{"id":900,"date":"2006-09-06T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/wordpress\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-05-25T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:17:43","slug":"900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Count dow, dow, dow, dow, down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting Saturday night i had, i got to regree into my spotty and pre spotty youth as Steve and i attended the &#8216;Countdown extraveganza&#8217; at the Acer areana at Olympic park, i&#8217;ve never been to a concert here before so it was interesting to see a new venue.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was choc full of old artist that warbled their way across the Countdown stage all those years ago, inc Joe Dolce&#8217; &#8216;Shutupa your face!&#8217; by the end of the first half i couldnt help but think &#8216;This is SO daggy!&#8217; then i realised that Countdown always WAS daggy!<\/p>\n<p>There were quite a few highlights for me, a &#8216;Not quite together&#8217; Keith Lamb from &#8216;Hush&#8217;, John English singing his first song in the key of &#8216;A&#8217; while the band were playing in &#8216;F&#8217;, the girls from &#8216;Cheetah&#8217; who i was sure would be appearing in Mu Mu&#8217;s attempting to cover 25 years or so accumulated &#8216;puffiness&#8217; but i was floored when the girls waled out looking HOT with low slung jeans and not a &#8216;muffin top&#8217; to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the highlight was getting to see Sherbet again, a band i adored in my youth, as soon as they came out on stage i flew down the front to garner a champagne view, it was a real joy to watch these guys comand the stage again.<\/p>\n<p>It was such a great night, it was the first warm day of spring so even at 11.30pm we were walking around in just short sleeves with a lovely warm breeze guiding us home.<\/p>\n<p>I LUV YU GARF!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>International guest!! Leo Sayer<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/DSCF0046.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/DSCF0046.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Molly spins a little Humdrum<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/DSCF0050.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/DSCF0050.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ross Wilson and Mondo Rock<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/DSCF0052.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/DSCF0052.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>James Reyne<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/DSCF0054.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/DSCF0054.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fab Daryl Braithwaite<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/1600\/DSCF0055.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5433\/55\/320\/DSCF0055.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting Saturday night i had, i got to regree into my spotty and pre spotty youth as Steve and i attended the &#8216;Countdown extraveganza&#8217; at the Acer areana at Olympic park, i&#8217;ve never been to a concert here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/?p=900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tammytingles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}