He discovered his comedic talents while playing a folk music gig in Paisley with his friend Jimmy Steel.
Musician Jeff Beck has honoured his late friend and mentor, Les Paul, with an intimate gig in New York.
Last August saw Suzanne Vega become the first major recording artist to perform a live gig in Second Life.
There are also plans to screen the gig in Australia and South Africa.
One of the most successful methods of landing a full-time gig in the industry is to seek out an internship.
Home Depot parking lots at 5:30 in the morning, talking to men hoping to get a gig in construction for the day.
They have never released a single album, song, nor played a single gig in a concert, club, or even skungy punk dive.
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More established actresses like Natalie Portman, Ellen Page and Scarlett Johansson were reportedly passed over for the coveted gig in the Larsson adaptation.
His first paid gig in politics was working for Ronald Reagan's 1966 California gubernatorial campaign, and he has worked in conservative politics ever since.
Last week, the tour manager for Trevor Hall and his band started the long trek to Los Angeles from a gig in Madison, Wis.
The 53-year-old star came back for three encores in what was his first open air gig in England since 1993, despite years of Glastonbury rumours.
He played the gig in Italy as if nothing had happened, came back, steeled his resolve and took up his fight on his own terms.
Late one night, he was coming home from a gig in Marin County when he noticed that Orion was in the wrong place in the sky.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford shucked corn and even shirtless wonder Matthew McConaughey had to clean a few chicken coops before he landed his dream gig in Hollywood.
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Back then, Perry had an endorsement gig in which he downed an entire case of Coke (yes, it was New Coke, ultimately one of the biggest marketing flops ever).
For fans of former Busted and Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson, the chance to have the pop-punk hunk play a private gig in your living room may be the ultimate fantasy.
Their positivity and happiness to be on stage was infectious and their next gig in Oxford at The Cellar on August 15 promises to be something very special yet again.
When Diplo returned to Philly for a gig in early January 2012, he took the stage at Union Transfer a new, bi-level venue with a state-of-the-art sound system and standing-room-only capacity for 1, 200.
For those who hate people recording, it may seem an irritating, even inconsiderate request - but it is somewhat tactical, the 26-year-old tells the BBC ahead of the band's gig in Bristol.
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As well as a reunion in the Olchfa area of Swansea and a 50th birthday party for another former band member, Saturday's gig in The Garage club, Uplands, was a triple celebration.
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My gig in the studio system ended when my boss Jane Evans encouraged me to leave my full time job in production to focus on product placement and hired me as a consultant.
There, a happy gig in a pub leaves him with a stowaway on his return trip to Edinburgh: the chambermaid from his hotel, a waiflike girl who becomes, in the city, his surrogate daughter.
He also wanted to manage the group - but says they chose Brian Epstein over him after a mix-up with a newspaper advert for a gig in Aldershot meant only 18 people turned up.
At a recent gig in London, their set included a hilariously deadpan version of Je T'Aime, 1970s disco hit Le Freak, the recent UK garage anthem Dynamitee and a jaunty reworking of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, sung by Hinchcliffe.
The core members of the Fall quit, for good, and Smith was left to do a gig in England a few weeks later with only the keyboard player his then girlfriend, Julia Nagle and the drummer Kate Themen, a new addition, who played a grand total of three shows with the Fall (possibly a record).
His first big gig came in 1959 when he joined the Benny Golson-Art Farmer Jazztet.
For her first gig, in a Muhammad Ali biopic, she earned minimum wage playing a woman getting off a bus.
But she's pushed it back a few days because she's got a gig, in a 2, 000-seat theater in a Florida retirement community.
But he was working on similar systems several years before that: His first gig was in 2003 to develop an inventory control system for KCD Public Relations that would help track designer samples sent to magazines, stylists, models and celebrities.
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