Word: gigged
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Playing in front of a near-capacity audience and in their penultimate gig in a month-long American tour, Altan appeared far from unenthusiastic in their performance. The group has been playing to a live audience every second night, from Georgia to New York and finally to Boston, in order to promote their new album The Blue Idol...
...18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting's depiction of the chicken groper, and a potted history of the sheela-na-gig (the wanton witch engraved in medieval churches across England, Ireland and Wales) is part of the book's but-I-digress charm...
...Mountain Goats emerge onstage, clad in jeans and button-down shirts, worlds away from the NYC rock-chic that is keeping a hold on the current indie audience. Bassist Peter Hughes seems to understand that this is Darnielle’s gig: his bass complements Darnielle’s ferocious guitar strumming without ever overpowering...
...understanding of the media world, Mitchell is currently one of the three head movie critics for The New York Times and is the entertainment critic of NPR’s “Morning Edition with Scott Simon.” Mitchell’s resume also includes a gig as the host of the Independent Film Channel’s “Independent Focus,” on-going freelance writing for Rolling Stone and part-time work as a production executive at Paramount Studios. He also has an amusing admiration for Pootie Tang...
Your manager, Simon Fuller, created American Idol. Has he ever asked you to take over Paula Abdul's gig? Of course...