It’s only 10 days to go until this year’s Wickham Festival! We are pleased to say that all performance times on both our main stages have now been added to our website over the weekend and can be viewed in our line up section.
Continue reading “Stage Times have just been announced for our two main stages”
We’re delighted to say that our late night comedy is returning to Wickham Festival this summer from Thursday through to Saturday. The comedy will start 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.
Continue reading “Late Night Comedy line up for 2024 has been announced”
Great news! In the last few days, the Premises Licence for our wonderful new Festival site has been approved by Winchester City Council. We now have 28 acres of flat and well-drained grassland for our arena with much better pedestrian and vehicle access than ever before. No more long walks from campsites to arena. No more slippery slopes to negotiate. And hopefully no more mud! Our new arena field is so much better in every way. These photos taken last week show how lovely our new arena field is.
Continue reading “Our new arena field gets the green light!”
It’s been a busy and productive fortnight at Wickham HQ with 10 new bookings confirmed since we announced the legendary Suzi Quatro will be headlining our Friday night. She will be joined on Friday 2nd August by Ranagri, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, Sarah Smout, and The Longest Johns. This will be a Wickham debut for the award-winning English/Irish folk band Ranagri.
Continue reading “It’s bookings galore across our 2024 weekend!”
Drum roll please … the iconic Suzi Quatro will be headlining Wickham Festival on Friday 2nd August 2023. We really are over the moon to welcome Suzi and her fantastic band to the Wickham stage. We’re sure this will be one to remember!
Her huge hit, Can the Can went to number one in May 1973, and then go on to sell two and a half million copies worldwide.
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By popular request, one of Britain’s top festival bands Levellers will be returning to Wickham to headline the Saturday night at our 2024 Wickham Festival (Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th August 2024).
Also newly confirmed are the award-winning West Country folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman and another fantastic festival band Ferocious Dog who’ll be appearing on Saturday 3rd August, the same night as Levellers.
We have just update our Line Up pages. There are many more artists currently awaiting confirmation including a great American singer & musician; two of Scotland’s finest Celtic bands; and, hopefully, a young Irish country blues singer and guitarist who was THE star of Jools Holland’s TV Hootenanny on New Year’s Eve. Any guesses?
Continue reading “Levellers, Seth Lakeman & Ferocious Dog for Wickham 2024”
It’s that time of year again to try and spot yourself in our new gallery. Click here to visit the Wickham Festival 2023 Gallery.
Continue reading “Can you spot yourself in our 2023 gallery?”
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.
Continue reading “Happy New Year from all the Wickham Festival team”
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 fans were blown away – but by the music rather than the forecast gales. Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 3”
If you thought the Saw Doctors could not get any better than last year, then think again! Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 2”
Even the rain could not dampen spirits on the opening day of the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 – Day 1”
The Proclaimers have sadly been forced to cancel their show at the Wickham Festival due to illness. Continue reading “Proclaimers cancel due to illness”
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.
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.
Continue reading “Wickham Festival 2023 Arrival Information”
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.
Less than 1 week to go! 1st-4th Aug. www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
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Can’t wait! I’m coming from the U.S. 🥰
What a shame, Seth Lakeman and Suzie Quatro clashing!
Just digging our camping gear out in preparation!
Just one week to go! Both our main Big Tops are up as is our security fencing. Our site team will be busy today as cabins, toilets and other infrastructure starts to arrive. It's going to be a great Festival on our lovely new arena field. Have you got your tickets yet? www.wickhamfestival.co.uk
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Yes, as others have said, a site plan would be good even if things have to change at the last minute. So the Big Tops are on the west of the Wickham to Waltham Chase road this year. Where is the camping in relation to the Big Top field? Is it the other side of the main road? Surely not.
Does excited happy dance 🕺, wanders off to pack, sun cream, waterproofs, sun dress, thermals, sandals, wellies... having done Wickham in all weather's I just know the music and site will be AMAZING whatever the british weather throws at us. Thank you. Xx
Can we arrive on the Wednesday?
With a little over a week until #WickhamFestival 2024, get in the mood by listening to exclusive backstage interviews from last year:
It’s not long until @festivalwickham, and we will be firing up the grill once again to serve delicious breakfasts for the happy campers in our field 🥓🍳
Breakfast will be served daily, from Thursday to Monday, from 7am! 😋
Wickham History Walks are back for 2024! Just £5 for a one and a half hour stroll around the village with a local history guide.
Stage times for our two main stages are now available: https://www.wickhamfestival.co.uk/line-up/
This year sees the return of the SIGNED GUITAR RAFFLE, raising money for @GeorgesRockstar!
The guitar, kindly donated by @PalmBayGuitars, will be signed by a number of artists appearing at #WickhamFestival 2024.
For more info and tickets, visit https://georgesrockstars.com/wickham/
