{"id":902,"date":"2008-06-25T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T20:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2008-06-25T20:58:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T20:58:27","slug":"stadium-rock-bootlegs-the-luftwaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Rock, Bootlegs, &#038; the Luftwaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw us in Coventry, at the Ricoh Arena, for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bon_Jovi\">Bon Jovi<\/a>&#8216;s midlands date of their Lost Highway tour. It was pretty good. The arena isn&#8217;t a bad venue, but the stairs with no rails are a bit precarious. The bootleg police were in full force stopping anyone recording, but I wondered why- the quality would be awful and unsaleable. Mind you, that also begs the question &#8220;why record it in the first place?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say as well, my previous image of Coventry as a craphole has been dispelled: The hotel for our overnight stop was pretty good, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beerintheevening.com\/pubs\/s\/11\/11268\/Aardvark\/Coventry\">nearby pub<\/a> was OK too, even with a few students, and we didn&#8217;t get stabbed or shot walking to the arena. The only problem is that since the Luftwaffe kindly flattened a lot of the city there&#8217;s too much 50s-60s concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw us in Coventry, at the Ricoh Arena, for Bon Jovi&#8216;s midlands date of their Lost Highway tour. It was pretty good. The arena isn&#8217;t a bad venue, but the stairs with no rails are a bit precarious. The bootleg police were in full force stopping anyone recording, but I wondered why- the quality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stadium Rock, Bootlegs, &#038; the Luftwaffe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}