Specials star Neville Staple WILL play Godiva after death of grandsonThe Specials star Neville Staple will play at the Godiva Festival this afternoon just a day after his grandson was killed in a knife attack.
His family said the show will go ahead in tribute to 21-year-old Fidel who died in hospital after being stabbed in the stomach near Club M on Saturday morning.
The performance by the Neville Staple Band on the main stage at 4.40pm will also be used to highlight the horror of knife and gun crime.
Mr Staple's wife, Christine, told the BBC: "Our daughter Melanie said she wants us to still do it.
"Neville wants to dedicate the performance to Fidel and we want to do a little bit of highlighting while we are there and use our profile for something good by highlighting just what is going on at the moment with the young people and the things that are happening with knives, and in some cases guns, on our streets.
"Fidel was just so handsome, so sweet, such a charmer, anyone who met him would always say 'he's just so wonderful, what a lovely boy'.
"But he had become a man, he'd reached 21, and he was just lovely, just amazing and I just can't believe he is gone still, I really can't.
"I think we are all still in shock really, we're still quite numb. We did a lot of crying yesterday and a lot of stressing."