Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/379015/?format=api
{ "id": 379015, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/379015/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-09-10T06:20:45-07:00", "show": 6310, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6310/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/517aa3ad-d629-3f19-9576-2e8433942ff1/7955702322-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Into My Arms", "track_id": "d4dea85f-f0b2-39fc-9f2f-e6342859fc4c", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds", "artist_ids": [ "172e1f1a-504d-4488-b053-6344ba63e6d0" ], "album": "The Boatman’s Call", "release_id": "517aa3ad-d629-3f19-9576-2e8433942ff1", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Reprise Records" ], "label_ids": [ "af6d6f49-2b4d-40fe-86d4-241906772b59" ], "release_date": "1997-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Nick Cave speaking in an interview with The Guardian about his struggles with writing and tragedy: \"“I haven’t gone near these songs in years. Some of them, I’m literally shocked to find that their meaning has changed completely to me. They suddenly mean something else entirely. Like Into My Arms or something like that. It just suddenly feels like I’m not singing it to whoever, it’s …”\n\nHe trails off, pausing to consider his point. “You know, I’m just telling you this, in a way, because one thing I don’t want is people having to come along and involve themselves in someone else’s drama. I don’t want the shows to be like that. I want the shows to be uplifting and inspiring and for people to walk away feeling better than when they came, not some sort of empathetic contagion that goes through the crowd and people walk out feeling like shit. I don’t want that. Because I’m not feeling that way. On stage I feel great. It just sort of feels beautiful and inspiring. The songs are strange things, you know. They’re patient, and wait for the meaning and then meaning changes through the years.”\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }