Wickham Festival bosses are grappling with a difficult dilemma – how to improve on near-perfection! The recent four-day event in the picturesque setting near Fareham has been widely hailed as the best yet with four days of unbroken sunshine and fabulous music. But organiser Peter Chegwyn is still looking...
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Review: Wickham Festival Day 3 – including The Saw Doctors
By Graham Hiley The Saw Doctors swapped their beloved N17 for the M27 to treat Wickham Festival fans to another fabulous show. By public demand, the boys from Tuam were headlining here for the third time in five years – and they get better with each visit With such...
Review: Wickham Festival Day 2 – including The Dhol Foundation
By Graham Hiley The second day of the Wickham Festival finished with a Bhang thanks to a stunning show from The Dhol Foundation. Complete with Bhangra dancers, Johnny Kalsi’s band almost blew away the Big Top with their pounding drums. It was energetic, vibrant, colourful, almost hypnotic – and...
Review: Wickham Festival Day 1 – including Red Hot Chili Pipers
By Graham Hiley. The Wickham Festival got off to a sublime start with an eclectic mix of music. The opening day programme reflected the diversity on offer at this popular long-running event in the heart of Hampshire. With sunshine all the way in the run-up, the gates opened on...
Wickham Festival line-up finalised
The Wickham Festival has now confirmed its full line-up with the Saw Doctors, the Proclaimers and the Dhol Foundation as the main headliners, July 30-August 2. American jazz legend Curtis Stigers and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers are making a welcome return along with Ferocious Dog as part of...
Wickham Festival hailed as a triumph
Images: Steve James The 2025 Wickham Festival has been hailed as the best yet after surviving an opening day scare. Organisers were almost forced to cancel or delay the main acts as thunderstorms threatened to force them to close the site on the opening Thursday. There were dozens of...
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...
Lazy Sunday afternoon at The Wickham Festival
By Lewis MacLean The most relaxing day of the week was enhanced by the most relaxing festival in Southern England this weekend. For those not in the know, Wickham festival is renowned for its chill vibes, and you will see people enjoying a wide variety of musical genres at...
Wickham Festival is on the move
The Wickham Festival is moving home – but only a few hundred yards. The popular long-running event is switching to a different site for this year’s event from August 1-4 headlined by rock goddess Suzi Quatro, Curtis Stigers and the Levellers. Winchester City Council have just approved the transfer...