{"id":640536,"date":"2026-06-15T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:46:09","slug":"myles-smith-so-happy-to-perform-luton-homecoming-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640536\/","title":{"rendered":"Myles Smith &#8216;so happy&#8217; to perform Luton homecoming gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Singer-songwriter Myles Smith told fans he was &#8220;so happy to be home&#8221; as he performed a surprise pop-up gig in Luton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds gathered to watch the 28-year-old play hits including Stargazing and Drive Safe in St George&#8217;s Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Monday&#8217;s free homecoming show was ahead of Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c1dy5xvwrgvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">releasing his debut album<\/a>, My Mess, My Heart, My Life, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For anyone who aspires to do more and wants to go further, I&#8217;m proof you can do it,&#8221; he said, also giving shout-outs to the local schools he had been to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Excitement in the town was amplified by Smith&#8217;s barber offering free haircuts, while roads and even a fish and chip shop were temporarily named after him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith is seen as one of Britain&#8217;s biggest breakthrough artists and is due to go on tour with Ed Sheeran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer-songwriter Myles Smith told fans he was &#8220;so happy to be home&#8221; as he performed a surprise pop-up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640536","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\/640536","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=640536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}