{"id":2590,"date":"2022-02-10T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T20:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/?page_id=2590"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:35:40","slug":"the-population","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=2590","title":{"rendered":"Population The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Population Dublin; Active; 1979 &#8211; 198?<br>Line up;<br>Vocals &amp; Guitar; Paul Wicham<br>Bass &amp; Vocals; Gerry Herbert<br>Drums &amp; Vocals; Tommy Costelloe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background\" id=\"navan-road\">Navan Road<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1,497th (at the last count) band to hail from the Navan Road, The Population are a three piece playing \u201cfast, melodic pop\u201d with debts to Jackson and Petty, both whom they specifically cover in their set. <strong>Hot Press<\/strong><br><br>&#8220;The band have been gigging for about six months, and currently hold down a popular Friday night residency in Toners&#8221;.&nbsp;<br><strong>Hot Press<\/strong> &#8220;All the Young Dudes&#8221; May 1980<br>Gig Guide<br>03\/11\/1979 Dandelion Market, Dublin with The Strougers, The Regents.<br>The Population had a residency at Toners from January until the end of April 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-pale-pink-background-color has-text-color has-background\" id=\"bunko-squad\">Bunko Squad<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three members of The Population had formerly been in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ghostown1976.local\/artist-a-z\/bunko-squad\/\">Bunko Squad<\/a>. Unlike The Population The Bunko Squad played mainly cover versions, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy &amp; Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-form is-layout-flex wp-container-jetpack-contact-form-is-layout-7f6ac06e wp-block-jetpack-contact-form-is-layout-flex\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/?page_id=2590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Submit a form.<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population Dublin; Active; 1979 &#8211; 198?Line up;Vocals &amp; Guitar; Paul WichamBass &amp; Vocals; Gerry HerbertDrums &amp; Vocals; Tommy Costelloe Navan Road The 1,497th (at the last count) band to hail from the Navan Road, The Population are a three piece playing \u201cfast, melodic pop\u201d with debts to Jackson and Petty, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12611,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12702,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2590\/revisions\/12702"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghostown1976.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}