{"id":657456,"date":"2025-12-27T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657456\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:22:11","slug":"why-the-man-who-signed-kirsty-maccoll-the-pogues-and-madness-went-to-ukraine-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657456\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the man who signed Kirsty MacColl, The Pogues and Madness went to Ukraine at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now in his eighties, Mr Robinson is using decades of experience to support new bands in the toughest conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November, he completed his second tour of Ukraine with Carlisle band Hardwicke Circus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most recent tour started in the west at Lviv near the Polish border and continued to Kyiv, Ternopil and beyond<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having taken bands into jails and toured Northern Ireland during the Troubles, Robinson believes Ukraine needs music more than anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;People in the UK may or may not need the music, but Ukraine needs the music. So we&#8217;ll go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The response in Ukraine had been overwhelmingly positive, with all the shows being packed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He observed that the crowds were largely composed of young people, primarily girls, with many local men fighting on the front line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now in his eighties, Mr Robinson is using decades of experience to support new bands in the toughest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}