{"id":2654,"date":"2008-09-15T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T23:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2008-09-15T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T23:16:31","slug":"music-the-black-cab-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/15\/music-the-black-cab-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: The Black Cab Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve written about this before, since it&#8217;s not exactly new &#8212; I think it&#8217;s up to episode 58 or so now &#8212; but one of my favourite Web-based music experiences has to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcabsessions.com\/\">the Black Cab Sessions<\/a>. The format is dead simple: get a musician into the back seat of an old black British taxi-cab and have them play a song as the cab drives around London, while someone films it with a handheld video camera (must get kind of cramped). I&#8217;ve embedded a sample of the cab sessions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcabsessions.com\/sessions.php?id=1220608849&amp;sort=chronological\">Badly Drawn Boy<\/a> otherwise known as Damon Gough, playing <em>Born in the UK<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/15\/music-the-black-cab-sessions\/\">watch the video&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember if I&#8217;ve written about this before, since it&#8217;s not exactly new &#8212; I think it&#8217;s up to episode 58 or so now &#8212; but one of my favourite Web-based music experiences has to be the Black Cab Sessions. The format is dead simple: get a musician into the back seat of an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/09\/15\/music-the-black-cab-sessions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Music: The Black Cab Sessions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}