{"id":217,"date":"2011-03-14T00:42:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:44:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:44:46","slug":"the-broadstairs-blues-bash-festival-%e2%80%93the-wrotham-arms-1822011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/2011\/03\/14\/the-broadstairs-blues-bash-festival-%e2%80%93the-wrotham-arms-1822011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Broadstairs Blues Bash (Festival) \u2013The Wrotham Arms &#8211; 18\/2\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Broadstairs  Blues Bash (Festival) \u2013The Wrotham Arms &#8211;  18\/2\/2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was our first time at this great  festival. A massive thanks to Geoff for making it all  possible and Jackie for having us at her lovely  venue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This was one of those festivals where each  venue had a band on and people could circulate. We\u2019d heard that the Wrotham Arms was the biggest and  the best of the venues, so we were delighted to be asked to play there on the  Friday night. The venue filled up quickly and by the time we opened the first  set with \u2018Too Tired To Pray\u2019, people were \u2018sardined\u2019  all around the playing area .Some had to spill onto our makeshift stage to be  able to access the toilets and from what we saw some people had difficulty  moving just a few feet to the bar. It was so busy that It was hard to put a number on total size of the  crowd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>With Sammy.C.Richards back in the fold (and well on form after  her absence), singing with the legendary Mandie.G, the  girls were the only females appearing at the festival. The whole band was on top  form following our main stage appearance at Skegness and 2 long sets just flew  by. At the end of the second encore the crowd were still shouting for more. In  middle aged, knackered, desperation I shouted \u201cHaven\u2019t you got a home to go to\u201d,  \u201cNo\u201d was the emphatic reply. So 3 encores it was as we finished with a version  of \u2018Watchtower\u201d. A great night and hopefully we will be back at the festival and  the Wrotham Arms or both\u2026..thanks to  all<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gary<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadstairs Blues Bash (Festival) \u2013The Wrotham Arms &#8211; 18\/2\/2011 It was our first time at this great festival. A massive thanks to Geoff for making it all possible and Jackie for having us at her lovely venue. This was one of those festivals where each venue had a band on and people could circulate. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}