{"id":1043,"date":"2007-11-05T21:25:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2007-11-05T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T11:25:34","slug":"nz-christchurch-travel-the-bog-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"NZ Christchurch travel &#8211; The Bog session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tee-shirt read &#8220;I spend Tuesday nights in the Bog&#8221; But on closer inspection it turned out that The Bog is in fact an Irish bar located at the end of the City Mall in Christchurch New Zealand &#8211; and every Tuesday night there is a traditional Irish music session. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1033\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog7.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traditional? Well if you count a guy playing trumpet while standing on a table traditional&#8230; but yes the music is mainly old-school Irish celtic. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1035\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog2.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So Eve, having made sure I brought the fiddle over, suggested we have a few tunes at the Bog. I was just going to sit in a corner somewhere unobtrusive and play odd tunes as I knew them &#8211; especially when they said they were recording that particular night for a live album. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1037\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog5.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was directed over to where other fiddle players were seated. Eve introduced me around to a few of the main players and there was a kind of band all mic-ed up and they would lead the session.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1041\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog6.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then this guy leans over and asks if I play anything other than Irish? So I said sure &#8211; how about some scottish? and started off a couple of tunes. Suddenly it became apparent that most of the place had gone quiet and everyone was watching me. The fiddle layer in the band then leant over and said &#8220;wanna swap places?&#8221; I declined, but a couple of the main players came over and complimented my playing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1036\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog1.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the session got going and to my surprise I knew almost all the tunes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1039\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog3.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point Neville &#8211; with the trumpet &#8211; dragged me out to play with him on the front microphone. And when Athol Highlanders March came on it was only natural that I should dance to the tune as I played. That seemed to get a few people going and soon there was another fiddle player out and dancing too. So I kind of turned reluctantly into a guest celebrity. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1040\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog8.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a grand session &#8211; very lively and a load of fun. And it&#8217;s on every Tuesday evening &#8211; so if you&#8217;re travelling through, why not pop in for a pint of the good stuff and have a few tunes yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1038\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/nzcbog4.jpg\" alt=\"The bog Irish bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tee-shirt read &#8220;I spend Tuesday nights in the Bog&#8221; But on closer inspection it turned out that The Bog is in fact an Irish bar located at the end of the City Mall in Christchurch New Zealand &#8211; and every Tuesday night there is a traditional Irish music session. Traditional? Well if you count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}