{"id":3597979,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597979/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-30T11:15:08-08:00","show":65515,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65515/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The Blood","track_id":"46e873f4-ec7c-34f6-a64a-42c6b673c001","recording_id":"c69b98bb-7948-4396-9ef0-8d54aeff8581","artist":"The Cure","artist_ids":["69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf"],"album":"The Head on the Door","release_id":"377e3fbe-fb56-3a14-9814-9cd5d36e339f","release_group_id":"cf5d6187-e43b-3848-ba51-8ec1df3d97e3","labels":["Elektra"],"label_ids":["873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9"],"release_date":"1985-08-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"RIP Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist with The Cure, who we just lost this month.\n\n“The Blood” was inspired by a Portuguese wine named “Tears Of Christ” ( Robert Smith changed it to “blood of Christ” using “poetic license”). He said in 1985: It’s a very cheap Portuguese wine, it’s a very heavy drink that all the workers drink… it’s about 12p a bottle. I was given a bottle of it and I drank it, and I noticed the label, which is the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus under one arm and a bottle in the other hand. It was completely brilliant. […] I was convinced I was Portuguese, I just sank into this reverie of being a Portuguese flamenco guitarist. -- See The Cure perform \"The Blood\" live in 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-aDcy50c5k","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}