Victorious Festival

Victorious Festival is a three-day music festival held in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2011.^[1] In its first year, the festival was named the Victorious Vintage Festival.^[2] For the first two years, the festival was held in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, while subsequent years were held in the Castle Field and Southsea Common areas of Southsea.^[3]

Common stage at Victorious Festival, 2016

Aerial view of the Common Stage, 2022

Castle Stage in 2022

Southsea Castle, Southsea Skatepark, the D-Day Museum and other local attractions are within the festival boundaries and are only accessible to ticket holders during that time.^[4] In 2016, the organizers announced the launch of a charity, the Victorious Foundation, which seeks to protect disadvantaged children.^[5] Part of the proceeds from ticket sales is given to the local D-Day Museum.^[6] In 2015, the festival's impact on the Common and the smell from waste caused complaints from the residents.^[7]

The 2017 festival extended the duration to include a first night party headlined by Madness. Camping facilities were provided for the 2017 festival at a site at Farlington playing fields after camping on Southsea Common was ruled out. Portsmouth City Council has agreed to allow the festival until 2027 and hoped that the festival would bring over £5.8m a year for the local economy.^[8] In 2017, a majority stake in the festival was sold to Global Entertainment with the hopes that bigger acts may be secured in future.^[9] Superstruct Entertainment, the live entertainment platform backed by Providence Equity Partners, owns the festival after it entered definitive agreement for the acquisition of several live music and entertainment festivals from Global Media & Entertainment in April 2019.^[10] The daily capacity of the 2019 festival was 65,000.^[11]

The 2020 edition of the festival was cancelled in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but returned the following year.^[12]

