{"id":535,"date":"2007-04-27T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T07:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2007-04-27T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T07:40:06","slug":"the-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"the bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">this week <EM>1-2-3-4 records<\/EM> released the  debut album by <STRONG>the bishops.<\/STRONG> <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">now i won&#8217;t beat around the bush, or waste time  with fancy words (as if !), but this album is a <EM>liam watson<\/EM> produced  effort, so you know whats going to happen as soon as the all too modern lazer  hits the bits-n-bumps. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">extremely authentic sounding 60s beat group  rock-n-roll that would fit in perfectly on that radio show that comes on radio 2  before jonathan ross. somtimes&nbsp;the trio give it their alll  with&nbsp;sunshine-n-harmony rich melodies, and sometimes they do the full on  garage thing with fuzzed up production.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the songs are punchy, tight and have lots of toe  tapping, head shaking choruses with the twins that front the band often coming  on like a toughened up, new era, version of paul and john and countless other  brint-invasion bands that followed in the wake of <STRONG>the beatles<\/STRONG>.  <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">of course as the world is chocca with revisionist  bands at the moment, so whether the band cross over to mass appeal level is  debatable, but there&#8217;s no denying that this concise listen (13 tracks &#8211; 32  minutes) is a fun little album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thebishopband.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>1-2-3-4 records : <\/EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.1234records.com\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this week 1-2-3-4 records released the debut album by the bishops. now i won&#8217;t beat around the bush, or waste time with fancy words (as if !), but this album is a liam watson produced effort, so you know whats going to happen as soon as the all too modern lazer hits the bits-n-bumps. extremely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}