{"id":15811,"date":"2019-01-05T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T12:14:33","slug":"preview-enter-shikari-at-the-o2-academy-sunday-13th-january-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/preview-enter-shikari-at-the-o2-academy-sunday-13th-january-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview &#8211; Enter Shikari at The O2 Academy, Sunday 13th January 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The award-winning post-hardcore heavyweights return to Leicester as part of their longest headline run to date. Infusing elements of electronica and dub with distorted guitars and growling vocals, <strong>Enter Shikari<\/strong> exploded on the UK scene with their debut album, <em>Take to the Skies<\/em>, in 2007 and have been relentless ever since. Championed by <em>Kerrang!<\/em>, Enter Shikari have been selling out shows and headlining festivals for over a decade, and with an extremely loyal fan base, things don\u2019t seem to be wrapping up any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enter Shikari play Leicester\u2019s O2 Academy, Sunday 13th January. Tickets are priced at \u00a328.15 and are available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viagogo.co.uk\/Concert-Tickets\/Hard-Rock-Metal\/Enter-Shikari-Tickets?AffiliateID=49&amp;adposition=1t1&amp;PCID=PSGBGOOCONENTERE6A1205F5B&amp;AdID=319273186061&amp;MetroRegionID=565&amp;psc=&amp;psc=&amp;ps=mr-565&amp;ps_p=0&amp;ps_c=1335856795&amp;ps_ag=55231007737&amp;ps_tg=kwd-470463930202&amp;ps_ad=319273186061&amp;ps_adp=1t1&amp;ps_fi=&amp;ps_fi=&amp;ps_li=&amp;ps_li=&amp;ps_lp=9046176&amp;ps_n=g&amp;ps_d=c&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAyMHhBRBIEiwAkGN6fMb2uWjyVYkparOk5MdDG9cMu5-PayoPBkT2A4RIDUktpdROCrknzRoC7EQQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a> or from the venue.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The award-winning post-hardcore heavyweights return to Leicester as part of their longest headline run to date. Infusing elements of electronica and dub with distorted guitars <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/preview-enter-shikari-at-the-o2-academy-sunday-13th-january-2019\/\" title=\"Preview &#8211; Enter Shikari at The O2 Academy, Sunday 13th January 2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":15812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[214,218,91],"tags":[224,225,226],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-214","category-gig-previews","category-gigs-in-leicester","tag-enter-shikari","tag-o2-academy-leicester","tag-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/36910953_10155844642307104_3446891832644993024_o.jpg?fit=1000%2C666&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73uhX-471","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19291,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/preview-download-festival-friday-14th-sunday-16th-june-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":15811,"position":0},"title":"Preview &#8211; Download Festival, Friday 14th &#8211; Sunday 16th June 2019","author":"Kevin Gaughan","date":"04\/06\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Don your best band shirts and pack your tents: Download returns to Donnington Park next weekend, for the UK\u2019s biggest alternative music event. 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