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First artists announced for Wickham Festival 2026

With December just around the corner it’s that time of year we like to update our line up pages with the bookings we have confirmed so far for next year’s festival. As always Earlybird prices will be rising on January 1st so we are keen to make many more announcements throughout the approaching festive period.

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All our headliners for Wickham Festival 2025!

Would you believe that Wickham Festival starts THIS MONTH.  Yes, that’s right, our opening Thursday evening for 2025 is unusually in July.  That means there’s very little time to secure your tickets.  With sales at record levels, we’re running low in several areas, especially camping tickets. Have you got yours yet? Please book now to avoid disappointment.

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As we move to BST our field was looking lush in the sunshine

With the clocks moving to British Summer Time last Sunday, it can mean only one thing for our team … Wickham Festival is fast approaching.  With that said and the fantastic weather this last week we took the opportunity to have an onsite meeting.  Our field was looking lush in Sunday’s sunshine. Our site management team had a great meeting to plan this year’s Festival with a few changes from last year’s layout including moving our 2nd Big Top to help solve the problem of noise ‘bleed’ between our two main stages.

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Not quite Show of Hands but a pretty good effort by us!

Sadly it’s not going to be a Show of Hands reformation, but Wickham Festival 2025 will delight our many SOH fans.  With them announcing they will no longer tour together, their Full Circle tour marked their final performance before taking an indefinite break. So it will be great to have Steve Knightley, Phil Beer, and long-time bassist collaborator Miranda Sykes all taking to the stage this year!

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    We're delighted to confirm that top Irish band The Saw Doctors will headline the Saturday night (1st Aug.) at our 2026 Wickham Festival. Tickets now onsale www.wickhamfestival.co.uk ... See MoreSee Less

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    We'll be announcing our Saturday night headliner this Friday at 9am. A great live band who many people have asked us to get back. Any guesses? ... See MoreSee Less

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    We are delighted to announce that long-time Wickham favourites @sawdoctors will be headlining Saturday night (August 1). Tickets on sale now http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk

    We will be announcing another major headliner at 9am on Friday. We have had many requests to bring back this great party band who have been popular here for decades. Any guesses?

    Widely recognised as one of the world's greatest guitarists, Australian Tommy Emmanuel will make his Wickham Festival debut on Sun. 2nd Aug. 2026.

    We're delighted to announce that the great American singer & saxophonist CURTIS STIGERS will be returning to Wickham in 2026 on Sun. 2nd Aug. Day & weekend tickets now onsale via http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    We're delighted to announce that The Proclaimers will headline the Sunday night (2nd August) at the 2026 Wickham Festival. Day & Weekend tickets now onsale. http://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets

    Watch out for another headliner announcement this evening... with more to follow in the coming days! Any guesses on who is lined up?