{"id":730248,"date":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730248\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:54:09","slug":"madness-jls-and-becky-hill-to-headline-canterbury-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/730248\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness, JLS and Becky Hill to headline Canterbury music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About 40,000 people are expected to attend a new music festival in Kent featuring Madness, JLS and Becky Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canterbury Live will take place at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury from Friday to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">JLS are to headline on Friday, with The Wanted 2.0 and Pixie Lott among those to feature across the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Becky Hill and 1970s group Madness are the headliners on Saturday and Sunday respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ella Eyre, The Ordinary Boys and Cast, fresh from touring as part of the Oasis Live 25 celebrations, will also appear across the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival aims to bring people together for an &#8220;unforgettable weekend of live music in a truly special setting&#8221;, a spokesperson for promoter Supermodified said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival will also champion emerging talent through a special collaboration with BBC Introducing in Kent, which will see local artists given the opportunity to perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Follow BBC Kent on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCinKent\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook, external<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadioKent\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X, external<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcinkent\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram, external<\/a> and listen to BBC Radio Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_kent\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Sounds<\/a>. Send your story ideas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/mailto:southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk, external<\/a> or WhatsApp us on 08081 002250.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 40,000 people are expected to attend a new music festival in Kent featuring Madness, JLS and Becky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730248","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\/730248","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=730248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}