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On 1/23/2024 at 7:28 AM, sisco said:
Would not surprise me at all if Tom Grennan and Rick Astley are 2 of the special guests, I also thought Busted too. The Kooks maybe in the frame as well.
Shall keep an eye out on the Tramlies, Y Not and Kendall lineups this week as that should give us more clues
Definitely up for Tom Grennan & Rick Astley being a special guest. Watched Tom on the acoustic stage in 2017 for about 10/15mins, before we headed over to Sterophonics, mainly cos it was easier to get a drink at the bar and take them to the common stage that year.
I am hoping we get all 3 days afternoon special guest, the final comedy headliner and the Seaside & Beats & Swing headliners, as well as a few more names.
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Let’s hope we have some good afternoon special guests and headliners on the Beats, Seaside (should be back this year) and acoustic.
So far not very impressed, so staying hopeful!
Tom Grennan has played Victorious twice before, once on acoustic, and once on castle.
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On 1/8/2024 at 10:28 AM, John L said:
Hoping for a bit of Indie fodder in the next announcement - Travis and Echo and the Bunnymen would be good starts for me.
Really interested who will be the afternoon special guests. They got to go with Rick Astley as that would be a good laugh in the sunshine (Fingers Crossed)
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So who are we all hoping for in the next round of announcements? Or who do we think may be announced?
I would like to see the results of the survey of who we would like to see at Victorious verses what we get!
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Happy New Year everyone!
I was at the local panto in Pompey yesterday, and they announced on stage that Shaun Williamson (Barry from East Enders) will be at Victorious. No idea in what capacity.
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20 hours ago, 3Dimensions said:
Not sure, that’s the main car park I use. Maybe problems with the building structure or numberplate recognition? Half of the payments machines always seem to be broken too!
Have to keep an eye on it. I know a few people who used it for parking for Victorious as it’s walkable instead of paying the ridiculous priced park & ride.
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Been into town recently and we parked in crasswell street. What bloody happened, most of it is closed! Thinking a lot of victorious people could use it and now can’t! Any locals know what’s going on?
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3 minutes ago, eatingglitter said:
I wonder if it's because the Seaside Stage is back? There's literally more "big stages" again?
Last I heard they were seeding the bandstand area, and I believe its due to open early summer.
So if beats and swing stays in the DDay car park, Seaside stage opens, more to announce later? As they usually have some good names on both stages.
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Victorious have asked the facebook page to remove the leaked poster - Same happened on here last year
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The announcement is dropping around 10am from what people are saying, Wave jumped the gun and announced.
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5 minutes ago, Dg_vic said:
Interesting as a first wave announcement if true. If you added Pulp to the Saturday that’s the best victorious so far.
I am still not convinced by the font and style of that picture is quite right.
I also can’t bring myself to believe that Idles are either going to play below snow patrol (common) or Louis Tomlinson (castle). They are usually quite particular on where / when they play with on festival line ups. I was sure they were locked on for Reading next year following new album.
Saturday is too lightweight too. I am one the biggest Jamie T apologists around but that will be the lowest main stage turn out in Victorious history if he headlines.
lastly, they have never announced all headliners before Xmas. Why start now?
The "Headliners" were confirmed on the local radio station Wave 105 - From what I am reading on another forum
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5 minutes ago, sisco said:
Victorious are terrible with their announcements tbf and social media in general. That sign has been up for a week, it should have been posted everywhere and then lead up to the announcement a few days later. Mad it’s all so silent
Your right, Only a few years ago, it was in the local paper first thing, shared all over social media then like clockwork, 10-10.30 Victorious Post (Its always on my mid morning tea break they post lol)
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15 minutes ago, eatingglitter said:
Got my little fingers crossed for an announcement today at 12. The Echo will normally snafu and launch it at 11am instead.
Keep an eye on the Portsmouth News, They often reported it before Victorious facebook announces.
