{"id":1311,"date":"2016-01-21T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:40:33","slug":"john-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2016\/01\/21\/john-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"John Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It\u2019s been the most spectacular of journeys, from a place in time when John Grant feared he\u2019d never make music again or escape a life of addiction, to winning awards, accolades and Top 20 chart positions, and collaborating with Sinead O\u2019Connor, Goldfrapp, Elton John and Hercules &amp; Love Affair. The fact he subsequently won a Best International Male Solo Artist nomination at the 2014 BRITS alongside Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and Drake, seemed like some fantasy dreamt up in a moment of outrageous hubris. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Just months later, the BBC\u2019s request for a session with symphony orchestra provided (subsequently released by Bella Union as <em>John Grant And The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live in Concert<\/em>), followed by Grant taking the Royal Northern Sinfonia on a UK tour, confirmed that it was simply the latest spectacular chapter in his personal and artistic renaissance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">2015 he released his third album, the invitingly titled <em>Grey Tickles, Black Pressure<\/em>, a veritable tour de force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the 19th of February John Grant will perform at the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2015\/11\/16\/30-jahre-teddy-award-ticket-presale-has-begun\/\"> TEDDY Ceremony<\/a> and we are sure it\u00b4s gonna be spectacular!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Grant - Global Warming (Live on 89.3 The Current)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qwMCh7qfBJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been the most spectacular of journeys, from a place in time when John Grant feared he\u2019d never make music again or escape a life of addiction, to winning awards, accolades and Top 20 chart positions, and collaborating with Sinead O\u2019Connor, Goldfrapp, Elton John and Hercules &amp; Love Affair. The fact he subsequently won a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2016\/01\/21\/john-grant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Grant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,159],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists-2016","category-news-2016","tag-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}