What a weekend!
With another Wickham Festival behind us, we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us in Hampshire for Wickham Festival 2026. Whether you’ve been coming to Wickham for years or this was your first visit, it was wonderful to see so many smiling faces enjoying four days of fantastic live music, entertainment and festival fun.
Of course, Wickham Festival wouldn’t be possible without the enormous number of people who work behind the scenes. A heartfelt thank you goes to all our traders, stewards and volunteers, along with our production and site teams and everyone else who works so hard to turn a Hampshire field into Wickham Festival each summer.
It’s the people who make Wickham what it is – and we’re enormously grateful to every one of you.
Re-live Wickham Festival 2026
The festival may be over, but fortunately there are plenty of ways to relive some of those wonderful moments.
A special thank you goes to our official Festival videographer Stuart Barry, who has been busy publishing performances from this year’s festival on his YouTube channel. There are some fantastic videos featuring artists from across the weekend, so it’s well worth having a look if you’d like to experience some of your favourite performances again.
We’d also like to thank Gosport Drones, who captured some spectacular aerial footage of the festival. Seeing Wickham from the skies really shows the scale of the event and provides a completely different perspective on our little corner of the Hampshire countryside.
And, of course, a huge thank you to our brilliant team of festival photographers, who were busy throughout the weekend capturing the artists, audiences and atmosphere.
We’ll soon be publishing our Wickham Festival 2026 Photo Gallery, featuring some of their favourite images from across the four days.
Watch this space!
“More Than Just the Music”
We’ve also thoroughly enjoyed reading the reviews and articles that have appeared since the festival, and we’d like to thank everyone who has taken the time to write about Wickham, post photographs, share videos or simply tell others about their weekend.
A special mention must go to Bryan Stanislas, Founder and Editor of Music Scene Magazine, who immersed himself in Wickham Festival this year and produced a whole series of articles. Music Scene Magazine is a live music magazine and Gig Calendar dedicated to real gigs, real bands, and real stories. Please check out their website.
Bryan didn’t just review the bands. He came behind the scenes while the festival was still being built, explored the site, met our volunteers and traders, reviewed the music and even interviewed my good self.
Perhaps the most pleasing aspect of his coverage was the recurring theme running through it all. What stood out to him wasn’t simply the music or the headline artists, but the friendliness, warmth and sense of community that surrounds Wickham Festival.
From the volunteers welcoming people onto the site to the way artists, traders, crew and festival-goers mix together, his articles captured something we’ve always believed is at the heart of our festival. Wickham is certainly about great live music – but it’s also about the people you meet, discovering an artist you’ve never heard before, making new friends and simply enjoying four days in a relaxed and welcoming environment.
We couldn’t have put it better ourselves. This was Bryan’s final article on Wickham Festival 2026 which has further article links at the bottom:
Wickham Festival through the Eyes of a Festival-Goer
Wickham Festival 2027 – Earlybird Deadline Extended!
And now it’s time to start looking forward!
Wickham Festival returns from Thursday 29th July to Sunday 1st August 2027, and we’re delighted that so many of you have already booked to join us again.
In fact, 2027 weekend tickets have been selling like hotcakes ever since this year’s festival finished.
Our Tier 1 Earlybird prices were due to increase already, but we know many people have been away at other festivals or enjoying their summer holidays. We’ve therefore extended our Tier 1 Earlybird deadline until the end of August.
Click here to visit our tickets page.
That means there’s still time to make a substantial saving:
Save £100 on every 4-day Adult Weekend Ticket when you book now.
At the current Earlybird price, that works out at just £45 per day for four days of live music and entertainment – with no additional booking fees.
There’s also a £50 saving on Under-16 Weekend Tickets, while we’ve frozen the prices of camping, electric hook-ups and Backstage VIP tickets at 2026 levels.
But please don’t leave it too late. Prices will rise at the end of August.
Why Booking Early Really Matters
Early ticket sales have always been important to independent festivals, but right now they matter more than ever.
These are challenging times for small and independent festivals across the UK. The cost of staging events has risen enormously in recent years, with increases in everything from infrastructure, power and security to artists, transport and production.
Following the disruption caused by Covid and the subsequent cost-of-living crisis, many festivals have struggled to recover. Dozens of UK events have been cancelled or postponed, and there are growing calls within the industry for Government support, including a reduction in VAT on festival ticket sales.
This story on Channel 4 news discusses some of the pressures facing UK festivals and why so many much-loved independent events are finding it increasingly difficult to survive.
When you buy your ticket early, you’re not simply getting the best possible price, you’re also genuinely helping us plan for our 2027 event!
And you get to save £100 in the process!
What About the Wickham Festival 2027 Line-up?
We’re already working on it!
The first artists for Wickham Festival 2027 are starting to be booked and we’ll be announcing our first names shortly.
As always, we’d also love to hear who you’d like to see at Wickham next year. Artist suggestions and other ideas for improving the festival are always welcome.
And yes… we already know about the toilets!
They weren’t as good as usual this year and we apologise for that. We’re already looking at how we can improve the facilities for 2027.
Lost Something at Wickham?
We still have a quantity of lost property from this year’s festival, including a mobile phone and numerous pairs of spectacles and sunglasses.
If you lost something at Wickham Festival 2026 and haven’t already contacted us, please email eastfest@talk21.com and we’ll do our best to reunite you with it.
See You in 2027!
Finally, we’d just like to say thank you once again.
Thank you to the artists who entertained us, the traders who fed and watered us, the stewards and volunteers who looked after everyone, the photographers and videographers who captured the memories – and most importantly, thank you to every single person who bought a ticket and came to Wickham Festival 2026.
You are what makes Wickham Festival possible.
We hope you went home with some wonderful memories – and we very much hope we’ll see you back in our Hampshire fields from Thursday 29th July to Sunday 1st August 2027.
Tier 1 Earlybird tickets are available until the end of August. Book now, save £100 on an Adult Weekend Ticket and help us make Wickham Festival 2027 another weekend to remember.
