{"id":32050,"date":"2016-03-09T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=32050"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T19:36:52","slug":"the-ifs-and-ills-from-busking-the-square-to-playing-mr-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-ifs-and-ills-from-busking-the-square-to-playing-mr-feathers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ifs and Ills: From Busking the Square to Playing Mr. Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford-newcomer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theifsandills\/?fref=ts\">The Ifs and Ills<\/a><\/strong> started out as <strong>Jake Williams<\/strong> and <strong>Dayton Cooper<\/strong> busking on the Square, working to build into a full band. In the three months since they started the group has fleshed out into a four piece consisting of Williams on guitar, Cooper filling out drums, <strong>Jacob Lewandowsk<\/strong>i on bass, and <strong>Caitlin Kendrick<\/strong> on vocals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe name came from a guitar magazine we were reading, and the headline was riffs and fills,\u201d said Williams. \u201cAt the time it was just me and our drummer\u2026we lost the first two letters to make it sound interesting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Ifs and Ills are frequent performers at <strong>Rooster<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>s<\/strong> open mic night and used the stage time to push for a show at <strong>Mr. Feathers<\/strong>. Williams said that the group is working on nailing down a steady string of shows at Mr. Feathers and expects at least one show there in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With inspiration coming \u201canywhere from <strong>Robert Johnson<\/strong> to T<strong>he Gap Band<\/strong> to <strong>The Weekend<\/strong>,\u201d The Ifs and Ills are a band you can\u2019t miss out on.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14544\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford-newcomer The Ifs and Ills started out as Jake Williams and Dayton Cooper busking on the Square, working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":32051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5373],"tags":[8006,8004,642,4,62,8005,3,753],"class_list":["post-32050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music-notes","tag-busking","tag-mr-feathers","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-roosters","tag-the-ifs-and-ills","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-09-ifs-and-ills.jpg?fit=650%2C354&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}