Great News! We’ve secured an extra 28 acres of well-drained, grassed fields with excellent access via a tarmac road running the entire length of the fields meaning that, for the first time, everyone can camp on grass at this year’s Wickham Festival whether you’re in a tent, caravan, camper van, motorhome or any combination of them all. No more stubble! No more mud, hooray!
Continue reading “Our Festival camping just got a whole lot better”
Frank Turner is already looking forward to headlining the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Frank Turner excited to be playing Wickham Festival”
Saturday headliner Frank Turner will be signing copies of his new book at WH Smith in Winchester on Friday March 22 at 12.30pm. Continue reading “Meet Frank Turner at WH Smith Winchester”
Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls have been unveiled as the big Saturday night headline act for Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Frank Turner to headline Wickham Festival”
Rock legend Graham Nash is the latest big name to be confirmed for the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Rock legend Graham Nash plays Wickham Festival”
Please join us for a Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs prior to the opening of Wickham Festival 2019. It will be led by John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers before they play a set later that evening. John Jones is the charismatic lead singer of the award-winning Oysterband who last performed at Wickham in 2017. What a great way to kick off our weekend!
Continue reading “Thursday daytime walk on the beautiful South Downs before the festival starts”
What an incredible night we had at The Portsmouth News Culture Guide Awards winning the “Best Festival” category supported by the ever popular Victorious Festival. The Culture Guide Awards is the night that The Portsmouth News honour the best in local entertainment, from bands to artists and actors to films.
Over the last few days we’ve been busy updating our line up pages to show artists who will be appearing at Wickham Festival 2019. We think this our best line up ever so it’s hard to summise what we’ll be enjoying next summer, but here’s a quick run through of some highlights.
Continue reading “Happy New Year from all the Wickham Festival team”
Today is officially the first day of winter and what better way to cheer yourself up than reminisce about the festival we enjoyed this summer. We had blue sky and sunshine all weekend. To help remind you, we’ve just published our Wickham Festival 2018 Gallery. Thanks again to Guy Reece for managing our team of photographers. As ever it’s the Real Stars of Wickham we enjoy most. Can you spot yourself?
Continue reading “Can you spot yourself in our 2018 festival gallery?”
Our 2019 Wickham Festival dates are Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th August 2019. If you’ve yet to book your ‘earlybird’ weekend season tickets for next year you can still save a whopping £60 on every adult ticket if you book by Friday 31st August via our tickets page. We’ve already sold a record number of ‘earlybird’ tickets for 2019 so please hurry if you’ve yet to book. Prices rise on 1st September.
Continue reading “Last Chance to save £60 on every 2019 adult weekend season ticket”
The Wickham Festival is here to stay! The best event yet has been crowned by the announcement of a two-year deal to stay on the same site. Continue reading “Wickham Festival goes from strength to strength”
The Wickham Festival has been immortalised in song!
Phil “Swill” Odgers from the Men They Couldn’t Hang loves the event so much that he has penned a special tribute. Continue reading “Listen to the Wickham Song from Phil Odgers”
Smiling makes the day go quicker, according to manic rockers Tankus the Henge.
That would explain why the Wickham Festival has flown by! Continue reading “Day 4 – review”
There was a real throwback to the Eighties as a trio of top bands made it party night at the Wickham Festival. Continue reading “Day 3 -review”
What a difference a year makes as Boo Hewerdine finally got his moment in the spotlight. Continue reading “Day 2 – review”
Legendary singer/songwriter Graham Nash of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young talking about he wrote the classic CSNY song 'Teach Your Children'. He'll be at our Wickham Festival on Thursday 1st August along with American folk icon Judy Collins. Have you got your tickets yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngcYc9i2z6EHaving co-founded seminal music groups such as The Hollies and CSNY, Graham Nash knows a thing or two about songcraft. In this video, Nash revisits "Teach Yo...
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I thought it was Stephen Stills who was appearing at Wickham.
Ælfred Hillman
Food, glorious food. We've got our best-ever range of quality food outlets booked for this year's Wickham Festival. All your favourites inc. Paella, Indian, Oriental, Thai, Bunnychow plus some great new vegetarian, vegan & gluten-free options, also a new carvery and a Cheesy Vinyl Bar.
What gluten free options are there ?
Bunnychow was awesome last year. So awesome we’ve had to recreate for friends
Yum yum bunnychow! The best
Bunnychow, paella... Twisted Tea Rooms? Wouldn't be Wickham without it, essential for end-of-the-night tea & cake chill-out.
Will the Cheese on Toast van be there this year?
Carvery! Whoopwhoop.
Hurray hurray!! Can’t wait!!
Looking forward to this again! Will there be facilities to refill our water bottles?
Will the sausage guy be there?
I’m counting down the weeks.
Can’t wait 🥳🥳🥳
Heather Parsons 🤤
Yum 😍
Yum 😍
Cheezy Vinyl Bar , excellent place highly recommended 👍🤟
Paul Brasington
Mmm bunnychow... Was that a a yes to Twisted Tea Rooms?
Matt Shipperly 😋
Fab paella 🥘
When is this?
Wendy Holliday Finn Holliday Maddie Holliday Jack Holliday
Pizza?
You going
Bunnychow!
Pip Charidge cheese!!!!
Less than 3 months to this year's Wickham Festival. Tickets selling fast. Have you got yours yet? Click on this link for line-up & ticket details: www.wickhamfestival.co.uk (Photos courtesy of Dave Horrocks)
No I haven’t got a ticket cos I’m coming to work it . 😀 very excited 😊
Got mine , got mine 🙋♀️ sooh looking forward to it ! Especially now we have a flat grassy field to camp on 😁
Yes have mine. So looking forward to it.
Here's the title track from the new album by 2-times Juno Award winner Old Man Luedecke who'll be appearing at this summer's Wickham Festival on Saturday 3rd August www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XRY2eIuBfE&feature=youtu.beThe title track from the forthcoming new studio album from Old Man Luedecke! Stream the track and Pre - Order Now! http://smarturl.it/oldmaneasymoney
Presenting... Our Late-Night Comedy programme for Wickham 2019 including performers from 'Live at the Apollo', 'I, Daniel Blake' and Peter Kay's 'Phoenix Nights':
Thursday 1 August
Fin Taylor - As seen on Live at the Apollo
Alistair Barrie
James Alderson (MC)
Friday 2 August
Ninia Benjamin
Dave Johns - Star of ‘I, Daniel Blake'
James Alderson (MC)
Saturday 3 August
Ben Norris
Clinton Baptiste - From ‘Peter Kaye’s Phoenix Nights'
James Alderson (MC)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzpAUzE2Zc8Legendary phenomena and pyschic, Clinton Baptiste.
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