{"id":12728,"date":"2011-07-15T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2011-07-15T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:16:21","slug":"jicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12728","title":{"rendered":"Jicks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got tix for Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Odd thing, though. They're playing the show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawriverballroom.com\/listing\/\">Haw River Ballroom<\/a>, in Saxapahaw NC. It's a little town, a bit west of Chapel Hill, bit south of Burlington, at the end of the Sellers Manufacturing Company Lake, and one I'd never heard of. It has a population of 1,418 (2000 census). So, <i>that<\/i> sounds like an odd place for a band like SM & the J's to play.<\/p>\n<p>Here's what it looks like from space:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1711+Saxapahaw+Bethlehem+Church+Road,+Saxapahaw+NC+27340&amp;sll=35.9473,-79.320259&amp;sspn=0.026578,0.035448&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=1711+Saxapahaw-Bethlehem+Church+Rd,+Saxapahaw,+Alamance,+North+Carolina+27340&amp;view=map&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;ll=35.946922,-79.318244&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1711+Saxapahaw+Bethlehem+Church+Road,+Saxapahaw+NC+27340&amp;sll=35.9473,-79.320259&amp;sspn=0.026578,0.035448&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=1711+Saxapahaw-Bethlehem+Church+Rd,+Saxapahaw,+Alamance,+North+Carolina+27340&amp;view=map&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;ll=35.946922,-79.318244\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Rural!<\/p>\n<p>Upon further consideration, I guess a place that's roughly halfway between Greensboro and Raleigh (the bigger central NC cities) isn't really a bad place for a show. And from the pix on their website, the ballroom actually looks like a cool place. It's the former \"dye house\" of the Saxapahaw cotton mill, right on the banks of the Haw river: \"with three levels, a riverside deck, a concessions bar and coffee shop, a full service stage and sound system, gorgeous historic detail, solar and geothermal power and an idyllic rural setting...\" So, cool. Plus, geothermal power!<\/p>\n<p>Jicks!<\/p>\n<p>Poor Mrs C... I keep buying her tickets to shows she won't like. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got tix for Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. Yay! Odd thing, though. They're playing the show at the Haw River Ballroom, in Saxapahaw NC. It's a little town, a bit west of Chapel Hill, bit south of Burlington, at the end of the Sellers Manufacturing Company Lake, and one I'd never heard of. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}