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”
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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.
Can you spot yourself in our 2022 gallery?
We hope you’ve all enjoyed a great Xmas with family and friends this last week. We’ve just published our Wickham Festival 2022 gallery and hope that some of you can spot a familiar face or two amongst the 190 pictures we captured this year. Whilst we have many images of the artists that appeared this year, it’s always the “The Real Stars of Wickham” ones we love the most. We believe these capture what is so different about Wickham Festival.
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Thank You & 2023 Earlybird Tickets
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”
Win a guitar signed by Wickham Festival stars
How would you like to win a guitar signed by many of the big names at the Wickham Festival – and help a good cause into the bargain? Continue reading “Win a guitar signed by Wickham Festival stars”
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Newly confirmed. 3 Daft Monkeys will be at our 2024 Wickham Festival on Fri., Aug. 2. Other bands already confirmed inc. Tankus the Henge; Skipinnish; & The Men They Couldn't Hang. More to be announced shortly. www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
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Great so far! Please get Tide Lines back!
Awesome!!! Got my ticket months ago, so am so excited!! xx
Excellent!
Excellent 🤘🤘
Brilliant band! 😊
Happy days!
Yay 😃
Can’t wait to volunteer again 😊
This just gets better and better. When are you going to announce the Second Coming of Warren Zevon, who will be headlining on Sunday !!!!!! Four acts announced, albums by three in my collection......That's what makes Wickham such a wonderful festival and the musical highlight of my year......!!
Yusss!
Can’t wait
Can we have the SAS band and Alabama 3 back please 🙏
Another fantastic band! Thank you 🙂
excellent news three daft monkeys
Yessss, excellent, one of my favourites😁
Great craic are those 3 Daft Monkeys.
Fab line up already… add Alabama 3 please!!!! 😎❤️
So happy that 3 Daft Monkeys Are at Wickham next year. They were awesome at South Petherton earlier this year 😊
Megan James Astrid must be thrilled with the line up so far for Wickham! All her favs x
Dammit Actb Smith looks like I’ll be missing a great lineup next year. Bet you’re glad you got early tickets now!
3 Daft Monkeys!! Can't wait
How long are the Early Bird tickets on for? I'm trying to round up several others but I don't want to miss out while others dither Wickham Music Festival
Brilliant festival Wickham Music Festival
Brilliant 😍
Not excited yet....
Pleased to confirm that The Men They Couldn't Hang will be back at Wickham in 2024 as part of their 40th anniversary celebrations. Always a great live band.
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Great news!!👏👏👏👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I would appreciate Graham Nash again, sadly never got to see him in 2018, but completely understand if he’s out of budget
Excellent news! My favourite band and my favourite festival!
Great stuff !!! Thanks !! Pamela Horrigan
Great news!
Great live act well done
Thats just great news !!!!
Always a good slot!
🙌
Fantastic - very much looking forward to seeing them
Which night are they playing ?
Great 😊
YAY - thank you Wickham Music Festival 🥰
Simon Tremlett ..this year we are going !
Deirdre Arthur
Excellent. Have booked for the Shepherd's Bush Gala night and for Barnoldswick but you just can't have too much of a great thing......Must say, it's all going rather well for Wickham 2024, but then we KNEW it would! What delights are to be revealed in the coming days, I wonder...??
Woo hoo!
Yay!!!
Tmtch and tankus? Looking like its going to be a great year so far
Any more confirmed yet?
Ooh amazing news.
Yay. Well happy.
Steven C Turner
Nice!
Finn Murphy McSweggan
Delighted to announce that top Scottish band Skipinnish are newly confirmed for the 2024 Wickham Festival on Sat. 3 Aug. Same day as Tankus the Henge. Lots more artists being announced this week. Earlybird tickets still available via www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/tickets
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCuw59ND78
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Hurrah. My favourite
Superb. One of my absolute favourites......Thanks Peter and Team! Starting to drool already.....
Saw them at the Brook last month and now looking g forward to seeing g them again at Wickham 🥳
Please consider Robert Plants Saving Grace, his latest project which is very folk based.
Seen in East London. We've booked Ronnie Lane's band Slim Chance several times. They're great! Have you any photos of other roads named after musicians?
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Here's another. Heinz Burt Close in Eastleigh. Named after Heinz, the former bass player of The Tornados (famed for their hit Telstar)
Not named after me as such, but I’ve dj’d the silent disco the last 2 years for Bug Beats Events at the Wickham Music Festival! 🤣🤣
There's Charles Watts Way at Hedge end of course
Hi Pete. Did you see my email. Croft No 5 have reformed!! 😊
I saw Ronnie Lane’s Slim Chance in 1976 in the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm. What a great band.
Marylebone, London
As part of the 'other festival' in Pilton you will find a new road Maggies Farm, not a band member but of course from Bobs tune.
How come? 😉
OK - I need to get out more! Here’s a little something to fulfil the request!
Ash Smither
Can't remember where this was now but great name 🤭
Of course its Swansea so it may be the Welsh Dylan
Spotted this in Partinico, Sicily.
In his home town of Paisley.
Not a road name, but Billy Bragg Bicycles sign in Gillingham is one I remember from childhood. Obviously not that Billy Bragg!
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The Burry Man! ❤️
