{"id":1346,"date":"2007-08-13T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/44-drop-out-of-reading-and-leeds-festival-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-08-13T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T11:51:02","slug":"44-drop-out-of-reading-and-leeds-festival-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/44-drop-out-of-reading-and-leeds-festival-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"+44 drop out of Reading and Leeds Festival 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/30199\">confirmed by NME<\/a> (however still no word from mean fiddler) that<strong>+44<\/strong> have cancelled their appearance slot at the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals.<\/p>\n<p>The band are also cancelling their upcoming European tour dates to focus on the follow up to their 2006 debut album <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">&#8216;When Your Heart Stops Beating&#8217;<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement the band said: &#8220;We want to start writing new songs and we are really excited about the direction we have planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;re going into the studio instead of playing these few dates. We hope our fans will forgive us for the cancellation; in the end, this will make for an even better live show when we come back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The band were also due to play <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">London<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wolverhampton<\/span>, <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bristol<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Leeds<\/span> ahead of their festival appearances, however that too has been canceled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been confirmed by NME (however still no word from mean fiddler) that+44 have cancelled their appearance slot at the Carling Weekend: Reading And Leeds Festivals. The band are also cancelling their upcoming European tour dates to focus on the follow up to their 2006 debut album &#8216;When Your Heart Stops Beating&#8217;. In a statement the band said: &#8220;We want<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/44-drop-out-of-reading-and-leeds-festival-2007\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;+44 drop out of Reading and Leeds Festival 2007&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}