{"id":3576,"date":"2023-03-11T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2023-03-11T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:57:58","slug":"uk-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/11\/uk-grim\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Grim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3577 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-330x330.jpg 330w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-690x690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-1050x1050.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM-580x580.jpg 580w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UKGRIM.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>But what\u2019s gone on, what can I see?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You&#8217;re all getting mugged by the aristocracy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But what&#8217;s gone on, what can I see?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You\u2019re all getting mugged by the right wing beast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had a long car journey today which gave me the chance to listen to <em>UK Grim<\/em>, Sleaford Mods&#8217; new release. Aside from the bleak portrait it paints of Britain, it&#8217;s wretchedly &#8211; absurdly &#8211; funny. The Mods&#8217; appear to have both personal and political hypocrisy in their sights. Andrew Fearn&#8217;s synths seem to me to be the soundtrack to the days we are living through here in the UK. (Oh, and without any sense of irony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/music\/what-to-listen-to\/best-albums-week-miley-cyrus-van-morrison-brix-smith-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0made <em>UK Grim<\/em> album of the week with a perfect score!<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what\u2019s gone on, what can I see? You&#8217;re all getting mugged by the aristocracy But what&#8217;s gone on, what can I see? You\u2019re all getting mugged by the right wing beast. I had a long car journey today which gave me the chance to listen to UK Grim, Sleaford Mods&#8217; new release. Aside from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microblog","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}