{"id":41459,"date":"2024-07-16T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=41459"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T09:51:01","slug":"bbc-news-hits-on-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/bbc-news-hits-on-the-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News: Hits On The Pitch Festival 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp08jgdp070o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp08jgdp070o noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-41460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bbcnews24a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><strong>Stars give music fans &#8216;blast from the past&#8217; at festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of music fans have enjoyed a &#8220;blast from the past&#8221; at a one-day festival celebrating some of the stars of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Pop acts such as Toyah, Haircut 100, Damage and Liberty X took to the stage at Hits On The Pitch at Stockport Rugby Club in Greater Manchester on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The event saw many memorable moments, including singer Chesney Hawkes leading the crowd in a rendition of The Beatles&#8217; Hey Jude, in tribute to England footballer Jude Bellingham before the nation&#8217;s appearance in the Euros 2024 final.<\/p>\n<p>Organiser Paul Taylor said it had been a chance to go &#8220;back to the good old glory days&#8221; and enjoy &#8220;guilty pleasures and forgotten treasures spanning across three unforgettable decades&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp08jgdp070o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BBC News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars give music fans &#8216;blast from the past&#8217; at festival Hundreds of music fans have enjoyed a &#8220;blast from the past&#8221; at a one-day festival celebrating some of the stars of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Pop acts such as Toyah, Haircut 100, Damage and Liberty X took to the stage at Hits On The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3154,27],"tags":[546,3259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41466,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41459\/revisions\/41466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}