{"id":449,"date":"2009-03-04T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:12","slug":"gaslight-frank-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/gaslight-frank-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaslight Frank Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in attendance for all three acts at Rock City last night &#8211; Polar Bear Club, Frank Turner and Gaslight Anthem. The main reason for going was to catch Frank, but both other bands were good fun to photograph too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_450\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090303a.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;strong&gt;Polar Bear Club, Rock City.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" title=\"Polar Bear Club, Rock City. Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" width=\"346\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Polar Bear Club, Rock City.<\/strong><br \/>Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard good things about Polar Bear Club, and lo and behold, I enjoyed them immensely. They gave the impression they were very comfortable as a band on stage, and had an impressive following in the crowd, especially for an opening act from the States.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090303b.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;strong&gt;Frank Turner, Rock City.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" title=\"Frank Turner, Rock City. Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" width=\"347\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-451\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Frank Turner, Rock City.<\/strong><br \/>Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Frank Turner was up next, and I was keen to see him on form after his unfortunate exit due to illness halfway through his Rescue Rooms set a few months ago. As it turns out, it was awesome. The lyrics are exceptional, the between-song banter is great, and the integrity and feeling come across loud and clear. Stunning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_452\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/20090303c.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;strong&gt;Gaslight Anthem, Rock City.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" title=\"Gaslight Anthem, Rock City. Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-452\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Gaslight Anthem, Rock City.<\/strong><br \/>Copyright Haydn Williams 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gaslight Anthem were the main act, and I didn&#8217;t know any of their stuff either. They seemed pretty polished, and the crowd were loving it. Pretty good to photograph, but not really too exciting musically, for my taste. As I say, everyone else seemed pretty stoked, so I left Rock City full of happy people &#8211; excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in attendance for all three acts at Rock&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[107,113,114,252,282],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","tag-frank-turner","tag-gaslight-anthem","tag-gig","tag-polar-bear-club","tag-rock-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}