{"id":9811,"date":"2015-04-01T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2015-04-01T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:34:30","slug":"ninsun-poli-the-islington-3032015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/04\/ninsun-poli-the-islington-3032015\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninsun Poli &#8211; The Islington 30\/3\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9814\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/04\/ninsun-poli-the-islington-3032015\/ninsun6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ninsun6.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1427748680&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ninsun6\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ninsun6.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9814\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ninsun6.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ninsun6\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We interviewed Swedish-born Assyrian singer Ninsun Poli <a title=\"Introducing Ninsun Poli\" href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/introducing-ninsun-poli\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently<\/a> and were privileged to catch her at London&#8217;s &#8220;The Islington&#8221; on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fresh from SXSW in Austin, Texas, Ms Poli was in Town\u00a0to launch her new single, &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ninsun gave a high energy performance, starting with the techno &#8220;Do It&#8221; (from her Breaking Rules EP), and leading into &#8220;Forever&#8221;. \u00a0The pace was set with more from Breaking Rules, including &#8220;Faces&#8221;, title track &#8220;Breaking Rules&#8221;, and the rocky and fast paced,\u00a0&#8220;Hey Lover&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ninsun completed her set with the empowering and uplifting &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221;, which is due for release in the UK on 20 April. \u00a0A fantastic and intimate evening, Ms Poli and band gave it their all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out the official video for &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[youtube\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/0dzlgknvkCw]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught Ninsun Poli for the launch of her new single, &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9758,"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":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[860,286,846,859,65,845,858,738,849],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-breaking-rules","tag-ep","tag-great-leap-forward","tag-launch","tag-london","tag-ninsun-poli","tag-swedish","tag-sxsw","tag-the-islington"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2yf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10141,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/04\/ninsun-poli-great-leap-forward\/","url_meta":{"origin":9811,"position":0},"title":"Ninsun Poli &#8211; Great Leap Forward","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"20\/04\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Having made her UK debut last year with her EP, \"Breaking Rules\", Ninsun Poli is back with her much anticipated follow up, \"Great Leap Forward\", which will be released on April 28. 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