Sentence examples for performance slot from inspiring English sources
"I said, 'Please let me get a performance slot — I don't care if I win.'" She did perform — in a duet with another roots-country artist she's long admired, Dwight Yoakam.
Given a performance slot in a fringe production, he attracted immediate attention.
(The CMAs might be just a couple of years away from offering Mumford & Sons a performance slot).
The Super Bowl half-time performance slot became notorious in 2004 when Justin Timberlake ripped Janet Jackson's top, revealing her bare breast to an audience of 90 million.
During an earlier performance slot, the drummer Rashied Ali applied the same strategy to an almost comically turbocharged rendition of "Joshua," a Victor Feldman song associated with Miles Davis.
pic.twitter.com/TuwCojhArk Elsewhere, the band are set to be awarded a Godlike Genius award at this year's NME awards; alongside a performance slot at next week's Brit Awards, taking place 24 February, in which they've been nominated both for Best British album and Best British Group.
"We have 500 nominees, and I only have 14 performance slots on the show," Mr. Greene said in an interview yesterday.
Although independent presenters say that it is getting increasingly difficult to reserve performance slots, Carnegie Hall maintains there is no fundamental policy change.
It operates a suitably liberal booking policy (this is the Netherlands, after all) – acts simply apply on the official website for one of the 250 performance slots.
"The statistics prove that artists need to be in front of Joe Bloggs in the street, not just music obsessives who watch Jools Holland or search out music on the internet," says one record-label plugger, whose job is to find performance slots for the label's artists.
Sony Music might have been triumphant on the night, with its acts collecting five of the dozen available awards, but Universal was the true winner because its acts took five of the night's nine performance slots, with Sony and Warner gettin two each.
