We are very pleased to announce our headliners are the amazing Fickle Friends – the hugely popular 80’s style synth pop band, originally from Brighton are signed to Polydor Records and have huge support from BBC Radio One.
Supporting Fickle Friends we have a fantastic line up which includes the Brilliant “The Big Moon” whose debut Album “The 4th Dimension” was nominated for last years Mercury Music Prize. Last week they won the prestigious award of “Best Video” at the NME Awards.
Laurel is a critically acclaimed 22 year old singer song-writer, originally from Southampton, who has been picking up support from Radio 1, 6 Music & Beats 1 – she was Apple Music’s very first “New Artist of the Week”.
Wildwood Kin’s extraordinary debut album entered the top 40 before their Glastonbury performance was featured on the BBC’s festival highlights 2017.
With further support from Orchards, Swimming Girls, and returning by popular demand we have Richard Morris & Tom Millichamp.
With our new “second stage” introducing the very best in up and coming bands from Winchester, Hampshire & beyond we will be showcasing new and exciting bands including Cassava, Arcade Hearts, Costellos, The Collision, Me and the Moon, Hooli, Wren & Frankie Knight.
In association with Winchester Comedy Festival
Seann Walsh
Charming and charismatic, a natural motor-mouth, Brighton’s Seann Walsh is the most frighteningly precocious talent to emerge from the UK comedy circuit in ages.
Within two years of his first comedy performance in 2007, Seann became the winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. Shortly after, other accolades included Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Nominee 2010 and Chortle Best Compere Nominee 2011.
‘Unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation’ – The Guardian
‘… with the looks, gags and charm to become something quite special, Walsh is this generation’s Dylan Moran’ – Time Out
‘A solid gagsmith with a disarming presence’ – The Independent
Paul McCaffrey
Winchester’s own Paul McCaffrey is Star of Impractical Jokers (BBC Three), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), 50 Funniest (Channel 4) and The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC).
Paul is an award-winning comedian (Latitude New Act of the Year, London Paper New Act of the Year) and headlines at the biggest comedy clubs in the country. He has performed four critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows as well as major music festivals: Reading, Leeds, V Festival, Bestival and Latitude.
‘McCaffrey simply has funny bones’ – The Shortlist
‘Born to be a Comic’ – The Scotsman
‘The relaxed, assured confidence of a stadium filler’ – Chortle
‘Charm, charisma and success written all over him’ – The Evening Standard
‘A total natural, his storytelling is utterly unique and never anything less than gut-bustlingly hilarious’ – GQ
Matt Forde
Matt is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists, having appeared on The Royal Variety Performance 2015 (ITV), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Mock the Week (BBC2 Two), Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report and Election Report (both BBC Two), 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Question Time (BBC One), This Week (BBC One) and Jon Richardson Grows Up (C4).
Following a total sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival’s prestigious Cabaret Bar and a recently announced nationwide tour of Matt’s latest show, It’s My Political Party (and I’ll Cry if I Want To), September 2016 saw the launch of Unspun with Matt Forde, Matt’s new political comedy show for DAVE, combining topical stand-up, filmed segments with the best political comedians from around the world, and interviews with leading names from British politics.
Jayde Adams
Edinburgh Festival Best Newcomer nominee 2016 and seen on shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Comedy Central’s Roast Battle
ITalkTelly – “She is a natural performer, a phenomenal talent and also has the ability to make an audience laugh and cry. . . A work of genius.”
Voice Mag – “With every gesture and facial expression, she is rewarded with a room full of laughter – no half measures.”
James Gill (MC)
James Gill is a comedian, presenter, warm-up artiste and writer, establishing himself as one of the most popular compères on the circuit.
“I would go to the ends of the earth to share a stage with James Gill. He’s a sharp & energetic hero of club comedy and a face we’ll undoubtedly be seeing all over TV very soon” – Katherine Ryan
One of the most imaginative MCs on the circuit. The crowd love him” – Rob Beckett
