{"id":463099,"date":"2025-12-21T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463099\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:50:13","slug":"the-war-on-drugs-plays-philadelphia-fundraiser-gigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463099\/","title":{"rendered":"The War On Drugs plays Philadelphia fundraiser gigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a change of scenery for some fans who got to witness the band <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/adam-granduciel-interview-the-war-on-drugs-philadelphia-show-mann-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last year at The Mann Center<\/a>, with less room for the attendees by the bar and the artists on a smaller stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing back from wherever we\u2019ve been, whether it\u2019s Madison Square Garden or the O2 Arena or whatever, it\u2019s like coming back home and playing at like the place where, in a lot of respects, we were born,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the band\u2019s seven members having to share space, they made sure to make room for several guests throughout \u201cDrugcember.\u201d For the first night, Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney opened for the band and shared the stage with them for a couple of numbers, including the Lou Reed song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kJoHspUta-E&amp;list=RDkJoHspUta-E&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSatellite of Love.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a change of scenery for some fans who got to witness the band last year at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,11878,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,91452],"class_list":{"0":"post-463099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-live-music","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-war-on-drugs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115760006740307899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}