{"id":23838,"date":"2016-10-24T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=23838"},"modified":"2016-10-24T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T09:26:29","slug":"guns-of-brixton-savages-to-play-londons-o2-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/10\/guns-of-brixton-savages-to-play-londons-o2-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"GUNS OF BRIXTON &#8211; Savages To Play London&#8217;s O2 Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"23842\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/10\/guns-of-brixton-savages-to-play-londons-o2-academy\/2013albumsof201332-savages-104_rj-article_x4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2013Albumsof201332.savages-104_RJ.article_x4.jpg?fit=640%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,380\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"2013albumsof201332-savages-104_rj-article_x4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2013Albumsof201332.savages-104_RJ.article_x4.jpg?fit=640%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23842\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2013Albumsof201332.savages-104_RJ.article_x4.jpg?resize=640%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2013albumsof201332-savages-104_rj-article_x4\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Savages are to follow up their rampaging summer festival performances\u00a0with their biggest London headline show to date at London&#8217;s O2 Academy.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The double Mercury Music Prize nominees will play the 5,000-capacity Brixton venue on November 25.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>It comes at the end of a big year for the Anglo-French post-punk outfit, which saw the release of their critically acclaimed second album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/01\/worthy-of-your-adoration-savages-new-album-track-by-track\/\"><strong><em>Adore Life<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in January.<\/p>\n<p>Known for their incendiary live shows, the quartet of <strong>Jehnny Beth<\/strong> (vocals), \u00a0<strong>Gemma Thompson<\/strong> (guitar),\u00a0<strong>Ayse Hassan<\/strong> (bass), <strong>Fay Milton<\/strong> (drums) have spent much of the year touring the globe in support of the album.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of this year&#8217;s stellar <strong>Glastonbury <\/strong>line-up, the band also performed at London&#8217;s legendary 100 Club and at the Leeds and Reading festivals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tickets for the O2 Academy show are available from Songkick on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songkick.com\/store\/events\/27909884\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savages are to follow up their rampaging summer festival performances with their biggest London headline show to date at London&#8217;s O2 Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The double Mercury Music Prize nominees will play the 5,000-capacity Brixton venue on November 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":23841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[264,7],"tags":[3583,3703,3704,3706,237,3705,337,7845,3580],"class_list":["post-23838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","category-music","tag-adore-life","tag-ayse-hassan","tag-fay-milton","tag-gemma-thompson","tag-glastonbury","tag-jehnny-beth","tag-mercury-music-prize","tag-o2-academy-brixton","tag-savages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-6cu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24504,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/a-thousand-kisses-deep-savages-captivate-a-besotted-o2-academy-in-black-friday-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":23838,"position":0},"title":"A THOUSAND KISSES DEEP &#8211; 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