By Graham Hiley. It was a fitting finale as Oysterband closed the Wickham Festival with their last ever appearance at one of their favourite events. For more than a decade the folk rockers have been regulars on the bill at the picturesque setting near Fareham. After announcing they would...
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Review: Wickham Festival day 3 – Leo Sayer, Rob clamp, Merry Hell, Tom Robinson, Richard Thompson
By Graham Hiley. It was a sensational seventies night on the third day of the Wickham Festival – but that had nothing to do with the style of music. All three headliners on the main stage were three-quarters of the way to a century – and all sounded as...
Review: Wickham Festival day 2 – Lucy Spraggan, Newton Faulkner, Fisherman’s Friends
By Graham Hiley. There could hardly have been a wider range of musical styles to round off the second day of the Wickham Festival. If anything emphasised the diversity at this boutique event in the picturesque setting near Fareham it was having the ear-splitting but electrifying Dhol Foundation on...
The Show Must Go On – Leo Sayer finally plays Wickham Festival
Leo Sayer is set to play the Wickham Festival – five years late! The Shoreham-born chart-topper was due to headline the four-day event in 2020, only for it to be cancelled because of Covid. With Sayer now living in Australia, it has been difficult for organisers to fit Wickham...
Wickham Festival move pays off
Photo credit: Striking Faces The Wickham Festival’s switch to a new site has proved to be a huge success. Organisers took the long-standing popular event to a new field a few hundreds yards away in a bid to avoid the mud which proved such a problem last year. And...