{"id":129,"date":"2017-10-26T16:37:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=129"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:43:24","slug":"when-rock-went-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/26\/when-rock-went-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN ROCK WENT TO COLLEGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff, students, and alumni of the university will have recently received an invitation to the launch of \u2018When Rock Went to College\u2019 – a comprehensive book detailing the bands that played the Great Hall by Paul Tomlinson and Barry Lucas. subtext has twice reported on this work; once to encourage anybody with any information \/ photos to contact the authors, and once to announce a release date… of Spring 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve no idea what the delay was, but it\u2019s a delight to see that it wasn\u2019t a (too!) long one. It is well remembered, but little known today, that the Great Hall formerly was a regular stop on the live music circuit. We played host to U2, Elvis Costello, The Who, Sparks, and many others. The launch takes place tomorrow in the Great Hall at 7:30PM. Your correspondent was fortunate enough to see the reams of research, photos, and trinkets that co-author Paul Tomlinson had compiled back when the project was in its infancy. That alone is enough for us to recommend the book, which can be purchased here: www.tinyurl.com\/ycmoc7ld<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staff, students, and alumni of the university will have recently received an invitation to the launch of \u2018When Rock Went to College\u2019 – a comprehensive book detailing the bands that played the Great Hall by Paul Tomlinson and Barry Lucas. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[74,120,66],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-history","tag-issue-167","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-25","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/26\/when-rock-played-truant\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"WHEN ROCK PLAYED TRUANT","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 26 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Further to our little plug for Paul Tomlinson and Barry Lucas\u2019s compendium of the bands that played Lancaster, the sheer magnitude of the acts we played host to does raise the question: why don\u2019t we do this anymore? 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