{"id":483709,"date":"2026-03-19T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483709\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:45:08","slug":"wolverhampton-band-bridge-55-return-to-stage-for-first-time-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/483709\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverhampton band bridge 55 return to stage for first time in 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Karchud said: &#8220;We have been overwhelmed with the demand for tickets and how many people are coming back together to celebrate our music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been totally blown away by the reception we&#8217;ve had since announcing the reunion show too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And releasing a single marks an exciting chapter for us &#8211; we never quite got to that stage when we were in a  strong position in our music-making careers in 2007, so next week promises to be a compelling milestone for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group named themselves Bridge 55 because as children, Karchud and Campbell used to walk from Wednesfield along the canal and turned back when they reached Bridge 55 in Castlecroft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The homecoming reunion gig will also raise money for the Wolves Foundation with \u00a32 from every ticket sold being given to the charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karchud said: &#8220;We have been overwhelmed with the demand for tickets and how many people are coming back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-483709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}