{"id":18574,"date":"2018-07-15T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18574"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:34:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:34:45","slug":"top-three-gigs-week-beginning-16th-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/top-three-gigs-week-beginning-16th-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP THREE GIGS &#8211; Week Beginning 16th July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\">LAUREN APRIL<\/a>. Photo Credit:<\/strong> Unknown.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An EP launch and two festivals. GIGS &#8211; dontcha love em? x<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>FRIDAY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Friday <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>Ike Productions<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brings you a bunch of Acoustic bliss in the form of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>LAUREN APRIL\u2019s<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> EP Launch at <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>The Maze<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re unfamiliar with Lauren, she brings a touch of Country to beaut Acoustic Pop. Really really catchy Acoustic Pop, which transports you to like, the middle of Nashville. Full of beaut harmonies, poetic lyrics, and some super catchy choruses. And now shes got another EP\u2019s worth to share with you lovely lot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting we have even more Acoustic goodness. <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>TORI SHEARD<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is up first, bringing her soulful, sunshine-y Folk to your ears. And then there\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>KALLI ASHTON<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who like Lauren, manages to bring everything ya love about Country, give it a proper British tip, and then wrap it up in a package full of lovely melodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday 20th July<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Maze<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price: \u00a36.60<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doors: 7pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>FRIDAY &#8211; SUNDAY <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\"><b>Deerstock<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> returns again this year, to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside (cos its for charity, not the Red Stripe), and as always it&#8217;s full of local musicians (three stages worth actually). A Not for Profit charity festival, run entirely by volunteers. Having raised over 70k in the past for charitable causes, its back to boss it in 2018. With over 30 bands, from the Electronic-Pop awesomeness of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>APRIL TOWERS<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to the HUGE Indie sounds of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>THE SHRIVES<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The beatbox-machine known as <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>MOTORMOUF<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or the masked madness of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>BONE CULT<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It&#8217;s a beaut day, for a beaut cause. You\u2019re beautiful. Go be beautiful with them. Beaut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday 20th July &#8211; Sunday 22nd July<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trent Valley<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price: Weekend Ticket &#8211; \u00a355<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doors: Differs each day<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>SATURDAY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It. Is Back. Nottingham&#8217;s biggest festival, <a href=\"\"><strong>Splendour<\/strong><\/a>, returns to the field of deer this Saturday for its ten year\u00a0anniversary, and brings a bunch of Notts musicians along for the ride. Three stages \u00a0Whether you\u2019re bopping to the spandex-clad Glam-Rock of #FSN2018 champs <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>THE DANDYLIONS<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Main Stage, throwing your first in the air aggressively to the anthemic <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>ASHFIELDS<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Confetti stage, or having your eardrums serenaded by the beautiful sounds of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>KATIE COOPER<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Acoustic Rooms stage, there is *CLICHE ALERT* something for everyone here. And the weather is meant to be banging too, so get your floral shorts out, grab some \u00a31.50 sunscreen from Wilkos, and get involved with some lovely Nottsness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full line-up <\/span><a href=\";theater\"><b>HERE<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday 21st July<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wollaton Park<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Price: \u00a353<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doors: 1130am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yours in Love of New Music,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Nahirny x<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN APRIL. Photo Credit: Unknown. An EP launch and two festivals. GIGS &#8211; dontcha love em? x FRIDAY This Friday Ike Productions brings you a bunch of Acoustic bliss in the form of LAUREN APRIL\u2019s EP Launch at The Maze. If you\u2019re unfamiliar with Lauren, she brings a touch of Country to beaut Acoustic Pop&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"theme-button-text wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/top-three-gigs-week-beginning-16th-july-2018\/\"><small class=\"wvc-button-background-fill\"><\/small><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-blog","8":"category-previews","9":"category-top-3-gigs","10":"entry-post-skin-dark","11":"entry","12":"clearfix","13":"entry-grid","14":"entry-columns-default","15":"entry-post-module-layout-fullwidth","16":"thumbnail-color-tone-dark","17":"entry-post","19":"entry-post-grid"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20525,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions\/20525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}