{"id":671,"date":"2018-06-18T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/?p=671"},"modified":"2018-06-19T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T12:50:04","slug":"friday-25-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Friday 25 May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeff Downs &#8211; Donna Matrix, drag queen to the stars and Rod Shepherd (conspiracy theorist)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rod-shepperd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-680\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rod-shepperd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"rod shepperd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hugely funny and utterly bonkers Jeff Downs brings Croyden&#8217;s second best conspiracy theorist Rod Shepherd back to Shangri La! divulging the fiction behind the facts &#8211; wake up people!! Also featuring a very special appearance from Donna Matrix, drag queen to the stars&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RodShepherdCT\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doolally<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-681\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"doolally\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doolally.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bingo wings out and proud here come the Doolally gals again&#8230; full of verve and fun, spirit and comedy singing by Caz Brader, Beth Allen and Jenny Harris. They perform silly songs about daft nonsense, guaranteed to \u00a0have you in stitches.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doolallyduo\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-682\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"happy soul 3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/happy-soul-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With influences as diverse and weird as\u00a0<strong>Frank Zappa, Jake Thackray, Mahalia Jackson, Scott Walker, Nilsson\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0The Beach Boys<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thehappysoul\/\"><strong>The Happy Soul<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are a hard band to pigeonhole. Part power-pop, part gospel, part Spector, they have been busy working on their new album,\u00a0<strong>Big Wow<\/strong>, and will release it this Summer.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to their first album here\u00a0 https:\/\/thehappysoul.bandcamp.com\/releases<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karl Largen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/karl-largan2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-679\" src=\"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/karl-largan2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"karl largan2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s surreal nonsense of polemical rant, Karl crafts \u2018pun and punchline\u2019 to deliver \u2018clever yet accessible \u2018 stories ,poems and musings. Karl is proud to be back at Shangri La and promises to entertain you- if not royally then at least find common ground- and stare blankly into space, laugh at stags and poke fun at swans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Downs &#8211; Donna Matrix, drag queen to the stars and Rod Shepherd (conspiracy theorist)\u00a0 The hugely funny and utterly bonkers Jeff Downs brings Croyden&#8217;s second best conspiracy theorist Rod Shepherd back to Shangri La! divulging the fiction behind the facts &#8211; wake up people!! Also featuring a very special appearance from Donna Matrix, drag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680,"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\/671"}],"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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshangrila.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}