Victorious Festival

The tradition & historical record

Victorious Festival is a three-day music festival held in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2012. ¹

In its first year, the festival was named the Victorious Vintage Festival. The first official Victorious Festival was 2013. The festival was held in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, before moving to Southsea Seafront in 2014. 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. Victorious has a charitable arm called Victorious in the Community. The aim of this arm is give back to Portsmouth by supporting local charities and good causes in the area. Part of the proceeds from ticket sales is given to the local D-Day Museum. 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. In 2017, a majority stake in the festival was sold to Global Entertainment with the hope that bigger acts might be secured in future. Superstruct Entertainment, the live entertainment platform backed by Providence Equity Partners, part-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. The festival is still run and operated by the same local team of people that founded it. The daily capacity of the 2019 festival was 65,000. The 2020 edition of the festival was cancelled in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but returned the following year. The festival has a significant economic impact on Portsmouth each year. ¹

In 2025, Irish band The Mary Wallopers had their set on the Friday cut as they displayed a Palestinian flag on stage. As a result, several other bands including The Last Dinner Party, The Academic and Cliffords cancelled their sets in protest. The event organisers initially stated that the decision to end their set was made due to a "discriminatory" chant rather than the display of the flag, but later retracted this, apologised to the band and pledged to make a "substantial donation" to humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza. ¹

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Victorious Festival is Music festival in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

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