{"id":699641,"date":"2026-07-19T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T07:55:34","slug":"the-weekend-with-lava-la-rue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699641\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend With Lava La Rue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"3w4h4\">Genre-bending artist, musician and creative director of DIY arts and music collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nine8collective\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NiNE8<\/a>, Ava Laurel, AKA Lava La Rue, released a follow-up to their 2024 full-length studio debut Starface earlier this year in the form of a fresh EP: Do You Know Everything?, marking a shift in their sound with a full-band setup. Originating as a jam session amongst friends, the new set of tracks blends punk catharsis with indie-rock influences and was produced with the help of Grammy-winning producer Fraser T. Smith. That\u2019s not all Lava had in store for this season though. The artist\u2019s brand new single comes out today: Prince of Bologna \u2013 a song produced and released by Dan Carey\u2019s (Fontaines D.C, Kneecap) indie label Speedy Wunderground. (Get listening: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ewTbm3Ywh0k\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9goo4\">To mark the release we caught up with the London-based musician about what\u2019s feeding into their current creative inspirations behind the scenes. A perfect weekend with Lava looked a bit like this: family-run restaurant eats, left-field horror movies, hardcore punk festivals, a healthy dose of Greek mythology&#8230; oh and a BBQ on the beach!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Genre-bending artist, musician and creative director of DIY arts and music collective NiNE8, Ava Laurel, AKA Lava La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}