The word "gig" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a live musical performance, such as a concert, or a temporary job. For example: "My brother is playing a gig at a local bar this weekend."
Now it's as though only designs featuring the liberal application of gradient, southern cross stars and random colour splotches get a gig.
In the auditorium at the far side of the park, in a high-ceilinged room with wooden floors and long black curtains, a small audience settles in to listen to a series of international musicians taking part in an experimental gig.
"Sometimes I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time," he says when we meet in a cafe a couple of days before the gig.
Then the first gig, where we came to understand how things would work, typically with each artist playing one or two songs, in collaboration with any of the other 80-odd acts on the tour.
She got dressed up, went backstage after a gig, and knocked on the dressing room door.
Dick Powell, the actor-turned-director, took the gig for the pay check, said his sonNorman, himself a director, speaking from his home near Hollywood.
This Twitter-savvy newcomer secures the band a gig at SXSW, the Texan music festival where the underground traditionally goes over.
And when my blogging got me a paid writing gig, I saw the exit and took it.
Mattie Faint has been a professional clown since he was 17 when, as a theatre student up from Plymouth, he got a gig as a grease-painted human signpost for a puppet show in London.
This late-night Glasgow jazz festival gig (he also plays Ronnie Scott's on 4 & 5 Jul) presents Dave with his own Drumhedz group, the rotating cast first glimpsed in the UK at last year's London jazz festival, fusing music by Hendrix, D'Angelo, Radiohead or J Dilla with their updates on distant jazz classics.
He who gives nothing to the media but a cursory nod, performed the gig quietly on Sunday in front of Wikingsson and eight cameras.
