{"id":23,"date":"2010-10-19T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/10\/plan-b-manchester-academy-151010.html"},"modified":"2010-10-19T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T21:04:00","slug":"plan-b-manchester-academy-151010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/plan-b-manchester-academy-151010\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan B &#8211; Manchester Academy &#8211; 15\/10\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its when I get to shoot the biggest selling UK artist of 2010 that I know I must be doing something right. Plan B&#8217;s &#8216;The Defamation of Strickland Banks&#8217; has received great reviews from all quarters and he&#8217;s sold out the Manchester Academy tonight on the back of it. The crowd is quite the mix of demographics and a suitable demonstration of his new material&#8217;s mainstream appeal, and why some of my friends now hate him. Either way its a far cry from the first time I saw him perform; in this very building supporting Roots Manuva, just one young man and an acoustic guitar on stage.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the performance goes, it&#8217;s flawless. The stage is mocked up to the theme of the album and the star and his band are suited and booted. Plan B rattles through his new album, the audience loving every minute and the excellent decor and lighting means I got some excellent shots. Shame I had to leave before the end to get to another gig.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5097146905\/\" title=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4126\/5097146905_e675192cde.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5097742736\/\" title=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4125\/5097742736_0ac3db9c7b.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5097742534\/\" title=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4083\/5097742534_e5f1ef97bb.jpg\" width=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5097146727\/\" title=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4133\/5097146727_3ac7e668e3.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyb_manchester\/5097146489\/\" title=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10 by Gary @ GB Multimedia, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plan B - Manchester Academy - 15\/10\/10\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5097146489_2beab56309.jpg\" width=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its when I get to shoot the biggest selling UK artist of 2010 that I know I must be doing something right. Plan B&#8217;s &#8216;The Defamation of Strickland Banks&#8217; has received great reviews from all quarters and he&#8217;s sold out the Manchester Academy tonight on the back of it. The crowd is quite the mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,15,14,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"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=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}