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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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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Over the last few weeks we’ve been adding to our line up with some incredible artists to entertain us this summer.  Please follow our Facebook page for the latest updates.  We’ve just announced our main Saturday headliner, Richard Thompson.  Having co-founded the groundbreaking group Fairport Convention as a teenager in the ‘60s, he has gone on to become one of the most influential artists and respected songwriters with numerous accolades to his name.  His song “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Greatest Songs Since 1923.”

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We hope 2025 has got off to a great start for you all. Over the last week we’ve added more artists to our line up and also compiled our day pages. First off legendary Geordie folk-rockers Lindisfarne will headline our Thursday night. So far they are the only confirmed booking for Thursday but we’ve many more in the pipeline. With a repertoire of unforgettable songs and a reputation for live performance second to none, there’s no doubt we’ll be on our feet and singing along on our opening night.

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It’s that time of year again to try and spot yourself in our new gallery. Click here to visit the Wickham Festival 2024 Gallery.  This year we’ve added over 200 images. Do any feature you or people you know?

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With Xmas and the New Year fast approaching 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. With Weekend Earlybird prices rising on January 1st 2025 we are keen to make many more announcements throughout December.

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We’ll update this news post from top (older) to bottom (newer) to tell you our site build story for 2024 on our brand new 28 acres of flat and well-drained grassland. Don’t forget to follow our Facebook page to get the very latest news and more photos. It really is an exciting task having a new site to construct what we think will be a huge improvement to previous years. The weather is looking perfect too, plenty of sun but no heatwave … the ideal weather for a festival.

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We’ve just added stage times for our Quay West, Acoustic, and Twisted Tearooms Stages to our line up page.  These smaller stages are the place to see the very best local artists and the wealth of talented musicians we have right here on our doorstep. Wickham Festival has always been about supporting local artists and promoting our part of the world. 

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Our new Festival fields are looking amazing in this week’s sunshine. If you’re heading to Wickham you’ll love our new site. And if you were put off returning by last year’s rain & mud then do please give us another try… you really will love our new site.

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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.

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