Phew, what a scorcher we just had! A huge THANK YOU to everyone that attended Wickham Festival 2022. This year was probably our best ever, thanks in no small part to four days of glorious sunshine. There was hardly a cloud in sight for the whole weekend … so much better than last year’s rain and mud! Continue reading “Thank You & 2023 Earlybird Tickets”
Wickham Festival News
Author: Peter Chegwyn
Tips for arrival and our new site layout
With glorious weather forecast all weekend, this year’s Wickham Festival is set to be one of our best ever! We look forward to welcoming you this Thursday and hope you enjoy a wonderful weekend of magical music in beautiful scenic surroundings on our newly grassed fields. We hope you have a safe journey! Please note the following travel tips…
Two festivals for the price of one!
Wickham Music Festival 2022 is just days away but before then, on the Wednesday and Thursday daytime, our festival site is also being used for an exciting new Ideas Festival.
Stage times for this year’s Wickham Festival (Main Stages 1 & 2)
Now that it’s less than 2 weeks until we open our gates for Wickham Festival 2022 things sure are getting exciting … and busy for the team! Yesterday we posted our stage times on our social feeds and they have just been published to our Line Up pages.
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The Saw Doctors to headline Wickham Music Festival 2022
The Saw Doctors will celebrate 30 years of touring the UK on August 5th when they play an EXCLUSIVE summer show at Wickham Music Festival.
The Saw Doctors will celebrate thirty years of touring the UK this summer when the Galway band play an exclusive UK festival show at the Wickham Festival in Hampshire on Friday August 5th.
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Artists added to our Saturday and Sunday line up
We’ve just added new artist to our Saturday and Sunday pages. As ever there are diverse acts appearing throughout the weekend.
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A very merry Xmas to you all … can you spot yourself in this year’s gallery?
All involved with Wickham Festival would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy & Healthy New Year. 2021 has been a tough year for many people. Let’s hope 2022 is better for us all. There’s been no rest for the Wickham Festival elves this last week. If you’ve been following our social channels, you’ll see we’ve added several new artists to our line up. Here’s a quick recap of new pages added to our website.
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Presenting our Wickham Festival 2022 Line Up so far
For the last month we’ve been posting on our Facebook & Twitter channels the artists that we’ve booked for Wickham Festival 2022 so far. We finally felt we’ve now got enough acts to update our line pages. Wickham Festival 2022 will be staged from Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th August 2022 on our newly grassed arena field … no more straw stubble! We’ll be returning to our normal site layout next year with two Big Tops and all our usual attractions on a more compact site than in 2021.
Continue reading “Presenting our Wickham Festival 2022 Line Up so far”
Our 2021 site build has begun!
With less than a week to go it’s nearly time to welcome you all back to Wickham Festival 2021. We’ll have great music and comedy, bars and food stalls, crafts, workshops and classes … it’s going to be a great year. We can’t wait!!!
Fairport Convention for Wickham Festival
Good news & bad news on artists appearing at next month’s Wickham Festival.
Sadly The Waterboys; Lil’ Jimmy Reed; The Slambovian Circus of Dreams; and Gaz Brookfield have all had to cancel due to COVID travel restrictions on artists from overseas and resulting UK tour cancellations.
All these artists are already re-booked for Wickham 2022. If you have Sunday day tickets for this year’s Festival you can either still attend or rollover your Sunday tickets to 2022. The Waterboys will now be appearing on Sunday 7th August 2022.
Last Chance to save £40 on Wickham Festival Tickets
With the sad news of two other festivals (WOMAD & Cropredy) being cancelled today we want to reassure you that Wickham is still going ahead as planned… even if the Government delay Step 4 of their roadmap out of lockdown on July 19. Continue reading “Last Chance to save £40 on Wickham Festival Tickets”
Late Night Comedy at Wickham Festival 2021
We’ve just updated our Late Night Comedy page within the Line Up section. This Late Night Comedy will take place in the Quay West Cave tent from 23.30 after music on the main stages finishes at 23.00. There’s also late-night storytelling and other entertainment until the arena closes at 01.00.
