{"id":540684,"date":"2026-04-20T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540684\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:54:08","slug":"arrested-development-to-headline-greenbelt-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/540684\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrested Development to headline Greenbelt Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Known for its politics and focus on social justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cewyneq82wno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greenbelt was first dreamed up<\/a> by bricklayer and theologian James Holloway and Christian musician Steve Shaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christian musicians Sir Cliff Richard and Roy Castle appeared on the bill in 1979, but the festival also welcomed artists known to be atheists such as Bob Geldof and  Labi Siffre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenbelt said &#8220;iconic hip hop trailblazers Arrested Development&#8221; had been on their wishlist &#8220;for many years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fronted by artist and campaigning troubadour Speech, the band wear their social conscience and faith firmly on their sleeves,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for its politics and focus on social justice, Greenbelt was first dreamed up by bricklayer and theologian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-540684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540684","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=540684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}