{"id":354985,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/354985/?format=json","airdate":"2019-07-16T06:52:00-07:00","show":5919,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5919/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Whole Wide World","track_id":"de23a588-ec4b-3632-92de-bab05a0b307c","recording_id":null,"artist":"Wreckless Eric","artist_ids":["b80f2162-c04e-400d-bc5f-124eacbd9fd2"],"album":"Whole Wide World","release_id":"d89b95da-f2b7-4b72-b916-d20f401843b2","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Stiff Records"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1977-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"This song stems back to Eric \"Wreckless Eric\" Goulden's days of studying fine art at Hull Art College and was inspired by words of encouragement from his mum. (She told her son that one day he'd find a girl in the world just for him). Goulden recalled to Mojo magazine June 2014: \"I was trying to avoid this girl I was going out with. I went to the university bar because I never went there, had a drink, then I sat on a bench on the Cottingham Road and wrote most of the words to the song on the back of an envelope. I had this melody and I was sure I could just use two chords in the song,\" he continued. \"I kept on singing the song on the way home to try and remember it: 'When I was a young man. My mother said to me....'\n\nI got home and found the girl sitting on the doorstep,\" Goulden added. \"She said where have you been? We were meant to go out.' I told her I'd been busy and I rushed inside. I didn't have an amp in my room so I had the bass wedged up against my wardrobe so I could hear what I was playing trying to work out the two chords.\"\n\n\"I suppose I split up with her while I was trying to write the song, which makes me a bit of a heel,\" he concluded.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}