{"id":623134,"date":"2026-05-04T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:42:10","slug":"sky-blues-fans-set-to-celebrate-with-coventry-city-at-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/623134\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Blues fans set to celebrate with Coventry City at music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Grennan: &#8216;I am a Coventry City man&#8217;published at 16:03 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:03 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ca8147d3-80fd-4fdf-958d-75a23639270d.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Lorna Bailey<br \/>BBC Coventry and Warwickshire<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tom Grennan is interviewed at the parade in front of a yellow porta cabin. He is wearing a beige waterproof jacket and brown sunglasses.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29b030da-9f40-45f3-b924-25cd5cef83d6.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2016\" height=\"1134\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the park, Tom Grennan has been speaking to BBC CWR and he told us that today&#8217;s gig would mean more to him than others and would be one he would look back on in years to come. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;This is one [gig] that I&#8217;ll look back on and I&#8217;ll think wow &#8211; what a special moment to do this for the city of Coventry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This city has taken me in and called me one of their own, and it doesn&#8217;t ever get better than that. Every time I&#8217;m down here I feel like I&#8217;m from Cov. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My grandma&#8217;s from Cov, so it does run through my blood. I wasn&#8217;t born here, and I wasn&#8217;t brought up here but now that I am a Coventry City man, it&#8217;s just amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Grennan: &#8216;I am a Coventry City man&#8217;published at 16:03 BST 16:03 BST Lorna BaileyBBC Coventry and Warwickshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-623134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}