{"id":1146,"date":"2008-03-19T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T10:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2008-03-19T21:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:14:53","slug":"full-circle-band-st-patricks-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle Band &#8211; St Patrick&#8217;s Day 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being on a Monday, St Patrick&#8217;s Day was potentially going to be quiet, I thought as I packed my fiddle and loaded the van. At least the set-up would be easy &#8211; no pushing through the crowds&#8230; Okay, so how wrong can you be? <\/p>\n<p>The set-up for the first show was amidst a lunchtime crowd who were in no mood for going back to work. And they were even less inclined to go back to work once we started playing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1143\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stpats08fcpjor3.jpg\" alt=\"St Patricks day - Full Circle at PJ O'Reilly's\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We played a long set and then it was time for the Irish dancers who did some great dances to some not altogether traditional Irish tunes!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1144\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stpats08fcdancers.jpg\" alt=\"St Patricks day - Full Circle at PJ O'Reilly's\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then two short sets and we were packing up ready for the next show &#8211; at Filthy McFadden&#8217;s in Kingston. We had the other sound system pre-set up so I just needed to set up the lights and mic stands and we were ready for another three and a half hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1147\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stpatsfcpjor4.jpg\" alt=\"St Patricks day - Full Circle at PJ O'Reilly's\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By now the crowd was leaving work and arriving in droves &#8211; quickly filling the pub to bursting where they stayed until late. We finished up about 9.00pm exhausted after seven hours of playing and singing &#8211; but it was a good high energy show and  the time fairly flew by.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1145\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stpats08fcfm1.jpg\" alt=\"St Patricks day - Full Circle at Filthy McFadden's\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We certainly had a great time and made loads of new friends \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>See you all at the National Folk Festival!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being on a Monday, St Patrick&#8217;s Day was potentially going to be quiet, I thought as I packed my fiddle and loaded the van. At least the set-up would be easy &#8211; no pushing through the crowds&#8230; Okay, so how wrong can you be? The set-up for the first show was amidst a lunchtime crowd [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}