I may have done an every-night gig in Hong Kong because I was there for almost 16 years, and in Manila, Philippines, I did gigs there.
To make money in New York, you have to add gigs when starting out, so while I was acting quite a bit, I would do modeling.
Actually, I've been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.
I went around driving myself to gigs everywhere, and eventually, people just kept coming back.
My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.
We got our first significant pieces of press in the 'New York Rocker' from early gigs at CBGB.
When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.
I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.
Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.
I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The love of music kept me going.
I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
I came second in 'The Voice of Finland' in 2012 and my career really exploded at home. I had 300 gigs a year.
I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.
In our school, there were lots of bands putting up posters saying 'Come to our gigs'.
I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.
Before really high-pressured gigs I tend to freeze and crawl into bed. Under the covers you just feel safe for a little while.
I have about 100 gigs of music, and I'm always going through thinking about what song I can match to a scene and all that.
I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm travelling for gigs.
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
I was doing gigs at 16, belting out all the big ballads like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.
I went to see Billy Connolly do two hours with no break at the Apollo, with Parkinson's disease, during the winter, and it was one of the most important gigs I have seen in my life.
I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.
To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.
One of my first bartending gigs was on Santa Monica Boulevard at Doug Weston's Troubadour, a very famous live music venue.
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.
I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.
People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.
I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.
I am focusing more on overseas gigs, as my international fans do not get a chance to be a part of my live concerts, as they visit India once in a blue moon.
Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.
If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.
I did tons of gigs where I didn't move around very much because I couldn't. There's a pole over here and wires and a monitor there.
I use Twitter as a tool to get involved with people, to sell tickets to gigs where I can stand in a room and smell the audience - and I love that!
I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.
I remember Gale Gordon was in the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], and it was one of my very first professional gigs without having an adult take me to the job.
The thing about doing gigs is you make music, and then it is gone and that is being watched by thousands of people.
I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any dreams I had.
I started stand-up in 2007. I'd done a couple of gigs before that, but not much, and I was in a sketch group at Uni from 2005 as well.
My first gigs were at university: I'd dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don't know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.
Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.
I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
I enjoy doing my gigs and I keep my hand in by putting records out now and again. You can't really get over the buzz of playing live though.
I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.
I didn't plan to go to Eurovision and I didn't plan on winning. I was a struggling musician, hoping for a couple of gigs.
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