Read our day-by-day review of Victorious, featuring the headline acts, newcomers and much more. Friday by Sally Churchward. Main image: Kate Nash by Tom Langford. Victorious boasts the claim to fame of being the UK’s biggest metropolitan festival and this year it was even bigger. While the Friday...
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Wickham Festival has been hailed as a “Triumph over adversity.”
Title image of child in mud: Graham Hiley Body images: Striking Faces While many events across the south were forced to cancel by Storm Antoni last weekend, the popular four-day festival overcame a succession of set-backs. Several days of torrential rain left the fields waterlogged at a time when...
Illness forces the Proclaimers to pull out of the Wickham Festival
The Proclaimers have sadly been forced to cancel their show at the Wickham Festival due to illness. Singer Charlie Reid has lost his voice linked to a perforated ear drum. He has been told to rest by a specialist who has instructed him not to sing this week forcing...
Review: Let’s Rock, Southampton Common, 8 July 2023
Review By: Ian Howie-Lee & Catherine Collins – Photo Credit: Kate Hunter Photography Thousands of revellers once again descended on Southampton Common yesterday for the return of retro ‘80s festival, Let’s Rock, with headline performances from Soft Cell and Boomtown Rats. There were ‘80s costumes and neon galore, and...
Preview: Wickham Festival, Wickham, Thursday 3 – Sunday 6 August 2023
A host of stars are confirmed for Wickham Festival as The Proclaimers, Midge Ure and The Saw Doctors head a star-studded line-up at four-day event. Tickets are selling fast for the ever-popular event in the heart of Hampshire, which runs from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 August, with fans...
One month to go until Buckinghamshire’s biggest festival, PennFest, returns
It’s now just one month until Buckinghamshire’s biggest music festival, PennFest, returns with its most impressive line-up yet – and tickets are selling fast! The two-day festival with optional camping is held in picturesque countryside near the village of Penn Street – just 26 miles from central London, and...
Tickets selling fast for Let’s Rock Southampton
Tickets for Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival are selling fast as the popular ‘80s retro event prepares to transform Southampton Common into sea of neon on Saturday 8 July. Thousands of revellers will descend on the city to dust off their dancing shoes and enjoy a day of gloriously...
Victorious Festival Announces Kids Arena Line-Up
Victorious Festival – the UK’s largest metropolitan festival which takes place from 25 to 27 August on Southsea Common – has announced its exciting line-up of family-friendly entertainment for this year’s Kids Arena. Victorious’ Kids Arena is a mini festival packed with activities to keep families and little ones...
Winchester Hat Fair to go ahead in 2023
Play to the Crowd, the arts and education charity that runs Hat Fair, has announced that Hat Fair 2023 will go ahead this summer, albeit in a smaller way. The charity learnt in November that it would no longer be funded by Arts Council England (ACE) as a National Portfolio Organisation...
Preview: Cowes Fringe Festival, Cowes, Isle of Wight
The quirky and creative are set to collide, as the first-ever dynamic fringe event in Cowes delivers an explosion of art and culture through performances and workshops, from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 May. Hosted in unique venues throughout the town, Cowes Fringe guarantees a memorable weekend extravaganza of...