{"id":633,"date":"2008-08-25T00:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T00:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razorianfly.wordpress.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:43:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:43:47","slug":"rem-accelerate-tour-08-240808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/rem-accelerate-tour-08-240808\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M &#8211; Accelerate Tour 08 (24.08.08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">R.E.M at the Manchester Lancheshire County Cricket Club (24.08.08).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Late update I know, but I have a good reason. I was very lucky last night, as I got to see one of the biggest bands, (and after tonight I&#8217;d say they were the biggest) in the world, perform live. Yes, none other than R.E.M.<\/p>\n<p>The gig was held in the &#8216;Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Club&#8217;. Supporting were &#8216;The Guillemots&#8217; and &#8216;The Editors&#8217; &#8211; Also amazing. The gig lasted from 5.30pm to 10.30pm and was absolutely the best gig I have ever been too! &#8211; R.E.M, last night, literally proved they are the best band in the world.<\/p>\n<p>As Michael Stipe would say; <strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re R.E.M and this .. is what we do.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos I took with my iPhone, from the gig.<br \/>\nClick on a photo to enlarge &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i38.tinypic.com\/2z74dmx.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i33.tinypic.com\/1268qhg.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i33.tinypic.com\/2a69pap.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i35.tinypic.com\/mn16o1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i33.tinypic.com\/htimf5.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i38.tinypic.com\/2f0eydk.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i35.tinypic.com\/2mxps76.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i38.tinypic.com\/1hdv7p.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/i36.tinypic.com\/564yf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were at the gig, drop in for a comment below!<\/p>\n<p>R-Fly<\/p>\n<hr size=\"10\">\n<hr width=\"100%\" size=\"4\"><\/hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late update I know, but I have a good reason. I was very lucky last night, as I got to see one of the biggest bands, (and after tonight I&#8217;d say they were the biggest) in the world, perform live. Yes, none other than R.E.M. The gig was held in the &#8216;Manchester Lancashire County Cricket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,100,151,290,381,393,405,500],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-76","tag-accelerate-2008","tag-bad-day","tag-gig","tag-losing-my-religion","tag-manchester-lancashire-county-cricket-club","tag-michael-stipe","tag-rem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}