{"id":298,"date":"2021-04-08T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/?p=298"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:29:31","slug":"gary-kemp-ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/gary-kemp-ahead-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Kemp &#8211; Ahead of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First single from the upcoming album &#8216;INSOLO&#8217; (out June 18) is the second solo album by Spandau Ballet songwriter and Saucerful Of Secrets guitarist and co-lead vocalist, Gary Kemp.<br \/>\nAs the songwriter &amp; guitarist in one of the most iconic bands of the 80&#8217;s, Spandau Ballet, Gary became one of the most commercially successful writers of the decade. During their career Spandau notched up 23 hit singles and spent a combined total of more than 500 weeks in the UK charts, achieving over 25 million album sales worldwide.<br \/>\nGary is also an accomplished stage and screen actor with critical &amp; commercial success in films such as The Krays, The Bodyguard and the BBC TV comedy The Kemps.<br \/>\nAs a member of Nick Mason&#8217;s Saucerful Of Secrets Gary performs early Pink Floyd material the world over to huge acclaim. His co-front man in the band, Guy Pratt, is also his presenting partner on the Apple #1 podcast The Rockonteurs.<br \/>\nTwenty-five years on from his solo debut &#8216;Little Bruises&#8217; Gary has written and produced an album that focuses on two dominant themes: the paradox of solitude in an urban landscape, and his growing obsession with life seen through a rear-view mirror and how the past infects our present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First single from the upcoming album &#8216;INSOLO&#8217; (out June 18) is the second solo album by Spandau Ballet songwriter and Saucerful Of Secrets guitarist and co-lead vocalist, Gary Kemp. As the songwriter &amp; guitarist in one of the most iconic bands of the 80&#8217;s, Spandau Ballet, Gary became one of the most commercially successful writers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/gary-kemp-ahead-of-the-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gary Kemp &#8211; Ahead of the Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiosydney2.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}