{"id":496,"date":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:28:30","slug":"may-you-live-in-interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/2009\/10\/25\/may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/","title":{"rendered":"May you live in interesting times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-529\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-529\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/10\/25\/may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/shelf-at-the-street-web\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-529\" title=\"Elephant Shelf at Charlotte Street Blues\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Shelf-at-the-Street-web-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Elephant Shelf at Charlotte Street Blues\" width=\"574\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elephant Shelf at Charlotte Street Blues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I played two gigs this weekend: at Charlotte St Blues on Friday with Elephant Shelf in front of quite a big crowd and at the Garibaldi in St Alban&#8217;s as half of the Delta Ladies.\u00c2\u00a0 Both gigs went really well but could not be more different though both audiences were very enthusiastic.\u00c2\u00a0 I often think I only really come alive when I am playing and that seems be the case at present.\u00c2\u00a0 Its going to be quite busy until the start of November as I have another three gigs this week and if I could keep going at this rate most of my problems would be solved.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week I did my Cabaret turn at the Cellar Door with Greta Garbitch (AKA Menno) which we had a really good crowd attending too. Then as a complete contrast I met up with Glenn Patrick who plays Blues and is from the States and we played a few acoustic numbers\u00c2\u00a0 round at Vicky Martins place with Terry our drummer also in attendance. Glen turns out to be a very nice guy with a lot of interesting music anecdotes\u00c2\u00a0 as well as a really good musician.the reason that we all met up was Vicky was doing an interview for Blues Matters magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn has a website here\u00c2\u00a0 &gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennpatrik.com\/\">http:\/\/www.glennpatrik.com\/ <\/a>well worth a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I played two gigs this weekend: at Charlotte St Blues on Friday with Elephant Shelf in front of quite a big crowd and at the Garibaldi in St Alban&#8217;s as half of the Delta Ladies.\u00c2\u00a0 Both gigs went really well but could not be more different though both audiences were very enthusiastic.\u00c2\u00a0 I often &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/2009\/10\/25\/may-you-live-in-interesting-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May you live in interesting times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batterseaweb.com\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}