gig

It’s a rare dream gig that falls into your lap, and it was such a fun experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Metallica’s generations of disaffected dirtbags — this writer among them — were primed for this gig.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Staying true to its seasonal carny roots, almost all professional wrestlers are gig workers.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

BBC Newsbeat has approached Marilyn Manson's representatives and gig promoters Live Nation UK for a response.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

So Nok's mother wheedled and cut deals with her society friends, and by a sheer miracle, she landed Nok's father an even better gig: Chief Law Commissioner.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

For 15 years, both with a band and on his own, DeBardi had gigged around Everett and Western Washington under the moniker Steel Beans in relative obscurity.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

We started doing the London comedy circuit around the same time, and so we’ve gigged together a lot.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021

Rountree played in a Weezer-inspired band with friends, gigged on his trombone and won euphonium competitions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2019

They became mates, gigged together and discussed Little Lady as they walked to the house where the singer was staying.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2019

Though of course they wouldn’t have been gigged.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

After graduating from high school in 1948, Rollins started gigging around New York and, by the early 1950s, was recording with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, who Rollins called his “guru.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

"When they heard that we were coming over and gigging, it was just incredible the feedback we all got, it was great craic," she said.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

"We cannot lose this music as we are on the way out," pleaded Diasihilua, who has already spent 50 of his 73 years on earth gigging.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

Years before the turning point of that album, though, Weinberg was growing up in Jersey, where he was “a gigging drummer” even as a child.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

“There’s a lot of bread to be made gigging right around here in Roxbury,” Shorty explained to me.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey