{"id":3766,"date":"2013-03-18T02:14:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?page_id=3766"},"modified":"2013-03-18T02:16:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:16:30","slug":"belfast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/bolivian-rock\/bands\/belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Belfast.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3768\" alt=\"Belfast\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Belfast.jpg\" width=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Belfast.jpg 683w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Belfast-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a>Belfast is fantastic. \u00a0With eight musicians up on the stage, including a flutist and an electric violin, Belfast makes an impression. \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen them perform with both one and two lead singers. \u00a0While the two lead singers, trying to weave their participation together sometimes by alternative phrases, needed more practice to jell, but the music behind them, including the prominent flute and electric violin are a pleasure to listen to. \u00a0Celtic metal, a fusion of death metal and\u00a0Celtic\u00a0folk music, is naturally softer and more lyrical and melodic than other sub-genres of metal. \u00a0That said, Belfast is notably more &#8220;death&#8221; and less lyrical than, for example, Celtic metal pioneers\u00a0<a title=\"Cruachan (band)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cruachan_(band)\">Cruachan<\/a>. \u00a0The band plays lots of covers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magodeoz.com\/\">M\u00e4go de Oz<\/a>, definitely a crowd pleaser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/belfast.oz\">Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[flv]http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DSCN2819.flv[\/flv]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast is fantastic. \u00a0With eight musicians up on the stage, including a flutist and an electric violin, Belfast makes an impression. \u00a0I&#8217;ve seen them perform with both one and two lead singers. \u00a0While the two lead singers, trying to weave their participation together sometimes by alternative phrases, needed more practice to jell, but the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3638,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3766\/revisions\/4751"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}