{"id":2345,"date":"2019-09-18T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T08:10:46","slug":"internet-sensations-steve-n-seagulls-are-thunderstruck-to-be-playing-at-this-years-farmers-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/18\/internet-sensations-steve-n-seagulls-are-thunderstruck-to-be-playing-at-this-years-farmers-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet sensations Steve \u2018N\u2019 Seagulls are \u201cThunderstruck\u201d to be playing at this year\u2019s Farmer\u2019s Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">A farming Finnish band, with nearly 100 million views on YouTube, are set to make history as the first band of its kind to play at the Farmer&#8217;s Bash in the SSE Arena, Belfast, which takes place on Friday 11th October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_25528\"  width=\"676\" height=\"380\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4Ao-iNPPUc?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&hl=en_US&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dressed in overalls, beaver hats and other clodhopper paraphernalia, Steve &#8216;N&#8217; Seagulls look like preposterous stereotypes of your average moonshining, tobacco-chewing American corn-fed rednecks of bygone days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having originally uploaded their hilariously hillbillified, but air-tightly played, rendition of AC\/DC&#8217;s seminal &#8220;Thunderstruck&#8221; on YouTube &#8220;just for a laugh&#8221; &#8211; they soon found themselves in the receiving end of the shock of their lifetimes in the form of millions upon millions of viewers. After a couple more videos, the band grew bigger than had ever been imagined, and has been snowballing ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Known to make the audiences line-dance at\u00a0some of the biggest rock festivals on the planet, the Farmer&#8217;s Bash\u00a0will be a gig these Finnish rockers can tick off their concert-bucket-list come Friday the 11th October.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alongside headline acts Derek Ryan, Mike Denver, Johnny Brady, Cliona Hagan and The Wurzels.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A farming Finnish band, with nearly 100 million views on YouTube, are set to make history as the first band of its kind to play at the Farmer&#8217;s Bash in the SSE Arena, Belfast, which takes place on Friday 11th October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[75,49,279,406,48],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/cce02457-cd1e-4dcd-8b83-58790f5d8ddb-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}