{"id":25400,"date":"2025-09-16T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25400\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:56:06","slug":"status-quo-rock-band-legend-francis-rossi-brings-new-show-to-runcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/25400\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Quo rock band legend Francis Rossi brings new show to Runcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Brindley theatre will host Status Quo\u2019s Francis Rossi for an evening of the band&#8217;s hits, his own songs and stories from his incredible life in music, all cut through with wit and humour.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show\u2019s novel format will feature live music, from Status Quo signatures to personal favourites and deeper cuts, alongside accounts of misadventures across the world, life with Rick Parfitt, and fellow stars.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Being staged on Monday, November 3, it promises backstage tales of appearing over a hundred times on Top of the Pops and why the band went on first at Live Aid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThink you know Francis? Not yet you don&#8217;t. The story starts with Pictures of Matchstick Men but continues right up to present day,\u201d a spokesman said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Francis will mostly be playing his Acoustasonic guitar which, as he says, \u2018is basically a Telecaster but more compatible with a show of this nature \u2013 it still has the ring and sound of a Tele\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Limited VIP tickets available at the show offer fans the opportunity to attend a pre-show meet-and-greet event, photographs and item signing with Francis, the best seats in the house, and exclusive tour merchandise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For tickets and more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrindley.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thebrindley.org.uk<\/a> or call the box office on 0151 907 8360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brindley theatre will host Status Quo\u2019s Francis Rossi for an evening of the band&#8217;s hits, his own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-25400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}