{"id":74,"date":"2008-08-23T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:45","slug":"alkaline-trio-roadmender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/alkaline-trio-roadmender\/","title":{"rendered":"Alkaline Trio, Roadmender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Alkaline Trio gigs in 48 hours? Why, yes! Last night was with a press pass though.<\/p>\n<p>These are Leeds and Reading warm-up shows, but I still wasn&#8217;t sure whether last night would be as good as the first night of the tour on Wednesday at\u00a0Koko. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t far off! Hi-fi Handgrenades were really good at Koko &#8211; they engaged well with the crowd and I really like what they played. Last night they hardly said anything except to name the tracks, and only really woke up for the last song. It&#8217;s a shame because I like their stuff, but it was clear last night that their hearts weren&#8217;t in it. Regardless, I think it was a one-off; the album&#8217;s out now on <a title=\"Deck Cheese\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deckcheese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deck Cheese<\/a> now and I&#8217;ll definitely be getting it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160\" title=\"Hi-fi Handgrenades. Copyright Haydn Williams 2008.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080823c.jpg\" alt=\"Hi-fi Handgrenades. (c) Haydn Williams 2008.\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hi-fi Handgrenades. (c) Haydn Williams 2008.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alkaline Trio were obviously enjoying themselves again, with an almost identical set list to Koko, and just as many smiles. I would imagine the Reading and Leeds shows are going to be pretty good if they carry on like this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159\" title=\"Derek, Alkaline Trio. Copyright Haydn Williams 2008.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080823b.jpg\" alt=\"Derek, Alkaline Trio. (c) Haydn Williams 2008.\" width=\"333\" height=\"474\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek, Alkaline Trio. (c) Haydn Williams 2008.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The atmosphere wasn&#8217;t quite as good as Wednesday, but then it was a smaller venue which I don&#8217;t think was sold out either. That said, I&#8217;ve enjoyed both dates immensely, and the new material sound really good live. I just need to make it to Reading or Leeds next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Alkaline Trio gigs in 48 hours? Why, yes! Last&#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":[15,280],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","tag-alkaline-trio","tag-roadmender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}