineer who knows how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>And we got a good crowd &#8211; friends of the band, friends of support act the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tootones\" target=\"_blank\">Tootones<\/a> (great set, guys) and quite a few Brixton locals who just fancied an evening of ska.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun to be be able to play two sets too. That means we can vary what we play a lot more and give our soloists a chance to play out a bit more. We were lucky enough to have ace tenor player Dan Berry guesting with us last night as Leah was involved in preparing for her sister&#8217;s wedding. He and Steve made for a fantastic partnership as they play a lot together.<\/p>\n<p>So we had a great time, and the energy most of the audience put into dancing suggests they did too.<\/p>\n<p>The only bad thing about Upstairs at the Ritzy is that it is upstairs &#8211; and carrying amps up three flights of stairs is a bit of a pain.<\/p>\n<p>But if it wasn&#8217;t a big old cinema, then they wouldn&#8217;t be able to our name up outside along with the films. (You can click on these for the full picture.)<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a terrific gig at the Ritzy last night. It&#8217;s a great place to play as it&#8217;s a smallish room with a good sound system and an engineer who <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/17\/our-name-almost-in-lights\/' 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":[9,14,19],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gig","category-pictures","category-ritzy","tag-ritzy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"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=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}