{"id":652315,"date":"2026-06-22T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652315\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:50:09","slug":"video-of-boy-dancing-with-madness-at-lincoln-castle-gig-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/652315\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of boy dancing with Madness at Lincoln Castle gig goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A video posted on social media of a six-year-old Lincolnshire boy dancing with Madness has been seen by more than 3m people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry, from Gainsborough, was at the band&#8217;s concert at Lincoln Castle on Friday when he was invited on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mother, Rebecca, said: &#8220;When I saw him come up on stage, I couldn&#8217;t have been more proud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Lee Thompson, the saxophone player, brought Henry on stage and he stood next to Suggs and as they were doing Night Boat to Cairo he was dancing along on stage in front of 6,000 people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The London band, who had a string of top 10 hits in the 1980s, is on a UK tour as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry, who said Baggy Trousers was his favourite song, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_lincolnshire\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Lincolnshire Breakfast Show<\/a> that the experience was &#8220;really good&#8221; and could not wait to tell his school friends about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Listen to highlights from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0cjdw6n\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, and watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007tp3n\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest episode of Look North<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video posted on social media of a six-year-old Lincolnshire boy dancing with Madness has been seen by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-652315","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\/652315","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=652315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}