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Last 400 Season Tickets on sale
Thank you to everyone who’s already bought tickets for this year’s Wickham Festival. We really appreciate your support. We now have less than 400 weekend season tickets still to sell. Day tickets are also selling fast. If you’ve yet to buy yours, please don’t leave it too late. You can still save £40 on every adult weekend ticket if you buy now via our tickets page.
Wickham Festival 2021 T-shirts on sale today
We’re happy to say that you’re now able to purchase Wickham Festival 2021 T-shirts online in preparation for the summer.
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Half price tickets for NHS Staff
To show our gratitude to all NHS staff we’re offering them half price tickets. They’ve just gone on sale this morning on our tickets page. If purchasing these tickets please bring your NHS Photo ID with you to the Festival.
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Nice write-up in The Portsmouth News: www.portsmouth.co.uk/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/wickham-festival-offering-big-discount-early...
Wickham Festival offering big discount early bird tickets for 2023
www.portsmouth.co.uk
FOLLOWING a successful outing earlier this month, the organisers of Wickham Festival have announced big discounts for music lovers who buy tickets now for next year’s event.I enjoyed the festival, and it was very well run, however I had our tickets cheap. I would not pay £250 inc camping, it's not worth the price.
The men they couldn’t hang n swill better be back then I’m on
I will now plan to be back for Wickham next year
Please sell evening tickets! ✌️🙏
What's this bird thing you speak off?
hey! when are the 2023 performers applicatins will open? :)
Sent my cheque. Heard nothing yet. Confirmations soon? 😁
Hi I’ve bought 3x early bird tickets £420 . Your selling them for £130 each. £390. Have I been had. ?
Kerry Singleton
Presenting our official Wickham Festival 2022 video produced by Tim Bearder. Enjoy! 😃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MRJHri1tw
Thank you to Peter Chegwyn and the whole team for putting on another great festival. For me, my favourite acts were: Grace Petrie, Spooky Men, Dhol Foundation plus Johnny Kalsi DJ set, Saw Doctors (unexpectedly good – never seen them before), Longest Johns – got to have them back again! Bar Steward Sons of Val Doonican, Lil’ Jimmy Reed, Show of Hands, Slambovian Circus of Dreams – probably the most outstanding and surprising band of the whole festival! For the future – all of the above will be great to welcome back. And Frank Turner if you can get him again, Boo Hewerdine – with a band, with someone else, or even on his own. Always good value. And how about David Ford? I don’t think he has been before but would love to see him. And a huge thank you to Steve Knightly and all who helped to put together the Song for Wickham. It was beautiful and very moving. A real anthem for the village and lovely for the whole audience to join in with.
It was great ! but it is now so big it needs a real open air stage !! was cramed into those marqee,s watching bands !! real stage next years PLEASE !!
Scott Doonican You made it into the video ... 🙂 Thanks, Wickham Festival team, it was a blast, cannot wait till next year ... ❤
A week on and still buzzing! Discovered the The Saw Doctors and can’t get the N17 ear worm outta my head 😂😂
Helen Coppock
Cracking short video but Wickham Festival you are so much more than this!! A taster but you have to be there to feel the unique vibe!!
Just back from dog friendly Cropredy .Guess what not a single person was killed by dog. Cmon Wickham you know dogs are better than people !!
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. One of the most popular bands at this year's Wickham Festival. Thanks to Stuart Barry for a great live video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtjfMwpvXlQ
My new favourite band! Saw them at Cropredy this weekend too. I then bumped into Sharkey and RJ on the field yesterday, they were enjoying the festval, and they spoke very highly of their experience at Wickham too.
My discovery of the festival. They are absolutely brilliant, totally got me (and the lady wife!).
Absolutely brilliant. Hill Billy Pink Floyd. Please invite them back.
Not even heard of this band, but am now following them,great performance ,definately one of my highlights x
Great band, one of many highlights 👍🤘
I couldn't decide what I made of them I initially. Then after three or four songs I think I decided I liked them. They were perplexing 😁. But overall, yeah..... pretty good. I'd definitely watch them again 👍
Tans Slambovian bio polar express 😀
Brilliant really loved their sound
Loved them at Wickham. Once I find out where Slambovia is I'm going to pay a visit 😉
Enjoyed their set but it was loud!
