Win A Family Weekend Camping Ticket to Wychwood Festival Featuring: Texas, Ocean Colour Scene,Seasick Steve, The Feeling and More!

By Hannah Compton on February 12, 2024 • ( Leave a comment )

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Win a Family Ticket with Camping to Wychwood Festival

WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL – CHELTENHAM RACECOURSE
31st May – 2nd June 2024

We are offering the chance for someone to win a family ticket (two adults, two children) with camping to Wychwood Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse 31st May – 2nd June 2024.

To enter email us here and title the email Wychwood Festival Competition and tell us which act you would like to see the most!

Take a look below for all the information on the festival so far! Wychwood website here

Returning for their 18th year of unforgettable memories for all the family, with a glorious line-up of music, comedy, literature and workshops

TEXAS OCEAN COLOUR SCENE
SEASICK STEVE PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT
LIGHTNING SEEDS THE BOOTLEG BEATLES
THE FEELING THE HOOSIERS DEXY’S STORNOWAY STEREO MCs THE FUTUREHEADS BIG COUNTRY
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE BARRIOKE

SISTER SLEDGE THE CORAL,
CORINNE BAILEY RAE
SETH LAKEMAN
PLUS
CBBC’S HACKER T DOG & KATIE THISTLETON
COMEDIAN SHAZIA MIRZA

PLUS COMEDY LINE-UP AND FAMILY WORKSHOPS

Wychwood festival, reveal their incredible first names for 2024 Bursting with great music, hilarious comedians, 100’s of workshops and a whole selection box of activities to entertain parties of all ages across the weekend!

“”Wychwood has something for everyone” – METRO

“It’s easy to see why Wychwood has notched up consecutive nominations for the best family music festival around” – The i

“Perfect family-friendly festival” – Daily Mirror

Sister Sledge will headline Friday Night. Hailing from Philadelphia, sisters Debbie, Joni, Kathy and Kim became household names and a symbol of unity with their 1979 world-wide hit and iconic album ‘We are Family’. The multi-lead vocal group are responsible for some of the biggest dance anthems of all time. Lost in Music, He’s the Greatest Dancer and Thinking of You are universally cherished songs that bring people together in love, life and soulful groove.

The Coral will join Texas on Saturday. Emerging during the early 2000’s, their eponymously titled 2002 debut album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and listed in the top 5 albums of the year by NME. Their second album, Magic and Medicine produced four UK Top
20 singles, including the festival anthem Pass It On. The band recently released to much critical acclaim, two albums of 60s-soaked psych-folk Sea Of Mirrors and Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show.

Festival favourite Seth Lakeman will be joining the bands on the main stage on Sunday. Celebrating 20 years since the release of Kitty Jay, the album that marked Seth’s pioneering musical journey, bringing folk music to a new, younger audience, paving the way for the brilliant array of folk artists populating the mainstream music space today.

CBBC’s Hacker T Dog & Katie Thistleton will kick Sunday proceedings off on the Main Stage with a chance for meet and greets after the show. The multiple BAFTA award nominated Hacker T Dog is now the longest serving CBBC presenter EVER, having been at the channel for more than 14 years. Now teamed up with BBC Radio 1 host, and former CBBC co-presenter Katie Thistleton, for his first ever DJ show! Fans can expect the biggest party anthems and the greatest children’s television themes of all time, as him and Katie take to the decks

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae completes the Friday main stage music line up. The festival’s new music offering on the revamped Garden Stage for 2024 extends to Lime Garden on Friday night along with local artists Devon and Jo Hill. Melin Meylin & Brogeal join the Sunday line up. Award winning stand up comedian and writer Shazia Mirza, well-known for her appearances on BBC’s Have I Got News For You joins the Friday night late-night comedy line up.

Texas, one of the UK’s most loved bands, will headline Saturday 1st June. Led by front woman Sharleen Spiteri they have produced ten studio albums selling over 40 millions records worldwide and last year released The Very Best Of 1989 – 2023 ahead of their triumphant Glastonbury Pyramid Stage 2023 performance.

