{"id":1048,"date":"2008-11-12T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:17:56","slug":"english_folk_ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/11\/english_folk_ni.html","title":{"rendered":"English Folk Night at the Bottom Lounge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We\/Or\/Me<\/strong> &#8211; Didn&#8217;t like these guys. Too slow and depressing and totally slit your wrists to music. Whoops, did I say that out loud? Musically I&#8217;m sure they were fine. It was just way too mellow for me at that moment. We retired to the outer bar and the photobooth to pep ourselves back up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mumford &amp; Sons<\/strong> &#8211; If you&#8217;ve been reading, then you must already know I absolutely LOVED these guys. Lead has a very distinctive voice, band sports unusual instruments, lots of harmonies and earnestness. They put on a great show, I am completely obsessed with a few of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/09\/i_am_now_offici.html\">only five tunes <\/a>I&#8217;ve been able to get recordings of so far (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/lyrics_of_a_fru.html\">this one<\/a>), and I would highly recommend them should they stop by your town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Marling <\/strong>&#8211; She has an interesting voice but I wasn&#8217;t really feelin&#8217; it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit <\/strong>&#8211; Liked these guys. Certainly the most &#8220;rock&#8221; folk of the evening and a slightly more polished set than the others (not that polish is always a good thing, but they stood out as seemingly a more experienced touring band). But almost more entertaining than the music was watching members of the previous bands dancing in the audience. Clearly they are all having a great time touring together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\/Or\/Me &#8211; Didn&#8217;t like these guys. Too slow and depressing and totally slit your wrists to music. Whoops, did I say that out loud? Musically I&#8217;m sure they were fine. It was just way too mellow for me at that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/11\/english_folk_ni.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}