{"id":1682,"date":"2007-11-26T01:14:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T01:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/readings_glorio\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T01:14:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T01:14:51","slug":"readings_glorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/readings_glorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8217;s Glorious Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Random pop-culture trivia about Reading<\/strong> that I learned today (with audio references):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Mod band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secret_Affair\" >Secret Affair<\/a> played their first show at the University here in February 1979, opening for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jam\" >The Jam<\/a>. (I would have loved to see either band.) Ten years later, I had a crush on a cute boy who introduced me to the first single, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/Time_For_Action.mp3\"  title=\"download it\">Time for Action<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>In 1981, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_League\" >The Human League<\/a>&#8216;s producer made them come to Genetic Sound in Reading to get away from the &#8220;unhealthy atmosphere&#8221; of the studio in Sheffield where they usually worked alongside their former band members who left to form <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heaven_17\" >Heaven 17<\/a>. They recorded <i><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/media\/The_Sound_of_the_Crowd.mp3\"  title=\"download it\">The Sound of the Crowd<\/a><\/i> here.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random pop-culture trivia about Reading that I learned today (with audio references): Mod band Secret Affair played their first show at the University here in February 1979, opening for The Jam. (I would have loved to see either band.) Ten years later, I had a crush on a cute boy who introduced me to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/readings_glorio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reading&#8217;s Glorious Past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultramedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}