{"id":265,"date":"2007-03-15T06:31:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T00:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2007-03-15T06:32:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T00:32:58","slug":"the-idea-of-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/265","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve missed most about Australia is the thriving music scene and the ease of getting tickets to high quality concerts at short notice.  Last night I went with Lyn (the daughter of the house) and a few of her friends to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idea.com.au\/home.htm\">the Idea of North<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebasement.com.au\/\">the Basement<\/a>.  Imagine an a capella group good enough to win a university band competition &#8211; and they&#8217;ve been improving for the last ten years.  The Basement itself is an intimate jazz bar environment and TION take full advantage of that to create a dialogue with their audience and playing amongst themselves in a natural (but probably rehearsed) way.  As they imitated playing trombones, the bass guy corrected the extension of the tenor.  In a gospel song, the girls jump in with banjo twanging.  And hidden amongst the Stevie Wonder and Sting covers are their own classics such as &#8216;An Ugly Woman Told Me No&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drummedia.com.au\">the Drum Media<\/a> on the way home, I found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mftcc.com\/\">My Friend the Chocolate Cake<\/a> are still around and will be playing in May, but I&#8217;m going to have to put in the effort to seeing newer bands very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve missed most about Australia is the thriving music scene and the ease of getting tickets to high quality concerts at short notice. Last night I went with Lyn (the daughter of the house) and a few of her friends to see the Idea of North at the Basement. Imagine an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/countries\/australasia\/australia\/265\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Idea of North<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murraygunn.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}