{"id":790676,"date":"2026-10-03T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790676\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:56:11","slug":"olly-murs-set-to-headline-south-gloucestershire-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/790676\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Murs set to headline South Gloucestershire festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival started in 2022 at Yate Town Football Club after Murden and his brother-in-law, Tom Campbell, came up with the idea following Covid, as a way to encourage social interaction and live events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival moved to Chipping Sodbury in 2025 and has grown rapidly in recent years, with 32,000 people attending last year and headliners including Tom Odell, Madness, Jessie J and Emeli Sand\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murden said he expects 2027 to be the festival&#8217;s &#8220;biggest year&#8221;, with the Olly Murs announcement and having already sold more than half of the allocated tickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the response from the public had been &#8220;overwhelmingly positive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been really humbling. It gives a massive sense of pride when we stand and watch thousands of people jumping up and down, singing along to their favourite artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re really passionate about it and we promise to grow it steadily while still retaining the heart of what the event is supposed to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The festival started in 2022 at Yate Town Football Club after Murden and his brother-in-law, Tom Campbell, came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-790676","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\/790676","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=790676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}