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44 minutes ago, Jack01825 said:
Are we likely to get an announcment soon now the sign is up?
Last year it was about a week after the sign went up on castle field.
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Have you all seen this
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Blink 182 Start their UK tour in Belfast on Monday 26th August!
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Fingers crossed we should be getting our first announcement in 6-8weeks time.
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I would really like a real ale area to come back. As we do have some really nice breweries like Urban Island and Staggeringly in Portsmouth.
I hoping it may come back once the seaside stage comes back, as the D-Day car park was the real ale area with a small stage.
Cup/rubbish collection by kids was awesome, and definitely kept rubbish down.
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Over the weekend, me and a group of friends who go to Victorious were talking about what we would like to see at the festival (Not specific bands etc)
Things that came up were, Real ale tent to come back, silent disco to come back, Circus to come back for the kids, Dance tent/stage.
So I thought I asked everyone, what would you like to see at the festival, not that it will happen as I have nothing to do with Victorious, but someone from Victorious may see!
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Seaside stage will hopefully be back next year. They are now repairing the grass, adding topsoil to reseed it! Which means if they keep everything the same as 2023 - It will again get bigger.
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40 minutes ago, Sportball said:
Is it easy to get public transport after the festival? It was bad enough getting back to the campsite. I was thinking of booking a hotel a little further north closer to Victoria Park but I would need transport.
I have not used public transport (Local buses & Taxis) for the last 2 years, if Im honest (But I have in years before).....I got my Dad to collect my family. As it was very long queues for buses and taxis. A lot of people suggest leaving before the end each day, otherwise its a wait from what I am told. Most of the locals will be heading the same way, onto buses, trains and taxis x
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I’ve mentioned before, but my group of friends and family have a completely different taste in music to what Victorious used to offer. We are more Dance/Pop with a bit of well known chart indie or rock. Normally there was only 1 or 2 acts we would really want to see, but most of the time, we were not overly bothered with the line up. (Don’t get me wrong, we still enjoyed ourselves, but it was not about the music line up) Yet booked tickets every year on early bird tier one for the full weekend.
By 2017, prices were creeping up, drink and food prices were high, trying to get home after festival on public transport was chaos. (Locals so no hotels needed) Most of us have been going since it was free, so it may not have been a lot of money in 2017, but it was a lot more than in 2011. We felt paying all that money for the whole weekend for a handful of acts was not worth it. So that year we waited for the line up to be announced and went for one day only.
The day we didn’t go, being local, it was a nightmare. Our local supermarket is the Sainsburys next to campsite. It honestly looked raided and was full of festival goers grabbing bacon, beers and burgers, and washing in the toilets. (Okay, should have gone somewhere else, but we honestly didn’t think about it at the time) we couldn’t head to Southsea, as all buses/pubs/car parks were rammed. Closed roads. Couldn’t invite friends and family down (as it was near my birthday) as all hotels were sold out. Couldn’t do a birthday night out as a lot of friends went to the festival……hence these days I’m back to buying a tier 1 weekend ticket, if I cant beat them, join them so they say 😉 (but I can see why a lot of locals get fed up with the growing size of the festival, it does really impact our area, although Victorious does give back a lot to the local area)
Since 2017, Victorious have definitely added more of the music me and my friends like. And we usually have a good 2-3 acts per day. And the comedy adds something different.
Anyhow if you’re still with me and not fallen asleep. I totally get people being hesitant over the jump in price. And it doesn’t matter if your local or not (although I totally get it’s double with hotels and transport)
It’s all about is there enough acts you really want to see to warrant paying out whatever you pay, and it’s that game of do you buy without knowing the line up!
I’m already going in 2024, tickets are bought, as I do enjoy the festival, but I’m hoping seeing the big increases will hopefully bring in a few big headliners….and at least one maybe what we like lol.
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Victorious Festival 2024 10th Anniversary
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Would be fun if Victorious drop some hints of who they are announcing!