Earlybird tickets for 2010 local music festivals
A very early announcement of next year’s Fareham & Gosport Easter Folk Festival and Wickham Festival (yes it’s back at Wickham, not Stokes Bay) arrived in my inbox today:
*** Earlybird Season Tickets for 2010 Now On Sale. Big Discounts! See Below ***
Hello!
Firstly, a big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who attended the 2009 Stokes Bay and Gosport & Fareham Easter Festivals. We hope you enjoyed all the great live music.
Please note we have some unclaimed lost property from Stokes Bay. If you lost anything please email us a description and we may be able to reunite you with your property.
2010 Festival Dates & Bargain ‘Earlybird’ Tickets
By popular acclaim, our Summer Festival will be returning to Wickham in 2010.
We staged two very popular and successful festivals there in 2006 & 2007 and we’re delighted to be returning to our attractive rural site on the outskirts of the historic and picturesque village of Wickham near Fareham in the Meon Valley (the locals are delighted we’re returning as well!).Our 2010 Festival dates are:
i) Gosport & Fareham Easter Folk Festival – Thursday April 1 to Sunday April 4, 2010
ii) Wickham Summer Festival – Thursday August 5 to Sunday August 8, 2010
Our new websites will be up-and-running shortly and we’ll email you again soon with news of the first artists booked but, as a ‘taster’, we can say that Kathryn Tickell; Show of Hands; Feast of Fiddles; Martin Simpson; Mawkin Causley; Isambarde and Chris Sherburn & Denny Bartley are already confirmed for Easter while Eliza Carthy; Shooglenifty; Show of Hands (again); The Peatbog Faeries and The Men They Couldn’t Hang are among the first artists pencilled-in for Wickham (with some very big names to follow).
‘Earlybird’ Season Tickets Now On Sale
By popular request we’re putting ‘earlybird’ weekend season tickets on sale now at very attractive bargain prices for those who buy before the end of October.
You can save up to £15 on an adult weekend ticket for Easter and up to £35 on an adult weekend ticket for Wickham plus, if you book for both festivals before the end of October, you can save an extra £5 on each adult ticket for both of them!
Please find a Tickets Booking Form attached. Just download, fill it in and post it with a cheque to The Festivals Office, 51 Russell Street, Gosport, Hampshire PO12 3JD.
We always welcome your feedback on our festivals, and your suggestions for artists we should book next year, so if you’ve any ideas or comments do please email us at eastfest@talk21.com
Thank you for your support. We hope to see you again in 2010.
Best wishes,
The Hampshire Festivals Team
Madness – Carisbrooke Castle
Madness were very good and they played at Carisbrooke Castle for 2 hours from 8.30pm until 10.30pm . We all got there at 6pm and watched the supporting bands. Jo, myself and friends who went from the Club enjoyed the outside venue and danced like loonies to all their famous hits like Baggy Trousers, Night Boat to Cairo. Some drizzle did not dampen the atmosphere and helped to cool us all down as we were so hot dancing!
It was an excellent idea to cycle there as to get there by car or shuttle bus would have been a nightmare due to the access roads being so small.
Getting into the venue was interesting as we discovered that the small print on the reverse of the ticket stated we could not take food or alcoholic drink into the site. So the plums and Cornish Pasties we had to leave outside in one of the panniers or see them thrown in a bin! What a waste!? The flask of coffee was allowable for some reason. We were lucky as managed to get some red in and then sneak in a pasty !!
Going home was a doddle and we cycled to our B&B; the lovely Wheatsheaf pub in the centre of Newport.
On Bank holiday Monday we cycled to Sandown along the flat disused railway track and layed on the beach and swam in the warm sea as was a scorcha!
A great couple of days!
