Thank You to everyone who sent us Christmas cards and greetings. We hope you’ve enjoyed the festive season and are looking forward to a great New Year.
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Wickham Festival News
Year: 2023
Wickham Festival 2023 – Day Four
Wickham Festival fans were treated to real rock royalty on the final day of a fantastic four-day event. Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day Four”
Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 3
Wickham Festival fans were blown away – but by the music rather than the forecast gales. Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 3”
Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 2
If you thought the Saw Doctors could not get any better than last year, then think again! Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 2”
Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 1
Even the rain could not dampen spirits on the opening day of the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 1”
Proclaimers cancel due to illness
The Proclaimers have sadly been forced to cancel their show at the Wickham Festival due to illness. Continue reading “Proclaimers cancel due to illness”
Wickham Festival 2023 Arrival Information
The stage is set! The Big Tops are up. All we need now is our audience! If you’re travelling to Wickham this weekend we hope the following information is useful.
For Sat Nav use PO17 5HD. Click here for Google Maps.
All our campsites open from 10am Wednesday. Please do not arrive before 10am as we don’t want to clog up the road network for miles around. On arrival at Wickham please follow the signs for ‘Caravans/Motorhomes Camping’, ‘Tented Camping’, ‘Disabled Camping’ and ‘Mixed Camping’ (for people wishing to camp together in both tents and vehicles). The weather forecast for Wednesday is not great and we’ve already had a lot of rain on our fields so it may take a little longer than usual to position everyone on our camping fields. Please bear with us if you have to wait a little while. Our volunteer stewards will do their best to get everyone in as quickly as possible.
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2023 stage times added to the website
We are pleased to say that performance times for all four stages have now been added to our website and can be viewed in our line up section. We’ve tried our best to avoid clashes between similar artists.
We’re delighted to announce our Late-Night Comedy line-up for this year’s Wickham Music Festival
We’re delighted to confirm that comedy is returning to Wickham Festival for 2023. This will start after music on the main stages finishes at 23.00. Mike Cox will be the MC for all nights on our comedy stage (Thursday through to Saturday). Mike has been performing comedy since 2011 and quickly made his mark on the comedy scene with his sharp-witted observational style which saw him crowned South Coast Comedian of the Year in 2014.
Wickham Festival supporting The Big Walk
The host of the multi-award-winning Folk on Foot podcast, Matthew Bannister, will set off from Wickham Festival on a 180-mile sponsored walk to raise money for the charity Help Musicians. Continue reading “Wickham Festival supporting The Big Walk”
Midge Ure, Afro Celt Sound System, and more added to our 2023 festival line up
It’s just over two months until we open our gates and welcome everyone to Wickham once more. We’ve added Midge Ure, Afro Celt Sound System, Steve Wickham & Ray Coen, Virginia Kettle, and Daisy Chute to our 2023 line up.
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More artists added to our 2023 line up
Since we announced our day line ups last week we’ve added some new artists across the weekend.
Day line up section pages updated
For those of you that have being waiting to buy day tickets, we’ve just updated our line up section day pages. There are a few artists that have not been allocated a day yet, but the majority have all now been updated.
Facebook Posts
We're sorry to report that London Irish band Neck will no longer be appearing at Wickham following the sad death of their frontman Leeson O'Keeffe from pancreatic cancer. 😢https://extra.ie/2024/04/16/entertainment/leeson-okeeffe-dies?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0jxfQ3m60a8rhMDXDd_uQCQ78dtyUm_hu4ODGgbnWTdjK84h7oaiy4CcQ_aem_Ab3xsbuyb9xXCSkVrrwhtKr49bitsElo63xxA040IHSYHw9XKChbeyYotEwyKhGu9zgs83NrC8h5-xjHOFJwIvxR
Leeson O'Keeffe: Irish Rocker Who Played With Shane MacGowan Dies Following Cancer Battle
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Irish rockstar Leeson O'Keeffe, who played with legends such as Shane MacGowan has passed away following a 'short but intense' battle with cancer.
5 days ago
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Saw them at a festival a few years ago. I knew nothing about them. They were brilliant. Will miss them at Wickham. R.i.p
What a loss. Go easy Leeson O'Keefe.
That's sad - condolences to family and friends
It's official! Suzi Quatro's headline show at the Wickham Festival on Friday 2nd August looks set to be her only UK festival appearance this summer. Day & weekend tickets now onsale. www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
www.suziquatro.com/shows.html
3 weeks ago
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Line-up so far with a few names still to add to the artwork including American dobro ace Jerry Douglas and Irish uilleann piper John McSherry
Is the Sunday headliner been announced ?
And the final headline act is ….
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Steve Harley was an audience favourite at Wickham Festival, and a delight to work with. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Steve Harley: Cockney Rebel singer dies at 73
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68590846
The Saw Doctors would like to say a Big Thanks to everybody who has bought or streamed ‘All We Love’ today —the new single is Number 3 in Ireland and No. 23 in the UK. Here’s the link to buy or stream ‘All We Love’
https://orcd.co/allwelove
Wonderfully evocative and typically catchy song from our old friends @sawdoctors ready for #StPatricksDay
Would love to hear them do this at #wickhamfesival one day. Great stuff!
We're delighted to announce that 16-times GRAMMY Award winner Jerry Douglas, one of the world's finest dobro & lap steel guitar players, will be at this year's Wickham Music Festival on Sat. 3rd Aug. Day & Weekend tickets selling fast!
After announcing the great American singer Curtis Stigers for the Wickham Music Festival yesterday we'll be announcing another great American musician this evening (Tuesday). A clue. He's a 14-times Grammy Award winner. Any guesses?
