{"id":116,"date":"2014-02-25T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merribeeorganics.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/25\/formidable-vegetable-sounds\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:48:00","slug":"formidable-vegetable-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/formidable-vegetable-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Formidable Vegetable Sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All,<br \/>\nHowz about you come on down to Nannup this long weekend for a funky good time? Been viewing the huge \u00a0line up of artists and Im so excited that not only my mate Ollie and his fabulous West African precussion band \u00a0TooBaBoo \u00a0will be playing but Charlie McGee and his formidable vegetable sound system will be performing on Saturday and Sunday. Permaculture is a \u00a0passion of both these bands. \u00a0Charlie \u00a0is busy \u00a0taking it to the world lately. \u00a0 We will be cooking up some delicious curries from local grass fed beef \u00a0in the main concert venue down by the river. Would love to see you \u00a0down here in the forest this Friday and all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Bee<br \/>\nFORMIDABLE VEGETABLE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/tSTFfKHJg4Y&amp;source=uds\">https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/tSTFfKHJg4Y&amp;source=uds<\/a>After packed dancefloors at Woodford and Glastonbury Festivals, Formidable Vegetable Sound System has returned home as the world\u2019s most successful experiment in ecological electroswing ukulele. With energetic vintage-style live mashups of speakeasy electroswing-style wonk, glitch-ukulele quirk and horns, this high-energy, garden-obsessed group\u2019s sole aim is to pound simple solutions for sustainability deep into your consciousness without requiring you to get dreadlocks or tiedie your shirt.From an unexpected first show on the main stage at Eclipse2012 Festival in Australia, Formidable Vegetable Sound System (from Fremantle, Western Australia) has since chalked up an impressive backlog of shows including performances at Glastonbury Festival (UK), Shambhala (Canada), Symbiosis (USA), Rainbow Serpent (Australia) and Woodford Folk Festival (Australia).\u201cSpearheading a global cultural movement\u201d \u2013 Harry Angus, The Cat EmpireFormidable Vegetable Sound System has performed alongside such legendary favourites as Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop, The Dap Kings, JPOD, Spoonbill, Thom Yorke and The Rolling Stones (actually!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All, Howz about you come on down to Nannup this long weekend for a funky good time? Been viewing the huge \u00a0line up of artists and Im so excited that not only my mate Ollie and his fabulous West African precussion band \u00a0TooBaBoo \u00a0will be playing but Charlie McGee and his formidable vegetable sound&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/formidable-vegetable-sounds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}