{"id":25,"date":"2025-05-27T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:17:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Band<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vocals: Dave<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keyboards: Eliot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guitar: Martin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bass: Phil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drums: Greg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin and Phil started recording original material together in 1991, eventually performing as Odd Man Out, along with former Guitarist (Richard) and Drummer (Paul).&nbsp; When Paul emigrated to Australia in 2002, we were joined on drums by Greg (formerly of Snatch 22) and on vocals by Dave. We discovered a shared passion for recreating our favourite rock and pop music of the 1970s, and&nbsp;reformed as&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiobluecheese.plus.com\/thepersuadersrock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Persuaders<\/a>, inspired by the iconic 1970&#8217;s TV show. Then, for two decades,&nbsp;had lots of fun&nbsp;playing hundreds of private functions, pub gigs and festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>New<\/strong>&nbsp;Persuaders was&nbsp;born in 2024,&nbsp;with the addition of Eliot, keyboard wizard from progressive rock band&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefarmeadow.bandcamp.com\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Far Meadow<\/a>. This has opened up a wonderful new repertoire, which we cannot wait to share with you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Band Background Martin and Phil started recording original material together in 1991, eventually performing as Odd Man Out, along with former Guitarist (Richard) and Drummer (Paul).&nbsp; When Paul emigrated to Australia in 2002, we were joined on drums by Greg (formerly of Snatch 22) and on vocals by Dave. We discovered a shared passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewpersuadersrock.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}