{"id":53,"date":"2006-11-25T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T16:15:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-11-25T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T16:22:47","slug":"go_west_gig_gala_theatre_24_november_2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/11\/25\/go_west_gig_gala_theatre_24_november_2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Go West Gig, Gala Theatre, 24 November 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><center>JUST TO SAY &#8211; IT WAS CLASS!!<\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>45 mins, then a 20 min break, then 1 hour 10 mins &#8211; 2 encores &#8211; amazing!  7 new songs (I particularly liked <i>Faded<\/i>); a great proportion of the classics (<i>We Close Our Eyes; King of Wishful Thinking; Call Me; S.O.S; Goodbye Girl<\/i> etc, etc.) and two covers  &#8211; <i>The Tracks of My Tears<\/i> (which they&#8217;d previously released)  and U2&#8217;s <i>Vertigo<\/i> &#8211; that was amazing, although I don&#8217;t think the theatre agreed as we could see sawdust falling from the ceiling due to the bass amps!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/myspace-616.vo.llnwd.net\/01242\/61\/64\/1242534616_l.jpg\" alt=\"Go West pic\" title=\"Go West - 21st Anniversary\" \/><\/p>\n<p>21st Anniversary tour &#8211; just as hot as they were back in 1985, even though I&#8217;ve seen them many times &#8211; I had an incredible evening.  I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again &#8211; Peter Cox can wiggle to the music in front of me anytime &#8211; and all the people I went with certainly agree!  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST TO SAY &#8211; IT WAS CLASS!! 45 mins, then a 20 min break, then 1 hour 10 mins &#8211; 2 encores &#8211; amazing! 7 new songs (I particularly liked Faded); a great proportion of the classics (We Close Our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2006\/11\/25\/go_west_gig_gala_theatre_24_november_2006\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}