Lineups

Edition	Year	Attendance	Headliners	Notable acts
1	2012	35,000^[2]	Dodgy, The Lightning Seeds, Mark Morriss, Bog Rolling Stones	Beth Oliver Band, England Road, The Ricardos, Freestyle Funk Collective
2	2013	45,000^[13]	Level 42, The Feeling, Maxïmo Park, Katy B	Fenech-Soler, The Joy Formidable, Charlotte Church, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, DJ Yoda, Mike Skinner
3	2014	80,000^[13]	Dizzee Rascal,^[13] Seasick Steve, Tom Odell, Ocean Colour Scene	Razorlight, Naughty Boy, British Sea Power, Scouting for Girls, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Shed Seven, Menswear, The Pigeon Detectives, Public Service Broadcasting, John Bramwell, Slow Club
4	2015	100,000^[5]	Basement Jaxx,^[14] Ray Davies, Flaming Lips, Tinie Tempah	The Darkness, Texas, We Are Scientists, The Magic Numbers, Primal Scream, The Fratellis, Ella Eyre, Super Furry Animals, Johnny Marr^[14]
5	2016	120,000^[4]	Manic Street Preachers, High Flying Birds, Annie Mac, Mark Ronson	Travis, The Coral, Levellers, Boomtown Rats, Echo and the Bunnymen, Editors, Wretch 32, DMA's, The Selecter, Public Service Broadcasting, Milky Chance, Space, Will Young, Slow Readers Club, The Horrors, Raleigh Ritchie, Izzy Bizu, Teleman, Wolfmother, Ash, Jack Savoretti, Emmy The Great, Beans on Toast, Natty, Liam Bailey
6	2017	120,000 +	Madness, Stereophonics, Elbow, The Charlatans, Rita Ora, Olly Murs	Frank Turner, Jake Bugg, Franz Ferdinand, The Dandy Warhols, The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club, Slaves, Feeder, Frightened Rabbit, KT Tunstall, Sundara Karma, Raye, Lady Leshurr, Band of Skulls, Deaf Havana, Pete Doherty, Temples, Field Music, British Sea Power, Shy FX, Turin Brakes, Sikth, Echobelly
7	2018		The Libertines, Kaiser Chiefs, Paul Weller, Paloma Faith, Brian Wilson, The Prodigy, Years & Years, Friendly Fires	The Lightning Seeds, Happy Mondays Shed Seven, Everything Everything, Billy Bragg, Gaz Coombes, The Pigeon Detectives, Sleeper, Gabrielle Aplin, Coasts, Cabbage, Duke Special, Barry Hyde, Example + DJ Wire, Embrace, Gomez, The Amazons, Reverend and The Makers, The Bluetones, Tom Walker, Lucy Spraggan, Gengahr, Chris Helme
8	2019		Two Door Cinema Club, The Specials, Rudimental, Bloc Party, New Order, Clean Bandit	Doves, The Zutons, Dodgy, James Bay, Ocean Colour Scene, The Hives, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Professor Green, Lewis Capaldi, The Rifles, Badly Drawn Boy, The Vaccines, Razorlight, Ziggy Marley, Basement Jaxx, Starsailor, Ash, The Futureheads
	2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)		Ian Brown, The Streets, Manic Street Preachers, Royal Blood, Nile Rodgers & Chic^[15]	The Kooks, Circa Waves, Peter Hook and The Light, Terrorvision, Rag'n'Bone Man, Craig David, Blossoms, The Fratellis, Feeder, La Roux, Twin Atlantic, Morcheeba, Reef, Stereo MC's, Bombay Bicycle Club, Johnny Marr, Miles Kane, DJ Fresh, Mystery Jets, Eve, Cast, Glasvegas, Jaguar Skills
9	2021	73,220^[16]	Madness, The Streets, Manic Street Preachers, Royal Blood, Nile Rodgers & Chic	The Kooks, Feeder, Peter Hook and The Light, Terrorvision, Lottery Winners, Rag'n'Bone Man, Craig David, Blossoms, The Fratellis, Frank Turner, Morcheeba, Reef, The Lathums, Stereo MC's, Black Honey, Seth Lakeman, Porridge Radio, Bad Sounds, Bloxx, The Mysterines, Wild Front, Rews, Lauran Hibberd, Emily Burns, Andrew Cushin, Me and The Moon, Supergrass, Fontaines D.C., Annie Mac, Miles Kane, Ella Eyre, Melanie C, Jade Bird, Clean Bandit, Cast, Glasvegas, The Snuts, Jaguar Skills, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Beans on Toast, Kawala, Lily Moore, Billie Marten, Fenne Lily, Liz Lawrence, The Clockworks, Louis Berry, Nia Wyn, Roxanne De Bastion
10	2022		Stereophonics, Paolo Nutini, Bastille, Sam Fender	James, Nothing But Thieves, The Wombats, Declan McKenna, Becky Hill, Sugababes, Example (musician), Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Self Esteem, We Are Scientists, Little Man Tate, Sam Ryder, Baby Queen, Coach Party, WorryWorry,
11	2023		Jamiroquai, Kasabian, Mumford & Sons	Alt-J, Raye, Jake Bugg, Katy B, Mae Muller, The View, Newton Faulkner, Kaiser Chiefs, Pale Waves, Kate Nash, Ellie Goulding, Ben Howard, Sigrid, The Vaccines

External links

• Victorious Festival official website

References

1. Victorious Festival: Find out about the three friends behind the music extravaganza, The News, 5 February 2016
2. , The News, 4 June 2012
3. , Buzz, 11 August 2016
4. , Portsmouth City Council, 25 August 2016
5. Music festival unveils creation of Victorious Foundation to support most vulnerable children in Portsmouth, The News, 2 April 2016
6. , The News, 11 December 2014
7. , The News, 4 September 2015
8. Portsmouth to pocket £58m jackpot thanks to ten-year Victorious Festival contract deal
9. , The News, 22 March 2017
10. "Superstruct Entertainment buys big with UK Festivals". Gig Addict. 17 April 2019.
11. "Victorious Festival 2019". eFestivals. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
12. "Important Announcement". 14 May 2020.
13. , The News, 1 March 2014
14. , The News, published 30 August 2015, updated 31 August 2015
15. "Line up Archive". Victorious Festival. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
16. Chris Broom, Victorious Festival generated £15.5m for Portsmouth's economy, new report shows, The News, 22nd February 2022