Wildwood Festival - CANCELLED 2015

Wildwood Festival has been cancelled. Organisers made a statement saying,

"After careful consideration the directors of Lowdown Music have decided to call a halt to promoting Wildwood Festival 2015.

The reasons for this are financial in that the directors have sunk every penny into financing the project out of their own pockets, but are no longer in a position to continue without investment funding to secure the headliners we need to improve and secure ticket sales.

Despite a great band line up already in place, ticket sales are flat. In order to continue, headliners are necessary to secure additional funding through sponsorship, but without headliners sponsorship is not forthcoming in the time that we have left between now and the event going live in August 2015. To complete the Catch 22 scenario, headliners are now taking bookings for 2016 not for this year.

Our recently appointed sponsorship and PR agencies understand our ethos and will remain ‘online’ to retain Wildwood as a viable entity going into 2016 and will lead the effort in securing funding as a priority before we try to do this again.

Establishing a new Festival is fraught with challenges, but we believe we have met most of them except for this crucial funding issue. We have completed 3 Safety Advisory Group meetings with East and West Lindsey district councils and their advisory teams. We have made many friends involved in the cultural and artistic heartbeat of our beautiful county.

We believe as do many of our friends & colleagues that Wildwood is a great ‘brand’. We have been complimented on our professionalism and approach and indeed many of our suppliers and professionals have been fully supportive in our efforts in developing a ‘proper’ music festival where music is the key and the circus aspect a distant second.

This has been reflected in the ‘faithful’ who have purchased tickets. To this select club we guarantee that you will be reimbursed as quickly as possible. To our traders who have already sent us deposits for their pitches, we also guarantee that these will be returned to you.

To sum up this has been a very difficult decision to make and we hope that most of you will appreciate that we have given it our best shot. We also hope that you will remain on side in our efforts to stage Wildwood in 2016."

Wildwood Festival is a new festival which will take place at Tupholme Abbey Fields, near Bardney in Lincolnshire from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd August 2015.

Line-up

Headliners to be announced. First acts announced 68-75, Albany Down, The Band From County Hell, Big Boy Bloater and The Limits, The Boners, Chantel McGregor, Charlie Dore, Dead Sea Skulls, Della Grants, Desert Mountain Tribe, Diesel Park West, Duncan Reid & the Big Heads, Eastroad, Elliot Schneider, Federal Charm, Matlock, Phantom & Slick, Honey Ryder, John E Vistic, Lily Gaskell, Long John Laundry, Lucy Kitt, Maker, Malf, Medicine Head, The Moth Lantern, Nashville Teens, Nick and The Sun Machine, Pearl Handled Revolver, Rat Face Lewey, Rattlesnake Hearts, Reagan Browne, The Rebelles, The Room, Rosco Levee & the Southern Slide, rumHoney, Shoot the Preacher, Slam Cartel, Steve Conte (New York Dolls), Stone River, Taurus Trakker, Tess of the Circle, and Tom Moriarty.

Tickets

Weekend camping
Adult £125
Young Person (aged 6 to 17 years) £100
Child £0

Weekend non camping
Adult £100
Young Person £75
Child £0

Day tickets
Adult £55
Young Person £45
Child £0

Day tickets for disabled guests
Adult £50
Young Person £40
Child £0

Car Park Passes £10

Camper Van Pass £80 (every occupant must first purchase their weekend non-camping ticket, then a Camper Van pass should be purchased by the driver/owner as an add-on.)

Getting there

Lincoln Station is the nearest station to the festival site, about 10 miles, with regular trains from London, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham and more. Shuttle buses will be in operation from Lincoln Station; there will be a pre-booking facility in operation to ensure that everyone gets a seat! Taxis are available from Lincoln station..

More information will be here when available.

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