{"id":599,"date":"2017-10-30T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/?p=599"},"modified":"2017-10-30T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:36:05","slug":"friday-20-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Friday 20 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sittin Pretty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sittin\u2019 Pretty are a five piece band from Bolton, combining classic rock, blues and touches of psychedelia.\u00a0 \u00a0Whirling dervish lead singer Conor McKenzie-Wilde takes no prisoners.\u00a0 With a retro sound that\u2019s not too elitist, they deliver a brash, uncompromising set.\u00a0 \u201cSittin\u2019 Pretty will grip all your emotions and throw them round like a tantrum!\u201d Steve Berry, Real Radio XS. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wearesittinpretty.com\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Astley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/joeastley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-589\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/joeastley-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"joeastley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Astley is an upcoming singer-songwriter and musician bringing a poetic folk-rock sound to venues across the country. Strong melodies, strong voice, insightful lyrics, what&#8217;s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/josephstephenastley\/tracks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Viney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/daveviney.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/daveviney-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"daveviney\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave Viney started writing poetry and short stories at the age of 14, largely in secret &#8211; due to a shortage of poets in the area and an excess of people who liked to punch poets in the face. Host of Bang Said the Gun: Manchester and a regular guest at poetry nights across the UK, he has written and performed for BBC Manchester Radio, performed two sell out shows at the Lowry Theatre, was the 2013 Poet Laureate of Kendal Calling Festival and in 2014 debuted his one man spoken word show &#8216;Shapes&#8217; at the Edinburgh Fringe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sittin Pretty Sittin\u2019 Pretty are a five piece band from Bolton, combining classic rock, blues and touches of psychedelia.\u00a0 \u00a0Whirling dervish lead singer Conor McKenzie-Wilde takes no prisoners.\u00a0 With a retro sound that\u2019s not too elitist, they deliver a brash, uncompromising set.\u00a0 \u201cSittin\u2019 Pretty will grip all your emotions and throw them round like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}