{"id":603,"date":"2008-02-20T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=603"},"modified":"2008-07-18T22:11:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T21:11:37","slug":"the-ex-ex-records-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/the-ex-ex-records-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ex &#8211; Ex Records 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img901.jpg\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img902.jpg\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?m9eyymjy1ri\">War Is Over (Weapons For El Salvador)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?oxn1omz4tzm\">Dust \/ New Wars II<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next to the first two Exploited 7&#8243;s that I own in my collection, you will inevitably find The Ex from the squats of old Amsterdam. Now this is the stuff! The Ex seem to have been influenced by the Pere Ubu \/ Gang Of Four sound, and the lyrics on most of the material released by the band is well thought out and concise. One of the best gigs I ever saw was\u00a0The Ex performing in a large squatted school (not that one&#8230;!) in Amsterdam in the mid 1980&#8217;s. The whole band would leap over the amplifiers without dropping a note. What made this act more\u00a0jaw dropping\u00a0was that there were beautiful potted plants on top of these amps. None of these plants suffered during the leaps&#8230;none where knocked off, the leaps were so high that the feet were not even touching the leaves! This band were fit, really fit! I\u00a0would barely be able to do one jump over an amp, let alone jump over the floral decorations as well.\u00a0To do\u00a0this performing a 90 minute gig holding mics, guitars, trumpets or whatever! Cor blimey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Ex were, and no doubt still are, very politically active,\u00a0on a whole range of worthy causes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the official site <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theex.nl\/home.html\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Is Over (Weapons For El Salvador) Dust \/ New Wars II Next to the first two Exploited 7&#8243;s that I own in my collection, you will inevitably find The Ex from the squats of old Amsterdam. Now this is the stuff! The Ex seem to have been influenced by the Pere Ubu \/ Gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}