Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/352464/?format=api
{ "id": 352464, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/352464/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-10T06:27:15-07:00", "show": 5874, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5874/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed/8995104049-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Mad World", "track_id": "9f63c722-36f2-3847-80e7-bd7ec4510847", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Tears for Fears", "artist_ids": [ "7c7f9c94-dee8-4903-892b-6cf44652e2de" ], "album": "Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits 82–92", "release_id": "5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Fontana" ], "label_ids": [ "c69058f5-0089-464b-b574-dd44b0f7f610" ], "release_date": "1992-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Songwriter Roland Orzabal, then 19 years old, wrote the song on an acoustic guitar after hearing Duran Duran's \"Girls On Film.\" He explained: \"I just thought: 'I'm going to have a crack at something like that.' I did and ended up with 'Mad World.' It sounded pretty awful on guitar, though, with just me singing. However, we were fortunate enough to be given an opportunity by a guy called Ian Stanley to go to his very big house and muck about on his synthesizer. Ian became our keyboard player and he had a drum machine, too. All we needed was someone who knew how to work it. Eventually, we made the first demo of 'Mad World' still with me singing. But I didn't like it. So I said to Curt (Smith): 'Look, you sing it.' And suddenly it sounded fabulous.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }