{"id":30332,"date":"2024-09-12T00:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-announce-rod-argent-tribute-concert\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T00:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:03:06","slug":"the-zombies-announce-rod-argent-tribute-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-announce-rod-argent-tribute-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zombies announce Rod Argent tribute concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-11\/Getty_TheZombies_091124.jpg\" alt><figcaption> R. Diamond\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Back in July, <strong>The Zombies<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Rod Argent<\/strong> announced his retirement from touring due to health issues, and now his bandmates have planned a tribute concert celebrating his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Zombies: A Tribute to Rod Argent will take place during the band\u2019s annual Begin Here Festival, which is taking place Nov. 8-10 in their hometown of St. Albans, England, about 20 miles outside of London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfter Rod\u2019s difficult decision to retire from touring this year, we decided to celebrate his legacy by putting on a show in his honour!\u201d the band <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C_yK3q5oq-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>announced on social media<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert,\u00a0taking place Nov. 9 at Eric Morecambe Centre in Harpenden in St. Albans, will feature Argent\u2019s Zombie bandmates <strong>Colin Blunstone<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Rodford<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Toomey<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>S\u00f8ren Koch<\/strong>, along with <strong>Danny Mattin<\/strong> on keyboards and special guests <strong>Russ Ballard<\/strong>, <strong>Tanita Tikaram<\/strong> and <strong>Milly Riquelme<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tickets are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thezombiesmusic.com\/beginherefestival2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on sale now<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Diamond\/Getty Images Back in July, The Zombies&#8216; Rod Argent announced his retirement from touring due to health issues, and now his bandmates have planned a tribute concert celebrating his career. The Zombies: A Tribute to Rod Argent will take place during the band\u2019s annual Begin Here Festival, which is<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-zombies-announce-rod-argent-tribute-concert\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}