{"id":2156,"date":"2012-05-02T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2012-05-02T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:56:05","slug":"new-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2156","title":{"rendered":"New Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d always wanted to hear Blue Monday played really loudly.  It&#8217;s not my favourite New Order song but I just knew it would be fantastic played at full volume.  I never imagined I&#8217;d hear the band play it; I thought I&#8217;d hear it in a club or something.  But no, I heard New Order play Blue Monday at a gig at The Ballroom, Birmingham and it was every bit as good as I had hoped.  Good thing too; my clubbing days are over.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic gig and all the better for the company &#8211; my school friend N who organised the tickets.  The music took me back to those crazy teenage years and the joy of discovering soaring electronic pop.  It also reminded me of how excited I used to be about Manchester.  I still get that feeling when I watch Cold Feet.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take my camera and anyway we were at the back but I found some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/magpie967\/sets\/72157629936252501\/\">pro photos of the gig on Flickr<\/a>.  This is my favourite:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/New_Order_Birmingham_Ballroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/New_Order_Birmingham_Ballroom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"New Order, Birmingham Ballroom, 29th April 2012.  Photo by Stephen Turner\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/New_Order_Birmingham_Ballroom-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/New_Order_Birmingham_Ballroom-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/New_Order_Birmingham_Ballroom.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d always wanted to hear Blue Monday played really loudly. It&#8217;s not my favourite New Order song but I just knew it would be fantastic played at full volume. I never imagined I&#8217;d hear the band play it; I thought I&#8217;d hear it in a club or something. But no, I heard New Order play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}