{"id":9341,"date":"2016-06-21T07:39:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9341"},"modified":"2016-06-21T07:39:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T18:39:59","slug":"were-puttin-the-band-back-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9341","title":{"rendered":"WE\u2019RE PUTTIN\u2019 THE BAND BACK TOGETHER !!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/HoneAvatar.jpg\" alt=\"HoneAvatar\" width=\"84\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4978 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"hone_harawira_mana\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-495x330.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hone_harawira_mana-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geez &#8230; all the flak I&#8217;m coppin&#8217; from John Key and Andrew Little and Kelvin, and all we did was put out a short statement! It&#8217;s a little bit cheeky but what the hell. Anyway, here it is. Read and enjoy folks.<\/p>\n<p>WE\u2019RE PUTTIN\u2019 THE BAND BACK TOGETHER !!!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re puttin\u2019 the band back together\u201d said MANA leader Hone Harawira. \u201cEveryone\u2019s been missing the MANA sound so we\u2019re getting the band back together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>\u201cAnnette will be lead singer, we\u2019ll have Jordan on bass, I\u2019ll play lead guitar, and I\u2019ll get Kereama and the Ratana Boys on percussion. John Minto\u2019s a little \u2018rhythmically challenged\u2019 so we might get him to head up the roadie crew!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a bell from Metz, and she\u2019s keen on doing a guest appearance or two. And I\u2019ve jammed with Te Ururoa before and that went real well so \u2026 you never know. And if he wants to play lead that\u2019s fine with me\u201d said Harawira with a chuckle \u201cIt\u2019s the music that matters\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot too sure about Andrew Little though. He says he\u2019s into our kinda music, but I keep hearing him singing the same headbangin\u2019 shit that Johny Rotten and the Stinkin\u2019 Nats sing, and that ain\u2019t us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we won\u2019t be playing too many new tracks when we hit the road anyway\u201d said Harawira \u201cIt\u2019ll be a Greatest Hits tour, with all the songs that people know and love when they come to a MANA gig.<\/p>\n<p>You know them all \u2013 The Treaty Rocks, Tax the Rich to Free the Poor, Housing for the Homeless, Feed the Kids, Jobs for All, No to Deep Sea Oil \u2013 all the tracks that MANA\u2019s taken to the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t nutted out all the venues yet, but we\u2019re comin\u2019 to a town near you \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana leader Hone Harawira Geez &#8230; all the flak I&#8217;m coppin&#8217; from John Key and Andrew Little and Kelvin, and all we did was put out a short statement! It&#8217;s a little bit cheeky but what the hell. Anyway, here it is. Read and enjoy folks. WE\u2019RE PUTTIN\u2019 THE BAND BACK TOGETHER !!! \u201cWe\u2019re puttin\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}