{"id":692,"date":"2008-03-26T23:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2008-07-17T00:18:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:18:18","slug":"the-astronauts-blyth-power-the-crypt-st-albans-071285","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/the-astronauts-blyth-power-the-crypt-st-albans-071285\/","title":{"rendered":"The Astronauts \/ Blyth Power &#8211; The Crypt, St Albans 07\/12\/85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/Josefinvan00666.jpg\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?1yxbzotbzid\"><strong>The Astronauts<\/strong>&#8211; Friends \/ Books \/ Gothic Rooms \/ Blues \/ Terraways \/ Getting Things Done \/ Following Orders \/ Gold At The Top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?ylyztgiijsi\"><strong>Blyth Power<\/strong>&#8211; God Has Gone Wrong Again \/ Corialanus \/ Chevy Chase \/ Under The Sea Wind \/ Blow The Man Down \/ Bricklayers Arms \/ Hurling Time \/ Probably Won&#8217;t Be Easy \/ The Mermaid \/ John O Gaunt \/ Junction Signal \/ Bind Their Kings In Chains \/ Smoke From Cromwells Time\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"448\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img239.jpg\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very good month was December 1985, I witnessed Blyth Power five times performing in Brixton, Stoke Newington, Tufnell Park, Welwyn Garden City, and this\u00a0performance in St Albans, the only one I recorded unfortunately&#8230;I wish I took the recorder to the Stoke Newington Blyth Power and Astronauts performance with Zos Kia and Psychic TV&#8230;oh well, never mind&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A crystal clear crowd recording of both\u00a0sets, played well by both the bands.\u00a0All the way through 1985 Blyth Power\u00a0seemed on\u00a0top form and towards the end of the year they seemed even more on the ball. All the gigs that year seemed like genuine celebrations, and well worth the effort to attend, and I attended a lot of them!<\/p>\n<p>Other bands performing on this night in St Albans were The Shout who I remember as being quite Clashy, and Medical Melodies, a band dressed up in white coats sounding a bit like The Cardiacs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img348-1.jpg\" height=\"530\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img319-1.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/img319-1.jpg\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A selection of photos of Blyth Power earlier in the year 24\/08\/85 at the Idiot Ballroom, Broadway Bar, Clarenden Hotel, Hammersmith, W6,\u00a0cos I took none in St Albans&#8230;<strong>Notice to<\/strong> <strong>JOHN EDEN<\/strong> &#8211; Simon Norris (PTV lackey)\u00a0back of head bottom left!<\/p>\n<p>Use the search function for more Astronauts and Blyth Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Astronauts&#8211; Friends \/ Books \/ Gothic Rooms \/ Blues \/ Terraways \/ Getting Things Done \/ Following Orders \/ Gold At The Top Blyth Power&#8211; God Has Gone Wrong Again \/ Corialanus \/ Chevy Chase \/ Under The Sea Wind \/ Blow The Man Down \/ Bricklayers Arms \/ Hurling Time \/ Probably Won&#8217;t [&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-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}