{"id":675136,"date":"2026-07-05T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:30:09","slug":"tom-grennan-proud-to-sing-in-beautiful-bedford-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/675136\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Grennan proud to sing in &#8216;beautiful Bedford&#8217; homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alfie, 10, was attending his first gig with his mum and dad, Lisa and Kevin, all from Luton.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He got the chance to meet Grennan backstage, describing it as an &#8220;absolutely incredible&#8221; experience.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by the singer what he was looking forward to he agreed it was the &#8220;energy&#8221; of the gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two even also discussed England&#8217;s chances at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alfie told Grennan &#8220;I&#8217;m not very confident with Mexico,&#8221; with Grennan agreeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The singer added: &#8220;But you know what, whatever happens, we&#8217;ll still scream and we&#8217;ll still shout won&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grennan also told the youngster he had never been a Luton Town supporter despite having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/football\/47305895\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously played for them<\/a>, saying he was actually a Coventry City fan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alfie, 10, was attending his first gig with his mum and dad, Lisa and Kevin, all from Luton.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675136","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\/675136","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=675136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}