{"id":5425,"date":"2011-11-02T00:54:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T21:30:05","slug":"sailor-jerrys-halloween-freakshow-at-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/sailor-jerrys-halloween-freakshow-at-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailor Jerry’s Halloween Freakshow at Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"
Saturday 29 October 2011<\/div>\n

Halloween weekend is always a busy one – every venue is having a big party and there are a million options, making choosing where to go pretty hard. I rate I chose wisely though: Mercury boasted a great line-up of The Great Apes, Dead Lucky, Machineri & Basson Laubscher & The Violent Free Peace, along with some awesome costumes and great lighting.<\/p>\n

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Mercury did a nice job of getting into the Halloween spirit – the lighting on stage was great and there was some fun decor which included pumpkins, candles and The Great Apes’ awesome light bulb ring.<\/a> Then there were the sheep heads…I arrived pretty early and killed time by inspecting the two shadowy forms that were suspended from hooks on the stage…turned out they had in fact once belonged to living sheep, a grisly revelation that I witnessed many others experience with mixed reactions for the next hour. I’m not a vegetarian or anything but it wasn’t the most tasteful choice of decoration…<\/p>\n

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