{"id":1287,"date":"2008-05-15T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2008-05-15T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:05:00","slug":"tighten-up-rip-1999-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/tighten-up-rip-1999-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Tighten Up RIP: 1999-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancecrasher.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=108\">So farewell Tighten Up<\/a>. You were that rare thing &#8211; a regular reggae night on my doorstep which wasn&#8217;t full of trendies OR earnest trainspotters (mostly!). Plus you had some wicked guest selectors and flyers. Many good times were had &#8211; and many nights were spent cursing ourselves for not going.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a152.ac-images.myspacecdn.com\/images01\/21\/l_fbbf50fabd9a391f12e2ff7b1038b81f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soulbrew.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/26\/mista-brown-tighten-up-london-interview\/\">Memorial interview with TU&#8217;s Mista Brown over at Soulbrew\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soulbrew.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/24\/chris-lane-interview-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with the legendary Chris Lane over at Soulbrew&#8217;s<\/a>. Chris was one of Tighten Up&#8217;s guest selectors and played a blinding set of ska and rocksteady. He was also the co-head honcho at the legendary Fashion Records and co-founder of Dub Vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Get yourselves down on 6th June and pay your respects.<\/p>\n<p>Big up Tim P, Mistah Brown and Champion &#8211; time well spent from where I am sitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So farewell Tighten Up. You were that rare thing &#8211; a regular reggae night on my doorstep which wasn&#8217;t full of trendies OR earnest trainspotters (mostly!). Plus you had some wicked guest selectors and flyers. Many good times were had &#8211; and many nights were spent cursing ourselves for not going. Memorial interview with TU&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/tighten-up-rip-1999-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Tighten Up RIP: 1999-2008&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}