{"id":6757,"date":"2019-12-06T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6757"},"modified":"2023-12-09T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:14:11","slug":"bring-on-whamageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/bring-on-whamageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on Whamageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"What you, dearest reader, do not know is I rarely blog live (or as soon as possible after the event). Actually I never blog during the event, perhaps in the future, an opportunity shall present itself. Yet, as usual I digress from my main narrative. Being obsessive about the closure of any given story, I tend to revise a blog post over multiple weeks before finally pushing the publish button. In true Winston Smith style, I then ensure the publish date matches as close as possible to the original event date (or when I started to initially draft the post in WordPress).<br \/><br \/>While walking to Euston Square tube station from Euston House, this afternoon coming up to 4pm, I thought to myself I am going to write and publish this blog post tonight. As I switched on Spotify on my OnePlus 6T to listen to the latest music released today I flicked through the list of artists and tracks and selected somebody familiar &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Becky_Hill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Becky Hill<\/a>. I thought little of the song title but had inadvertently selected a cover of one my favourite Christmas songs (which is actually not a Christmas song albeit that it was released close to the festive season (also as a cover) by acapella vocal group <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Flying_Pickets\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Flying Pickets<\/a> in 1983.) The original song by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yazoo_(band)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Yazoo<\/a> is typical of the 1980s electronic era and this alternative was the stripped-down harmonised version. A Live Lounge interpretation twenty-three years before the show began on BBC Radio One. Suddenly I felt like Christmas had finally arrived!\u00a0<br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\nOf course, the true marker that Christmas has landed, in the UK at least, is when you hear Wham! &#8211; Last Christmas. My dear friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RedAndBlueDave\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Jones<\/a> (who burdens me with the heaviest title on Twitter &#8211; his best friend from childhood) challenged me to join this new example of counter-culture via the social media mammoth Twitter. Maybe it has been a thing for a while and I am only just joining the bandwagon. Anyhow, I have surprised even myself having reached the 11th December and still not heard the song. This includes three days travelling into Central London for a training course. The challenge until Christmas Eve is suitably called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whamageddon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Whamageddon<\/a>. How long will I last? I will try my best to report back here or alternatively if you follow me on Twitter, I shall post the moment I have lost.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you, dearest reader, do not know is I rarely blog live (or as soon as possible after the event). Actually I never blog during the event, perhaps in the future, an opportunity shall present itself. Yet, as usual I digress from my main narrative. Being obsessive about the closure of any given story, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[390,2111,998,1953,2234],"class_list":["post-6757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-music","tag-last-christmas","tag-wham","tag-whamageddon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}