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Common stage at Victorious Festival, 2016
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Aerial view of the Common Stage, 2022
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Castle Stage in 2023

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]

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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

EditionYearAttendanceHeadlinersNotable acts
1201235,000 [2] Dodgy, The Lightning Seeds, Mark Morriss, Bog Rolling StonesBeth Oliver Band, England Road, The Ricardos, Freestyle Funk Collective
2201345,000 [13] Level 42, The Feeling, Maxïmo Park, Katy B Fenech-Soler, The Joy Formidable, Charlotte Church, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, DJ Yoda, Mike Skinner
3201480,000 [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
42015100,000 [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]
52016120,000 [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
62017120,000 + 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
72018 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
82019 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
9202173,220 [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
102022 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
112023 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
122024 Fatboy Slim, Snow Patrol, Jamie T, Biffy Clyro Courteeners, Pixies, Becky Hill, Wet Leg, IDLES, Louis Tomlinson, Jess Glynne, The Snuts, The Lathums, Holly Humberstone, Arlo Parks, SOFT PLAY, Yard Act, The Snuts, Maxïmo Park, The Lottery Winners, Peace, The Lightning Seeds, The Amazons, CMAT, Natasha Bedingfield, The Pigeon Detectives, The Murder Capital, The Royston Club, Do Nothing, Echobelly, Tors, Cameron Hayes, Crystal Tides, Red Rum Club, Brooke Combe, Personal Trainer

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  2. 1 2 Victorious Vintage festival attracts 35,000 to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, The News, 4 June 2012
  3. Victorious Festival returns to Portsmouth, Buzz, 11 August 2016
  4. 1 2 Plan journeys to Victorious Festival to avoid delays, Portsmouth City Council, 25 August 2016
  5. 1 2 Music festival unveils creation of Victorious Foundation to support most vulnerable children in Portsmouth, The News, 2 April 2016
  6. Victorious Festival raises £43,000 for D-Day Museum, The News, 11 December 2014
  7. There’s an awful smell on Southsea Common!, The News, 4 September 2015
  8. Portsmouth to pocket £58m jackpot thanks to ten-year Victorious Festival contract deal
  9. Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival is sold in major new deal, The News, 22 March 2017
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  12. "Important Announcement". 14 May 2020.
  13. 1 2 3 Dizzee Rascal heads Victorious Festival line-up, The News, 1 March 2014
  14. 1 2 Victorious Festival: 2015 hailed as best yet, 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