Victorious Festival is back with an Easter Egg hunt that is more Egg-citing than ever before. Following the success of last year’s weeklong search, they’ve decided to turn up the heat for 2026 with one HUGE, high-stakes hunt on Saturday 4th April. In honour of Portsmouth celebrating, it’s 100th...
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Review: Keo at The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth
Words and pictures by Rhona Murphy. London based Keo are nearing the mid-way point of their UK/Ireland/European tour with the Portsmouth show at The Wedgewood Rooms their penultimate mainland UK gig (11/3/26). If you’ve never heard of Keo you’re probably in the majority but the band is currently one...
Road to Victorious winner announced
Picture: HLD Media. On Friday night (8/3/36) Victorious Festival announced the winner of its Road to Victorious competition. The competition offers one emerging artist from the Portsmouth postcode area the chance to win a summer of touring some of the country’s biggest festivals, accompanied by a professional touring crew...
Interview: Rick Witter of Shed Seven on enjoying a second bite of the cherry
By Sally Churchward. Rick Witter bounces into the doorway of his dressing room, his index and middle fingers held up. “Two minutes,” he mouths. As a long term Shed Seven fan, it’s the first time I’ll have had a chance to chat with him in 30-odd years of fandom....
Victorious: Palestine and protest at the Southsea festival
By Sally Churchward. Picture by Simon Reed – Musical Pictures. The Mary Wallopers weren’t one of the headline acts at Victorious Festival but the band hit international headlines following their very brief outing on the main stage on Friday afternoon in front of a huge crowd at the Southsea...
Love (Re)claimed art exhibition celebrates queer love, identity and artistic expression, this weekend
Image by Rachel Jones. Love Reclaimed is an exhibition celebrating queer love, identity, and artistic expression, exploring the intersections of love and queerness, forming part of the UK Pride programme of events as Portsmouth warms up to host UK Pride next month. 35 local LGBTQIA+ artists are taking part,...
People in Common: graphic novel creator Michael Dymock
By Sally Churchward. In our People in Common section we meet some of the local people who help make our communities so vibrant. Here we chat to illustrator and graphic novel creator Michael Dymock. He had had a passion for illustration since childhood. But it was when Michael...
Stone come to the Wedgewood Rooms in October
Image by Claudia Legge. The next opportunity to catch STONE’s electric live show comes soon, with the Liverpool four piece set to play Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms on the 27th October. This headline tour celebrates the release of their acclaimed debut album Fear Life For A Lifetime and will be followed...
Victorious – what to love besides the music
By Sally Churchward. Additional reporting: Spring Wise. Victorious is, of course, a music festival. But while the bands are obviously the big draw, there are other attractions that make it special. Here are some of the things besides big names, that make those three days on Southsea Common so...
Review: Victorious Sunday – Biffy Clyro, Wet Leg, Kooks, Natasha Bedingfield, Becky Hill and more
By Sally Churchward and Lewis Maclean. Images: Victorious Festival/Strong Island. Thousands of people singing the lyrics “when we collide we come together” in unison along with Biffy Clyro on the Common Stage, so loudly it could easily be heard a mile or more away, to the backdrop of fireworks was...