{"id":1000,"date":"2017-02-06T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madf.im\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:27:25","slug":"the-next-big-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madf.im\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"The Next Big Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chairman, Clare Austin attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manx.net\/tv\/mt-tv\/watch\/81695\/next-big-thing-preview\">The Next Big Thing final<\/a> at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night. It was a sell out and was very well received by the audience. James Turpin as comp\u00e8re did a great job, as did all the participating acts. This event is yet another example of how talented the young performers are on the island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1st<\/strong> Amy Gravestock<br \/>\n<strong>2nd<\/strong> Manx Musicians Scran<br \/>\n<strong>3rd<\/strong> Sapphire Souls<\/p>\n<p>For a chance to see more fantastic young performers, come along and support the <a href=\"https:\/\/madf.im\/young-actor-of-mann\/\">Young Actor of Mann<\/a>\u00a0competition &#8211; t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he first round of which\u00a0will be held <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at 11am, on Sunday 19th February at Studio Theatre, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ballakermeen High School, Douglas.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vanessa Williams, PR Officer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Chairman, Clare Austin attended The Next Big Thing final at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night. It was a sell out and was very well received by the audience. James Turpin as comp\u00e8re did a great job, as did all the participating acts. This event is yet another example of how talented the young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madf.im\/?p=1000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Next Big Thing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madf.im\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}