{"id":752741,"date":"2026-08-28T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:08:12","slug":"blossoms-new-song-about-manchester-to-stockport-192-bus-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/752741\/","title":{"rendered":"Blossoms new song about Manchester to Stockport 192 bus route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blossoms are following in the footsteps of other successful indie and rock bands who have found inspiration on Britain&#8217;s buses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Clash referenced London&#8217;s No. 19 bus in Rudie Can&#8217;t Fail, while Birmingham band Superfood featured the No. 9 route in Unstoppable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional Driver tells the story of a  journey home that begins when approaching the junction at the O2 Apollo, in Manchester city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The song concludes with the closing lines, &#8220;Should&#8217;ve got the 192&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Gamble, the Stagecoach driver who was behind the wheel of the bus featured in the music video said he &#8220;really enjoyed meeting Blossoms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are a really good bunch of lads, very polite and chatty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was a pleasure to drive them around while they filmed their music video.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blossoms are following in the footsteps of other successful indie and rock bands who have found inspiration on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752741","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\/752741","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=752741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}