{"id":2609,"date":"2013-10-23T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2016-02-05T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:53:42","slug":"local-artists-get-big-name-support-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/local-artists-get-big-name-support-slots\/","title":{"rendered":"Local artists get BIG NAME support slots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h1>Two Leicester music acts today announce support slots<\/h1>\n<p>23rd October 2013\u00a0\u220f<\/p>\n<p>ArtsIn Productions today announced that their artist <strong>Jonezy<\/strong> will be supporting hot new band <strong>The Vamps<\/strong> on 2nd November.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the band from The West Midlands that is making waves the climbing the charts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coventrytelegraph.net\/whats-on\/music\/midlands-band-vamps-set-summer-3405898\" target=\"_blank\">interview with The Vamps in the Coventry Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsinleicestershire.co.uk\/singers\/jonezymusic.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jonezy from the Arts in Leicester web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2137\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jonezy_beaconfest_2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2137\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jonezy_beaconfest_2.jpg?resize=600%2C552\" alt=\"Jonezy at Beaconfest\" width=\"600\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jonezy_beaconfest_2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jonezy_beaconfest_2.jpg?resize=300%2C276&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonezy at Beaconfest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Leicester rapper will be on stage at the <strong>Abbey Park Fireworks<\/strong> on Saturday 2nd November, supporting a band that has been tipped to become as big as One Direction &#8211; <strong>The Vamps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also on stage will be local artist <strong>Curtis Clacy<\/strong>. \u00a0The event normally attracts between 15,000 and 20,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsinleicestershire.co.uk\/whatson\/index.htm#abbeypark\" target=\"_blank\">See more about this on Arts in Leicester<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dhqbcYTdSkI\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Jonezy performing with Norway&#8217;s young singer Alexandru, in Leicester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bytherivers_promophoto.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bytherivers_promophoto.jpg?resize=600%2C420\" alt=\"vy the rivers band\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bytherivers_promophoto.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bytherivers_promophoto.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By The Rivers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dormant Press today announced that Leicester&#8217;s <strong>By The Rivers<\/strong> will be supporting <strong>Jamie Cullum<\/strong> in Nottingham on 29th October at The Nottingham Royal Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Dormant press told us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Last week Jazz-Pop singer Jamie Cullum, in association with BBC Introducing, announced which acts will be supporting him on his latest UK tour, and Leicester Brit Reggae six-piece By The Rivers have been chosen to represent the Midlands music scene at his Nottingham show at the Royal Arena on 29 October 2013. \u00a0Following their appearance at Glastonbury this year on the BBC Introducing stage, and being picked as one of \u20185 Future Pyramid Stars\u2019 alongside Bastille, Foals, Jessie Ware and The Strypes, the band are sure to prove popular with Jamie\u2019s fans. Not only are the six-piece thoroughly excited to play with Jamie Cullum, but it leads them them with high spirits into a month of touring up and down the country on their highly successful Official UK Tour, which has seen them headline in cities across the UK to scores of fans.<\/p>\n<h2>See also:<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"News about Bands 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/?p=247\" target=\"_blank\">News about Leicester bands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Two Leicester music acts today announce support slots 23rd October 2013\u00a0\u220f ArtsIn Productions today announced that their artist Jonezy will be supporting hot new band <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/local-artists-get-big-name-support-slots\/\" title=\"Local artists get BIG NAME support slots\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2138,"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":[108,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-relating-to-2013","category-music-home-page","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/jonezy_beaconfest_3.jpg?fit=600%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73uhX-G5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2549,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/strike-up-the-colours-to-perform-with-rapper-jonezy\/","url_meta":{"origin":2609,"position":0},"title":"Strike Up The Colours to perform with rapper Jonezy","author":"Trevor Locke","date":"20\/10\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"23rd October JONEZY gets big support slot Leicester rapper Jonezy is to support hot new band The Vamps at the Abbey Park Fireworks show. 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