“In the town centre, there’ll be crowds in the street, there’ll be a buzz, there’ll be people wearing costumes from The Young Ones, all sorts of things,” said Chris Broad, the festival’s chair.<\/p>\n
“Certainly on the weekends, there’s a huge number of events going on in the town centre, you can wander around, you can see stuff in the high street going on, there’s the stage that BBC Upload will be using.”<\/p>\n
He said the festival was 30 to 40 per cent bigger than last year, and encouraged people to try getting up on stage to perform.<\/p>\n
“Just come and do it, even if it’s just a few minutes,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got very appreciative audiences… even if not every joke lands, you’ll still be appreciated – be brave, put your name forward and see what happens. <\/p>\n
“The pub gig, I think it’s going to be maximum 45, 50 in the audience, so it’s not totally overwhelming – the outdoor one… there’s a lot more people, but there’ll just be a buzz about about the place, so it’ll be very supportive as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“In the town centre, there’ll be crowds in the street, there’ll be a buzz, there’ll be people wearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539441","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=539441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}