By Neil Glasspool. Image: festival goers by Emma Wurfel. I imagine that most parents will, like me, probably testify that taking children to a festival can be “challenging”. There’s the obvious stuff like the British weather. Too hot, too cold, too wet, too windy. And unless you’re happy to...
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Review: Victorious Festival, 2026
By Sally Churchward. Main image: Kasabian by Elliot McRae. More than 150,000 people headed to Southsea Common for Victorious Festival this weekend (28-30/8/26). And those 150,000 will have had as wide a range of experiences as the weather – which covered almost all bases, including blazing sunshine, strong wind,...
Victorious Festival announces Easter Egg hunt with £14,000 worth of prizes
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...
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...
Victorious Festival 2025 donates record £173,484 to charity
Victorious Festival has wrapped up 2025 by donating its highest ever annual charitable donation of £173,484. The donation brings the festival’s total charitable contributions since 2014 to over £926,370. The funding supports organisations championing mental health, accessibility, wellbeing, education, grassroots sport and more, including Tonic Music for Mental Health,...
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...
Kaiser Chiefs to replace Michael Kiwanuka at Victorious
Southampton’s Michael Kiwanuka announced yesterday that would be cancelling all forthcoming shows, including festival appearances, due to continued illness. The ‘Small Changes’ star was set to play at Southsea’s Victorious on Friday, August 22nd. Kaiser Chiefs are taking his place, playing on the main stage ahead of Queens of...
Album review: Rats! Rats! Rats! – Bloody Hello & launch party
By Sam Wise. For us the highlight of Victorious Festival last summer was not, as predicted, The Pixies, on the promise of whom we had bought the tickets. No, the real stars of the event, for us, were Gosport punk/grunge duo Rats! Rats! Rats!, who we caught on one...
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...