{"id":698072,"date":"2026-07-18T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698072\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:03:11","slug":"the-fizz-set-for-gig-in-cheryl-bakers-kent-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698072\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fizz set for gig in Cheryl Baker&#8217;s Kent garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Eurovision-winning singer is to host a gig in her back garden for fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheryl Baker, founding member of Bucks Fizz, who is now in The Fizz, is opening up the gates to the grounds of her home in west Kent for a select few fans for the sell-out gig on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bucks Fizz shot to fame when they secured a victory for the UK at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest with the catchy ditty Making Your Mind Up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baker told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006pfp8\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC South East<\/a>: &#8220;We first did this during lockdown and it was a huge success with fans, so we&#8217;ve done it every year since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;When we first did the gig, we were all spaced out in our own little areas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a big garden. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The line-up of the group has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founding members Cheryl Baker and Jay Aston held public auditions for new singers in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Pateman and Nikk Mager joined them following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Eurovision-winning singer is to host a gig in her back garden for fans. Cheryl Baker, founding member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698072","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\/698072","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=698072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}