Other cities the festival will be travelling to include Derby, Norwich, Sheffield, Manchester and London. The Bristol edition will be help at the LLOYDS Ampitheatre from Saturday the 6th of September.
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00:00So, this year is the 10th anniversary of Wingfest. I started it in 2014 in a pub car park with 300 people.
00:10At the time I had a chicken wing stall and I used to get the chicken from my family farm in Norfolk.
00:15And I started the festival, the idea came from wing fests in the States.
00:21They have small ones in every town, every county it seems.
00:24And I thought if I brought this to the UK, this would be a great way of promoting the chicken wing stall.
00:29However, the first year sold out, 300 people, so I thought this was a great idea.
00:33It was just 7 traders in a car park serving chicken wings.
00:37Did it again the next year, did 1,000 people, put on a bit of music as well, eating competitions.
00:43The next year I did 2,000 people, added in a bit more content, a few more games, a few more bands.
00:48And before I know it, fast forward 10 years, it's my full-time business.
00:53We do 40,000 people around the country, 6 different events.
00:57And the largest festival, the original festival, London Wing Fest, which has just been in July,
01:02is now at the London Stadium and is 20,000 people over 3 days.
01:06We get through about half a million wings.
01:08There's 50 street food traders, restaurants, barbecue teams peddling their wares.
01:13We've got music stages, we've got axe throwing, fairground rides, we've got food demo stages,
01:18we've got drinking games, we've got bourbon demos.
01:21It really is now a huge festival.
01:25Gosh, that sounds so exciting.
01:27And it's coming to Bristol.
01:29Tell me about the Bristol event.
01:32So the idea is that we're showcasing the best chicken wings in the area.
01:36So we bring it to Bristol to, one, highlight what great chicken wing traders you've got in Bristol.
01:43But we also bring some of the traders from other parts of the country so that, again,
01:47the people of Bristol can experience wings that they might not have been able to experience
01:50or they wouldn't have been able to visit just in Bristol.
01:53So we've got 15 wing slingers from around the country.