Great band
They were fantastic 👍
Love them xx
Matt John these are the guys I was telling you about 😁
Vanessa Sherlock x
Don't forget you can save a whopping £100 on every 4-day adult weekend season ticket for Wickham 2023 by printing the form below and returning it with cash or cheque to the address on the form. 2023 tickets also onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
Purchased ours this eve online. Last time we were there was in 2015 when Billy Bragg and the Proclaimers were there. Loved every minute of it. So excited for 2023 🤗
We managed to find a cheque book!! Sent ours off already!! Can’t wait!!
What's a cheque? I know a few Poles and a Ukrainian but not these cheques? I can PayPal or Google pay
Found my cheque book, the last cheque I wrote was also for Wickham. And the one previous!
Bought before we left the site!
Ours is in the post
Got mine before I left. Can’t wait!
Who has a cheque book these days and I certainly wouldn’t post cash. Shame 😞
Posted ours off already!
Sent ours off yesterday 😉
Posted ours 👍
Sent ours off pronto 💚👏👏👏🎶
Sent mine off yesterday.
Mine is in the post
Cheque on way!
Sandy Gunton please xx
Michael Tindal-Vincent Not bad considering your just around the corner 😉
And we're off! Site completely cleared in 4 days. Now back to its natural state of very parched grass. But, oh, what wonderful memories we have of our best-ever Wickham Festival. Thank you one and all. We'll do it all again next year, Aug. 3-6. 'Earlybird' tickets now onsale via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
Should add that not a speck of litter was left behind thanks to Smudger's amazing litter-picking crew.
It was fantastic and no trouble at all and I live right across from it! Well done to all of you, look forward to next year x
I walked past yesterday. We love having such a great festival within walking distance of our house and also nice to see it back to normal.
Thanks for all the effort you put in. Much appreciated 🙏 it wouldn't be here without your good self taking the time to stage it. Great times and memories. Fortunate to see both sides of the festival
Was great fun. Thank you. Tickets bought for next year already.
Really enjoyed and have purchased my early bird tickets for 2023 👌👌
Well done Wickham gang!!! At least you don't have to contend with discarded tents etc as per Glastonbury!
Thank you for another brilliant festival,have already purchased tickets for next year. xx
Was great thanks to all who make this festival work so well
Absolutely loved it. First time we've been. Great bands, especially the Saw Doctors, but I'm a little biased, and everything was so well organised, including the weather 😆
A wonderful weekend, thank you everyone so much. You were all amazing.
Amazing weekend thanks for the fun, laughter and music
Thanks to all involved. Loved our tent neighbours who were litter pickers from aardvark. Cheque in post for 2023. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!
The breakdown is the hard bit - adrenaline doesn't pump in quite the same way as on build-up. But four days.... wow!!! Get some serious Zzzzs.
It was brilliant, saw lots of old friends and made more new one,see you next year.
Thanks so much everyone who made Wickham Festival a fantastic Event to attend see you all next year ! x
What a fantastic festival - looking forward to next year with Claire Hartt-Palmer, Paul Jerome, Alison Jerome, Deanna Gaze, Mark Gaze and many others!
Thank you Wickham, thank you artistes, See you next year
Brilliant! Well done to everyone - it was an amazing weekend! Do you have a list of any ‘left behind’ items? One of my friends lost a bunch of keys and would love to be reunited with them!!
Great festival. Thanks for all your hard work.
Fabulous festival, thanks very much! 👏👏👏 Look forward to it next year! 😀😀😀
So much happiness right there ❤️ Next year…
Very impressed with the infrastructure of the show. Such hard work by all. If I have one complaint, it's that the portaloos in the campervan field weren't replenished with paper and sanitizer as often as I was told. I had my own facilities but occasionally used the public ones and took my own supplies. Just a thought.
Thank you for another fab weekend 😊
One word…… AMAZING…. Booked for next year!!
