https://vo.rs/tags/opening-act/Latest from the Opening-Act desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-support-slot/<p>Doors open at seven and I am already inside, because I am always already inside. This is the thing people don&rsquo;t understand about me: I do not turn up for the headliner. I turn up for the band nobody has come to see — four people carrying their own amps up the load-in ramp two hours earlier, tuning in a dressing room the size of a broom cupboard, walking out at half past seven to a floor that is one-fifth full and mostly staring at the bar. Twenty-five minutes later they walk off, and maybe eleven people clapped like they meant it. That is the support slot. It is the hardest gig in live music and it is also, when it works, the most electric thing you will see all night.</p>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000