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Wickham 2011


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Glad to hear it Happy Chef.

Earlybird season tickets for Wickham 2012 are now on sale - please email Wickham Festival for a booking form.

Buy before the end of August and you save a whopping £45 on every adult ticket plus an extra £5 on every camping ticket! :D

The Wickham website is having some maintenance and an upgrade as I type on Sunday morning but should be up-and-running again soon.

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Wickham was pretty good but I wouldn't say it was really child friendly - why not a kids tent where kids activites and entertainers are in one place and out of the hot sun? Some of the timings of kids films were just plain silly. Put them on during to day when the sun is strongest. There just wasn't a lot for kids to do. The EA stall isn't really much of a consolation is it? Check out the arrangement at Trowbridge Festival. Kids can be safely left at the children's tent and they have their own performers to keep them happy. Parents know where to find them or can watch along with their kids - a much better idea. I wouldn't trust my child to walk to the community centre by himself and don't really want to watch all the kids things and miss the bands.

Bands were great but agree about the comments about Bellowhead. Not very inspirational.

Who on earth booked Toyah? What an ego! Seemed worse than she was in the 80's - totally crap.

The Shee were fab as were the Chair and Peatbog Fairies. Rolf and Jules were wonderfully entertaining and really impressed my 8 year old - and Sandy Shaw! Missed Spooky Men as battling tent down in the high wind which was trying to turn it inside out.

The bar was a total shambles with staff texting or phoning when serving customers. I have worked at the bars at Glastonbury and we wouldn't have been allowed to get away with that.

I know Wadsworths let the festival down at the last minute but it was a bit of a pain. Also running out of some beer on the Thursday night? What's that about??

Good to hear the camping field is being grassed. The stubble was a pain - cut our feet and the dust from the stalks brought on a load of hay fever.

This seems like a lot of moans and I'm bound to get some flack - but forums should allow for the good and the bad.

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Forums should indeed allow for the good and the bad... and the good comments about Wickham this year far outweigh the bad!

Obviously 'Witchypoo' (a new member who has never posted on efestivals before) has an axe to grind for some reason but it's a bit ripe to say Wickham wasn't child-friendly when the site is as safe as they come and had a host of child-friendly attractions including a cinema tent, EA Hub, digital funfair, Ticklish Allsorts, Puppet Theatre, Punch & Judy, storytelling, face-painting, Craftscene 'make 'n' take' marquee etc. etc. etc.

Many of the other comments from Witchypoo contradict one another.

Much better to read the unbiased 'efestivals' review of Wickham here:

efestivals Wickham review

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