{"id":873,"date":"2012-08-27T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/?p=873"},"modified":"2012-08-27T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:05:31","slug":"a-gig-in-a-tipi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/a-gig-in-a-tipi\/","title":{"rendered":"A gig in a tipi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or is it teepee?<\/p>\n<p>We had a terrible journey to what turned out to be a great gig near Dorchester in Dorset.<\/p>\n<p>It was lucky that we had all set out in good time, as a combination of torrential rain, and endless bank holiday traffic hold ups meant that it wook hours longed than we expected to get there.<\/p>\n<p>However once we were there it quickly became an immensely enjoyable evening.<\/p>\n<p>The reception was in a giant tent constructed from two tipis. We had enough time to set our equipment up and sound-check.<\/p>\n<p>We were also able to provide our PA for the wedding speeches and to use for the first dance and disco parts of the evening &#8211; courtesy of the groom&#8217;s ipod.<\/p>\n<p>Most exciting for us was the debut of Nick&#8217;s new blue<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbone.co.uk\/\"> plastic trombone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Astonishingly it sounds pretty indistinguishable from a traditional brass instrument. But it&#8217;s a shame you can&#8217;t get them in a 2-tone black and white check pattern.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nick-Dorset-25-Aug-2012-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" title=\"Nick's Pbone 1\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nick-Dorset-25-Aug-2012-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nick-Dorset-25-Aug-2012-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" title=\"Nick's Pbone 2\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nick-Dorset-25-Aug-2012-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This is what we played. One highlight was one of the guests proving to be an accomplished rapper to Skaravan. Whether Duke Ellington would have approved is another matter &#8230;<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"215\">First set<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"246\">Second set<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"215\">Guns of Navarone<\/p>\n<p>Latin goes ska<\/p>\n<p>Double barrel<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re wondering now<\/p>\n<p>Mood for love<\/p>\n<p>Alley cat ska<\/p>\n<p>Fly me to the moon<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t get you out of my head<\/p>\n<p>Enola gay<\/p>\n<p>Price tag<\/p>\n<p>Tequila<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"246\">James bond<\/p>\n<p>Misirlou<\/p>\n<p>Skaravan<\/p>\n<p>Ten out of ten<\/p>\n<p>99 red balloons<\/p>\n<p>Tainted love Rudy a message to you<\/p>\n<p>My boy lollipop<\/p>\n<p>Baggy trousers<\/p>\n<p>Israelites<\/p>\n<p>Night boat to Cairo<\/p>\n<p>Gangsters (vocal)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or is it teepee? We had a terrible journey to what turned out to be a great gig near Dorchester in Dorset. It was lucky that we had all <a href='https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/a-gig-in-a-tipi\/' 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":[9,20,27],"tags":[47,81,100],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gig","category-setlist","category-wedding","tag-dorset","tag-pbone","tag-wedding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skamonics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}