Hugely popular, enduring indie favourites, Ocean Colour Scene will headline Sunday 3rd June. They lit up the Britpop party in the mid-90’s chalking up three Top 5 albums and seventeen Top 40 singles including the immortal ‘The River Boat Song’.

Joining Ocean Colour Scene on Sunday, Seasick Steve returns to the UK. Probably best known for conjuring up a primitive blues sound with a variety of ‘cigar box‘ instruments and diddly-bows. And celebrating 35 years of pure joy and over 8 million records sold, Lightning Seeds will take the Sunday sunset slot.

Also performing, The Bootleg Beatles, the world’s premier Beatles tribute band will transform Wychwood’s revellers back to the 1960’s. Described as “less a tribute – more of a reincarnation”

Today Wychwood can also reveal the biggest musical offering in their second stage ‘The Garden’, bringing the hottest new talent and old favourites from across the country, it’s the place to discover the headliners of tomorrow. Including Yorkshire’s post-punk six-piece Deadletter, Dutch indie band Pip Blom and Welsh psych-rock band CVC and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.

Local nature-loving band, Stornoway formed in Oxford in 2005, will headline The Garden on Friday Night with legendary bassist Peter Hook & The Light returning to Wychwood to headline the stage on Saturday night. Celebrating over four decades of the continuing influence of Joy Division and New Order, Peter will no doubt bring one of the festival’s biggest sing-alongs. Plus, hot off the back of 2023’s Top 10 selling album The Feminine Divine, Kevin Rowland’s Dexy’s (formerly Dexy’s Midnight Runners) will close the Sunday night in style.

Also appearing across the weekend, Sussex Ivor Novello winner’s The Feeling, multi-platinum selling pop band The Hoosiers, Sunderland Punk quartet The Futureheads, Scottish powerhouse Callum Beattie and fan favourites Thrill Collins and Mr Motivator will be back for the ultimate main stage Saturday morning workout .

Wychwood can also reveal their fantastic late night comedy line-up for 2024. Jason Neale, Mark Cram, Ester Manito, Andrew White on Friday 31st May. Cerys Nelmes, Burt Williamson, Kate Martin, Roger Monkhouse and headliner, the wonderful Marcus Brigstocke on Saturday 1st June and Chris Brooker, Martin Mor, Pierre Novellie, Alex Kealy and Scott Bennett on Sunday 2nd June.

2024 sees the second year return of the much loved Howlin’ Pete’s venue which houses some of the biggest parties and activities across the weekend. Including the return of the ever popular Barrioke feat Shaun Williamson, NOASIS, Junior Jungle, Hip Hop Karaoke and The Daniel Wakeford Experience.

Wychwood will present more than 100 activities and workshops for families of all ages across the weekend. First wave of announcements include Taskmaster Education brought to you by the team behind Channel 4’s BAFTA winning show of the same name taking elements of the show and uses them to inspire, engage and teach children and young people. Magic Workshops, Squiggles and Doodles with Illustrator Gemma Hastilow, Laughter Yoga, Circus Workshops with Solo Circus, Ola Samba Bateria, Glamba Funky Junk Drumming Workshop, Street Performers, Open Mics and Buskers.

Iain Game, Festival Director of Wychwood Festival, said: “Wychwood continues to go from strength to strength and we’re over the moon Texas will be with us on the Saturday night, this is huge for us. Anyone who has been before knows there’s still so much to share with you all and we’re counting the days until we’re all reunited at Cheltenham Racecourse!”

Now on a new and improved site at Cheltenham Racecourse, Wychwood continues to prove itself as the UK’s premier Family Festival with continuous year on year growth. Early Bird, Tier 1 and Tier 2 tickets have already sold out. Tier 3 tickets start at just £149.50 + bf for Adults and £74.50 for children aged 10 – 15. Children under 10 go free.