Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3633100/?format=api
{ "id": 3633100, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3633100/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-24T11:17:04-07:00", "show": 66268, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66268/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710702.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-005d4651-fbc0-320d-8014-984630da6605/mbid-005d4651-fbc0-320d-8014-984630da6605-40858002597_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710702.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-005d4651-fbc0-320d-8014-984630da6605/mbid-005d4651-fbc0-320d-8014-984630da6605-40858002597_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Northern Sky", "track_id": "868dd12c-1bfb-39e5-ad12-2d18be9bc0f6", "recording_id": "13d5d4a7-abee-4465-b34b-18810a79ac1e", "artist": "Nick Drake", "artist_ids": [ "99ea432a-e3d8-42cb-9d5e-db316a6a8458" ], "album": "Fruit Tree", "release_id": "005d4651-fbc0-320d-8014-984630da6605", "release_group_id": "5f8079b6-2085-3b07-9c6f-3f9d8e064e6e", "labels": [ "Hannibal" ], "label_ids": [ "7fd6a368-1932-4621-88e1-9a71929ee9b9" ], "release_date": "1986-08-05", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "That's the very talented John Cale playing celeste, piano, and Hammond organ on this gorgeous Nick Drake track. \n---\n\"I never felt magic crazy as this\nI never saw moons, knew the meaning of the sea\nI never held emotion in the palm of my hand\nOr felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree…\"\n\n\"Northern Sky\" was written when Drake was living with John Martyn and his wife Beverley in Hastings. Beverley later said, \"He wrote that one with us. We had a tree across the pavement. Hence the line, 'Smelt the sweet breezes at the top of a tree.'\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }