{"id":19,"date":"2010-10-07T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/10\/example-manchester-academy-2-290910.html"},"modified":"2010-10-07T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:24:00","slug":"example-manchester-academy-2-290910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/example-manchester-academy-2-290910\/","title":{"rendered":"Example- Manchester Academy 2- 29\/09\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Student Union with just a few minutes to spare before Examples performance, to be greeted by the most packed out Academy 2 that I have ever witnessed. Fair play really as tonights headline act has had all his singles A-listed on Radio 1 and, if anywhere, I would have expected him to be playing the main Academy venue.<\/p>\n<p>Making my way to the front (made easier while waving a large and heavy camera in peoples faces!), I arrive in the pit just in time as the crowd erupts and Example takes to the stage to his smash hit &#8216;Won&#8217;t Go Quietly&#8217;. After my 3 song photo allowance, I watched the rest of his set from the side and was quite impressed. For somebody&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t note down as my cup of tea, his stage show was lively and energetic and kept the crowd buzzing throughout- even though it became apparent a decent proportion of them only knew the radio singles.<\/p>\n<p>After a pretty long set for an artist with just one album, Example encored with his debut hit &#8216;Watch the Sun Come Up&#8217; and the crowd left happy. I got home to find the following gems amongst the shots I took&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5060596396\/\" title=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5060596396_84c4dcdc0b.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5059985541\/\" title=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4087\/5059985541_f37e7e892f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5060597362\/\" title=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4144\/5060597362_a941f5ea29.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5059984087\/\" title=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4127\/5059984087_d911d42a82.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" alt=\"Example - Manchester - 29\/09\/10\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Student Union with just a few minutes to spare before Examples performance, to be greeted by the most packed out Academy 2 that I have ever witnessed. Fair play really as tonights headline act has had all his singles A-listed on Radio 1 and, if anywhere, I would have expected him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,26,15,14,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}