{"id":17464,"date":"2016-01-29T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T08:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=17464"},"modified":"2016-01-29T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T09:05:58","slug":"the-essential-weekly-playlist-of-forty-four-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/01\/the-essential-weekly-playlist-of-forty-four-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Weekly Playlist of: Forty Four Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester Trio Forty Four Hours released their debut EP, ‘Only Just Holding On’, last Friday, 22 January. We caught up with band member Joe Holden, and asked for his Essential Weekly Playlist. Enjoy!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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The Police – ‘Regatta De Blanc’\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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\nThis was the start of pretty much everything! When I was about seven, my mother took me and my brother off to rural Wales for a holiday, and brought with her ‘The Best of Sting & The Police’… and this pretty much stayed on repeat in the car all the way there, wherever we went, all the way back. My Dad found out about it and introduced me to their albums, one by one…’Outlandos D’amour’ being the first, but ‘Regatta De Blanc’ was the one which really blew my tiny mind away, where Sting, Andy & Stewart really got to set loose with an equal blend of each others’ talents and weirdness. The chord shapes Andy uses, to Sting’s syncopated bass lines, to Stewart’s offset reggae beats pretty much set the foundations for what we do in our own little band. I must’ve listened to this album hundreds of times, but somehow it’s always surprising me: I’m always hearing new stuff I’d never heard before hidden in the tracks.
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