{"id":76941,"date":"2006-03-01T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com?post_type=feature&#038;p=8198"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:34:44","slug":"andy-highcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/andy-highcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Highcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"fn089 gekkan gaijin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7174\/6502702515_7914b84705_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640\" alt=\"Andy Highcock\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does a local Manchester boy end up in Japan promoting one of Fukuoka&#8217;s coolest deep house\/techno nights? And all while speaking only a little Japanese! Ask Andy; his night, PURE, at Kieth Flack every third Saturday of the month, is a roaring success, bringing together Fukuoka&#8217;s house\/techno-heads and the English style of clubbing, with different music on different floors. Andy&#8217;s promoting career began in his hometown of Manchester, organizing a variety of nights at local, and nationally famous venues. Want to find out about his next venture? <a href=\"mailto:pure_fukuoka@q.vodafone.ne.jp\">pure_fukuoka@q.vodafone.ne.jp<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Hometown: Manchester, England<br \/>\nIn Japan: Five years<br \/>\nIdentity: Club Promoter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally published in Fukuoka Now magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/fukuokanow\/docs\/fn089\" target=\"_blank\">fn89, May. 2006<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a local Manchester boy end up in Japan promoting one of Fukuoka&#8217;s coolest deep house\/techno nights? And all while speaking only a little Japanese!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"8198","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4911],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","location-fukuoka-city","en-US"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/fn089-gekkan-gaijin.jpg?fit=960%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98508,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76941\/revisions\/98508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}