{"id":889,"date":"2023-05-23T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diegobrown.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2023-05-23T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:33:37","slug":"john-hegley-takes-the-man-by-scruff-of-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"John Hegley takes &#8216;The Man&#8217; by scruff of neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_890\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-890\" src=\"http:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Hegley\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/John-with-mandolin-by-Suzi-Corker-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hegley gets a grip<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A mandolin called Steve was reportedly amazed to find itself gripped by poet and fret-star John Hegley this week, amid rumours of a rehearsal in the run-up to a special show at The Betsey Trotwood, London, on 7 June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazing,&#8221; said the &#8216;man&#8217; &#8211; as some, but not very many, musicians refer to a mandolin, which looks a bit like the smaller brother of a double bass, an impressively large instrument by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Steve &#8220;The Man&#8221; Dolyn is expected to make an appearance at Clerkenwell ARTslab&#8217;s JuneTuneFest upstairs at the famous Farrringdon boozer on 7 June, although sometimes news like this is made up just to attract attention.<\/p>\n<p>Things that are, in all honesty, more likely to go down on the same night are: poetry words from Mr Hegley, musical interventions from Deleter (Zwah splinter), words spoken out loud by Adelaide Banks, songs sung by Jane Ireland and general chuffing about by Diego Brown &amp; the Good Fairy. In their pomp. Keeping things muddling along in the quiet bits will be proper house band Ongoing Gasworks.<\/p>\n<p>The cup cake ceremony will take place at a suitable moment. Training will be provided for newcomers. Please bring a mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hegley has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hegley and Steve &#8220;The Man&#8221; Dolyn toake aim at Clerkenwell ARTslab, 7 June 2023, upstairs at The Betsey Trotwood, London EC1R.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diegobrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}