{"id":810,"date":"2010-05-23T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2010-05-23T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:18:25","slug":"installed-in-mazamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/05\/23\/installed-in-mazamet\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed in Mazamet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a very nice time down here in France,our first couple of gigs went pretty well.<br \/>\nThe first was at the Auberge du Balestie which had a great view of the Pyrenees from the car park, you tend not to get that sort of thing in St Albans  Lots of ex pats there plus a fair smattering of French folk, and a very nice drive there and back over the Black Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday we played at the L&#8217;Pot Ethique which is a place in town, a sort of co-op with organic beer &amp; stuff and we got a very good crowd, this time much more of a French contingent and it was very well received and for the first time on a duo gig we put in Great Balls of Fire which was a good opportunity for some karate piano. They also did some fab veggie food too for the visiting artist LOL.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who is getting us the gigs was very happy with our performance and we could be looking at some good stuff in Europe later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Its very hot today, just come back from a stroll around the town, with hardly a soul about. We will be doing a bit more site-seeing during the week as our next gig is Friday and is in a local bar here. Then another one on the other side of the Mountains on Saturday. I could easily get used to this sort of life style, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a very nice time down here in France,our first couple of gigs went pretty well. The first was at the Auberge du Balestie which had a great view of the Pyrenees from the car park, you tend not to get that sort of thing in St Albans Lots of ex pats there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/05\/23\/installed-in-mazamet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Installed in Mazamet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-d4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57448,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/10\/18\/octobers-doings\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":0},"title":"Octobers doings","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"10 days away and it went very quickly. 2 days to get there with and overnight stop in Le Mans to make it not too much of of an effort , though driving in france is very easy compared to the UK most of the time. 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I looked forward to the break as I have a been a bit below par mental health-wise and it had\u00a0made me feel a bit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":821,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/06\/05\/back-home-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":810,"position":2},"title":"Back home again","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well we did our mini-tour of the south of France, and played possibly some of the best gigs ever. 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