{"id":651835,"date":"2026-06-22T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:03:13","slug":"headliners-for-coventrys-revamped-godiva-to-be-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651835\/","title":{"rendered":"Headliners for Coventry&#8217;s revamped Godiva to be named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Headline acts for Godiva in the City are expected to be named and confirmed on Monday, with the two-day event due to start in less than a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coventry City Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgdg4m24l5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed in February<\/a> that a slimmed down version would replace the traditional three-night Godiva Festival at the War Memorial Park as part of budget-saving measures, claiming the existing festival was no longer financially viable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new event is due to start on 4 July, with potential visitors still in the dark over who might be performing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What is known is that it will be based at two locations in the city centre: Millennium Place outside the Transport Museum and the Gosford Street car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Godiva festival was first held in 1997 as a free event, with the council charging for tickets in 2019, to help cover costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In February, they confirmed they were &#8220;pausing&#8221; the festival at the War Memorial Park amid rising costs and other challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sales of tickets had fallen, meaning the local authority had to spend more money than expected on covering the cost of booking acts, providing security and safety staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headline acts for Godiva in the City are expected to be named and confirmed on Monday, with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651835","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=651835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}