{"id":23763,"date":"2014-07-04T19:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2014-07-04T19:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:59:41","slug":"cool-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/cool-share\/","title":{"rendered":"This is so cool I have to share it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JACK WHITE COLLABORATES\u00a0WITH PUNCHDRUNK FOR A ONE OFF SECRET PERFORMANCE IN LONDON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Last night at midnight in central London, Jack White played a secret\u00a0show in the basement of a disused office block, to fans clad entirely in powder\u00a0blue medical\u00a0gowns.<\/p>\n

The event was a collaboration between Jack and theatre mavericks Punchdrunk, who had temporarily transformed the space into the Vescovo &\u00a0Co Clinic for\u00a0contagious diseases, staffed with doctors, nurses and orderlies\u00a0at the time of a disease\u00a0outbreak.<\/p>\n

Drawing on the themes of Jack White’s current album, Lazaretto<\/em>,\u00a0a\u00a0term used to describe a quarantine island, the experience began with an\u00a0elaborate online\u00a0treasure hunt. A spoof medical infomercial from 1948 appeared\u00a0in the archives of online medical resource the Wellcome Trust, which contained\u00a0various obtuse\u00a0clues leading Jack’s superfans to a website belonging to the\u00a0fake medical organisation, Vescovo & Company. Thousands of fans submitted\u00a0their details to this\u00a0website as part of an online screening for a contagious\u00a0disease. A lucky few progressed through the screening process and received a telephone call, inviting them to an out-of-hours\u00a0appointment at the Vescovo Clinic. Punchdrunk created the clinic across multiple floors of a disused building\u00a0owned by The Vinyl Factory.<\/p>\n

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On arrival, fans were asked to change into blue medical gowns\u00a0before being subjected to a variety of treatments and tests in a maze of\u00a0medical rooms. Chaos descended as an outbreak\u00a0alarm was raised and terrified fans were herded into a smoke filled quarantine\u00a0chamber. Finally a screen\u00a0was dropped to reveal Jack and band in full medical\u00a0uniform who proceeded to belt out a thirty minute set before Jack himself\u00a0succumbed to the mysterious\u00a0disease. The rock star fell to the ground in a fit\u00a0of convulsions before being strapped to a stretcher and wheeled off to a\u00a0waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n

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www.jackwhiteiii.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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How awesome is that? I mean…really! Genius might be a little too generous, but fun-loving and brilliant are not far off the mark. I love it.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Nasty Little Man PR and David James Swanson for documenting this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 David James Swanson JACK WHITE COLLABORATES\u00a0WITH PUNCHDRUNK FOR A ONE OFF SECRET PERFORMANCE IN LONDON \u00a9 David James Swanson Last night at midnight in central London, Jack White played a secret\u00a0show in the basement of a disused office block, to fans clad entirely in powder\u00a0blue medical\u00a0gowns. The event was a collaboration between Jack and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3716,688,3712,1548,3715,2567,3714,3207,3713],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-asylum","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-jack-white","tag-pschyo","tag-rock","tag-shock-rock","tag-the-white-stripes","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23767,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23763\/revisions\/23767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hmmagazine.com\/dvanpelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}