{"id":25161,"date":"2018-01-23T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/23\/smiths-bassist-andy-rourke-denies-involvement-in-reunion-performances\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:09:34","slug":"smiths-bassist-andy-rourke-denies-involvement-in-reunion-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25161","title":{"rendered":"Smiths bassist Andy Rourke denies involvement in reunion performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Smiths bassist says reports he is to appear in forthcoming Classically Smiths concerts are \u2018false statements\u2019Andy Rourke, the former bassist with the Smiths, has denied involvement in a partial reunion of the band that is planned for June.It was announced on 22 January that Rourke, along with Smiths drummer Mike Joyce and Craig Gannon \u2013 who briefly replaced Rourke on bass in 1986, before playing rhythm guitar for a spell \u2013 would perform classical versions of Smiths songs with the Manchester Camerata orchestra. Joyce said he was \u201cmassively excited to be playing with Andy and Craig again\u201d, and Rourke said he was \u201cthrilled and excited to be involved in Classically Smiths\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/jan\/23\/smiths-bassist-andy-rourke-denies-involvement-in-reunion-performances\" target=\"_blank\">Smiths bassist Andy Rourke denies involvement in reunion performances<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Smiths bassist says reports he is to appear in forthcoming Classically Smiths concerts are \u2018false statements\u2019Andy Rourke, the former bassist with the Smiths, has denied involvement in a partial reunion of the band that is planned for June.It was announced on 22 January that Rourke, along with Smiths drummer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}