{"id":16729,"date":"2013-05-22T16:45:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=16729"},"modified":"2013-05-22T16:45:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T00:45:30","slug":"hey-hey-theyre-the-arctic-monkeys-playing-tonight-at-ventura-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-05\/hey-hey-theyre-the-arctic-monkeys-playing-tonight-at-ventura-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Hey They&#8217;re The Arctic Monkeys!  Playing Tonight at Ventura Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at<strong> Chez Lefort <\/strong>are thrilled to be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcticmonkeys.com\/\"><strong>Arctic Monkeys<\/strong><\/a> concert at the <strong>Ventura Theater <\/strong>tonight.\u00a0 We have waited a long time to catch this globally-loved band, having been huge fans of them ever since their breakout first album (<strong>Whatever People Say I Am, That&#8217;s What I&#8217;m Not<\/strong>) dropped in 2006.\u00a0 While continuing to deliever number one albums and songs in Britain, the band has expanded its sound repertoire somewhat.\u00a0 Regardless of that evolution, leader <strong>Alex Turner&#8217;s<\/strong> distinctive, Sheffield-accented vocals and superb songwriting (lyrics especially) still lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>Having checked their recent tour setlists, we were disheartened to see that the band hasn&#8217;t recently performed live our favorite song, <em><strong> Riot<\/strong><\/em><strong> Van<\/strong><strong><\/strong>.\u00a0 Oh well, lots to look forward to tonight.\u00a0 The band is rumored to have been holed up in <strong>Joshua Tree<\/strong> recently recording their next album before they headed off on tour, which will include their second headlining slot at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/nme-blogs\/why-arctic-monkeys-will-rule-glastonbury-2013\"><strong>Glastonbury<\/strong><\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know them, to get a feel listen to an acoustic version of <em><strong>Riot Van<\/strong><\/em> below and then check out the (more representative) song and official video in <em><strong>R U Mine?<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>off of their fine 2012 album<strong> Suck It and See<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna be great.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll report back.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9aLxLJsy9aA\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQH8ZTgna3Q\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Chez Lefort are thrilled to be attending the Arctic Monkeys concert at the Ventura Theater tonight.\u00a0 We have waited a long time to catch this globally-loved band, having been huge fans of them ever since their breakout first album (Whatever People Say I Am, That&#8217;s What I&#8217;m Not) dropped in 2006.\u00a0 While continuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}