Sentence examples for gig opening from inspiring English sources

He was heading a few hours north from London to Birmingham, where he had a three-night gig opening up for Justin Timberlake.

That "one song" is "Lazy Eye," and it is probably the reason the band got this gig, opening for Snow Patrol and OK Go at Madison Square Garden.* You're wondering about the asterisk?

The sisters' hometown hero gave KING its first-ever gig, opening for one of his legendary 2011 concerts at the Forum back when the group had only a self-produced EP under its belt.

It should serve fine, if small-scale, preparation for her spring gig: opening for the quintessential everyman, Tom Petty, on his American arena tour.

Mr. Trevino, who admitted that he was eased out of his gig opening for Mr. Mencia, wasn't nearly as kind, accusing Mr. Mencia of stealing Mr. Cosby's jokes as well as the entire routine of Freddy Soto, another Mencia protégé, soon after Mr. Soto died, in 2005.

At 16 Mars landed a gig opening for a Waikiki Beach show called "The Magic of Polynesia".

The gig opens with a series of projections of glowing moons, and they'll be frothing waves, sea-birds, starry skies and other predictable pastoral delights behind them throughout.

That gig opened the door to appearances on television shows such as "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Crank Yankers," where she voiced the character Gladys Murphy.

The gig opened the way for others such as the Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and Underworld, who all played high-profile stages in the following years – developments that led to the launch of the festival's Dance Village in 1997.

Keep your skills sharp so that you can test well and present a stunning application when a detective gig opens.

The same goes for many rock 'n' rollers, including Jones, despite his post-Clash success leading Big Audio Dynamite, and it's hardly a given that the collaboration could have sustained itself — Strummer tells Salewicz that the turning point for him was a series of 1982 stadium gigs opening for the Who, a band he respected yet feared the Clash might turn into.