{"id":674792,"date":"2026-07-05T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674792\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:30:10","slug":"scouting-for-girls-praise-rammed-debut-halo-festival-in-ipswich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674792\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting for Girls praise &#8216;rammed&#8217; debut Halo Festival in Ipswich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Front man Ben Watts said he was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; post show, after headlining the Suffolk stage, between Bedingfield and Two Door Cinema Club&#8217;s main stage sets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone is so friendly and you couldn&#8217;t ask for more for Ipswich. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It gets us all together, and hopefully the festival will get better and better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Younger brother and drummer Joe Watts, added that they would &#8220;love&#8221; to return next year with the hope of being on the main stage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woodbridge artist Harriet Cree opened the Suffolk Stage, having won a public vote competition to do the honours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the festival is beautiful and they have done an amazing job. It looks proper and doesn&#8217;t look like a first year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On being voted by the public, she said: &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe people voted for me, and I really appreciate it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has really helped me with the feeling of imposter syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Suffolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Front man Ben Watts said he was &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; post show, after headlining the Suffolk stage, between Bedingfield and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674792","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\/674792","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=674792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}