{"id":56,"date":"2007-03-21T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-21T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T14:28:44","slug":"toto_city_hall_13th_march_2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2007\/03\/21\/toto_city_hall_13th_march_2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto, City Hall, 13th March 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is late to report back on but I did <i>literally<\/i> drag myself out of my sick bed to attend this gig last week&#8230;and even though I coughed all the way through it &#8211; I was DETERMINED.  Toto have been around 30 years but I will never get the chance to see them again.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.staff.ncl.ac.uk\/g.brown\/bandonstage.jpg\" alt=\"Toto1\" title=\"Toto1\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A mix of old material (including the obvious classics &#8211; <i>Africa<\/i>, <i>Rosanna<\/i>, <i>Hold the Line<\/i> and <i>I&#8217;ll Be Over You<\/i>) as well as songs from the new album <i>Falling In Between<\/i>, which their first studio record since 1999.  Most notably, I liked the song <i>Bottom of Your Soul<\/i>, a rhythmic, pulsing, incantation which is likely to please the diehard 70&#8217;s\/80&#8217;s fans of old as well as their newer listeners.  Toto came onstage at 7.45pm and went off at 10.15pm &#8211; no interval &#8211; amazing!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, it&#8217;s worth checking the very short intro here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toto99.com\/\"> live site <\/a>&#8211; to see how they look and sound live. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is late to report back on but I did literally drag myself out of my sick bed to attend this gig last week&#8230;and even though I coughed all the way through it &#8211; I was DETERMINED. Toto have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/2007\/03\/21\/toto_city_hall_13th_march_2007\/\">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-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gbrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}