{"id":2757,"date":"2009-10-10T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2009-10-10T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T20:28:10","slug":"the-story-of-lovers-rock-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-story-of-lovers-rock-world-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Lovers Rock &#8211; world premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/bfi_southbank\/film_programme\/november_seasons\/11th_bfm_international_film_festival\/the_story_of_love\">The Story of Lovers Rock + Q&amp;A | BFI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A film set to rejuvenate interest in an unjustly ignored musical genre.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Menelik Shabazz. Tue 10 Nov 18:20 NFT2<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to this one! Lovers Rock is of course a proper London ting &#8211; but it never gets the credit it deserves cos record collector nerds see it as squeaky girl music. As I point out in my review of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greensleeves.net\/products\/7518\" target=\"_blank\">Greensleeves comp<\/a> in the forthcoming issue of <em>Woofah<\/em> &#8211; they are missing out. Rumour has it that ace producer <a href=\"http:\/\/necessarymayhem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Lynch<\/a> is also launching a lovers rock sub-label, so perhaps something is in the air&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfmmedia.com\/festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">BFM International Festival<\/a>, which includes other films about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/whatson\/bfi_southbank\/film_programme\/november_seasons\/11th_bfm_international_film_festival\/rocksteady_the_ro\" target=\"_blank\">Rocksteady<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfmmedia.com\/festival\/soca-power.html\" target=\"_blank\">Soca<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfmmedia.com\/festival\/russ-henderson.html\" target=\"_blank\">steel pan player Russ Henderson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of Lovers Rock + Q&amp;A | BFI. &#8220;A film set to rejuvenate interest in an unjustly ignored musical genre.&#8221; Directed by Menelik Shabazz. Tue 10 Nov 18:20 NFT2 I&#8217;m looking forward to this one! Lovers Rock is of course a proper London ting &#8211; but it never gets the credit it deserves cos &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-story-of-lovers-rock-world-premiere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Story of Lovers Rock &#8211; world premiere&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-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}