Victorious Festival 2025

[gfa]

1 hour ago, eatingglitter said:

I think the only one I'd be like "ooooh" from that is Teddy Swims. It feels very IoW tbh.

 

ALSO! I have more proof that I reckon we could get The Cure one day. 

They are releasing a new album and announced it with a poster in The Railway pub in Crawley where they played their first ever gig. I used to go out with someone from Crawley and we spent a lot of time in that pub, and it is a very bog standard, go and play pool, used to pay £2.50 for a double vodka lemonade back-in-the-day, type spot. 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-cure-album-poster-appears-in-crawley-pub-where-they-played-their-first-gig-3793696

How does this suggest they would play victorious? because crawley is fairly nearby?

First single is out thursday so reckon dates will rule them out soon. They are pretty big and don't seem to be the kind of older act where victorious seem throw their money at imo

Edited September 23 by gfa

[eatingglitter]

6 minutes ago, gfa said:

How does this suggest they would play victorious? because crawley is fairly nearby?

First single is out thursday so reckon dates will rule them out soon. They are pretty big and don't seem to be the kind of older act where victorious seem throw their money at imo

It's a fair point and you're probably right. Robert lives in Bognor, and they are still pretty good at "cheaper" accessible events.  But a new album does suggest their stock will increase somewhat again. 

[gfa]

2 hours ago, eatingglitter said:

It's a fair point and you're probably right. Robert lives in Bognor, and they are still pretty good at "cheaper" accessible events.  But a new album does suggest their stock will increase somewhat again. 

Their last uk festival show was glasto (albeit as a smaller headliner)

Victorious would be a big old step down!

[northernangel]

6 hours ago, gfa said:

Their last uk festival show was glasto (albeit as a smaller headliner)

Victorious would be a big old step down!

I think The Cure are one who just play the events they fancy rather than have a straight set size they won't accept.

[beau1]

The posters by The Cure are places associated with the band rather than an suggestions of shows. 

 

Railway in Crawley - Where the band played their first shows and where they grew up. 

 

Blackpool - Robert Smith was born there. 

 

I think they may some shows not sure about Victorious, don't think there is a connection. 

[Steve G]

I've predicted The Cure to do Lytham Festival in-between a UK tour similar to how Def Leppard/Mötley Crew did there tour. 

[eatingglitter]

10 hours ago, northernangel said:

I think The Cure are one who just play the events they fancy rather than have a straight set size they won't accept.

This is my logic.

 

That and pure blind faith. Haha

[HarryHammer]

We had a year off this year due to what we thought was a pretty weak line up... heard that the Courteeners set got shaved and the Snuts pulled out so that made even more concrete our decision.... hope to be on board again this year and for us the line up can't be as bad this time around... regarding Olly Murrs... bit of a strange one... seen him twice at Horse Racing nights... and normally we raise an eyebrow and say Oh great whatever.... but give him fair dues... he puts on a decent show and think he'd be great for a afternoon slot over the park.

 

The previous couple of years we had been we have had a blast and the choice of music was brilliant... any returns from:-

Friendly Fires

Raye

Charlatans

Blossoms

Kasabian

Pale waves

Inspirals

Ben Howard

Sigrid (brilliant)

Johnny Marr

The Enemy

Hard Fi

Sterophonics

Bombay Bike Club

Self Esteem

Primal Scream

paolo Nutini

Bastille

Wombats

OCS

Sam Fender

NBT

Reytons (brilliant)

Libertines

 

... and we will be booking 

[jj200]

4 hours ago, HarryHammer said:

We had a year off this year due to what we thought was a pretty weak line up... heard that the Courteeners set got shaved and the Snuts pulled out so that made even more concrete our decision.... hope to be on board again this year and for us the line up can't be as bad this time around... regarding Olly Murrs... bit of a strange one... seen him twice at Horse Racing nights... and normally we raise an eyebrow and say Oh great whatever.... but give him fair dues... he puts on a decent show and think he'd be great for a afternoon slot over the park.

 

The previous couple of years we had been we have had a blast and the choice of music was brilliant... any returns from:-

Friendly Fires

Raye

Charlatans

Blossoms

Kasabian

Pale waves

Inspirals

Ben Howard

Sigrid (brilliant)

Johnny Marr

The Enemy

Hard Fi

Sterophonics

Bombay Bike Club

Self Esteem

Primal Scream

paolo Nutini

Bastille

Wombats

OCS

Sam Fender

NBT

Reytons (brilliant)

Libertines

 

... and we will be booking 

Surely stereophonics are ruled out since they playing isle of wight 

[Dg_vic]

On 9/25/2024 at 3:11 PM, jj200 said:

Surely stereophonics are ruled out since they playing isle of wight 

Thankfully, same for Olly Murs. 

[Quiksylver]

So Hotwax and Divorce both release their debut albums on 7th March. I'd LOVE to see them next year at Victorious.

[eatingglitter]

They'd be pretty solid.

 

Victorious were pushing Bob Vylan's gig at the Guildhall the other day, and Hyphen the support is apparently from Portsmouth. Would LOVEEEEE to see them on the billing next year.

Anybody heard any rumours yet?

[foolee]

1 hour ago, eatingglitter said:

They'd be pretty solid.

 

Victorious were pushing Bob Vylan's gig at the Guildhall the other day, and Hyphen the support is apparently from Portsmouth. Would LOVEEEEE to see them on the billing next year.

Anybody heard any rumours yet?

Bob Vylan would be great at this, similar slot to Soft Play this year would be good. Not sure if they really suit this though. 
 

Not sure if it’s a rumour but Bloc Party were announced for Live At Leeds In The Park which The Kooks headlined this year so I’d say they’re fairly likely to be booked. 

[northernangel]

9 minutes ago, foolee said:

Bob Vylan would be great at this, similar slot to Soft Play this year would be good. Not sure if they really suit this though. 
 

Not sure if it’s a rumour but Bloc Party were announced for Live At Leeds In The Park which The Kooks headlined this year so I’d say they’re fairly likely to be booked. 

Only booked recently doing Silent Alarm in full so I'd suspect not.

[bingobear]

2 hours ago, northernangel said:

Only booked recently doing Silent Alarm in full so I'd suspect not.

if of course we consider 2019 recently. other acts have played prominent positions since then and returned again 

[northernangel]

38 minutes ago, bingobear said:

if of course we consider 2019 recently. other acts have played prominent positions since then and returned again 

Was in 2019 lol, I thought it was more recent. They still essentially did the same show though but without the hits.

[gfa]

Bloc Party doing Brighton Beach - surely rules them out?

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

Bloc Party doing Brighton Beach - surely rules them out?

Might even be tempted with that one. Easy to London then down to Brighton on the train. Just as far to Leeds but more convenient and I've not been to Brighton for ages.

[Jack01825]

48 minutes ago, northernangel said:

Might even be tempted with that one. Easy to London then down to Brighton on the train. Just as far to Leeds but more convenient and I've not been to Brighton for ages.

Great night out , I live there , concorde 2 for the after party aswell!

Edited October 25 by Jack01825

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, Jack01825 said:

Great night out , I live there , concorde 2 for the after party aswell!

Just something different a gig on the beach.

[Andybaggie]

OMG one of my favourite bands the Maccabees are making a reunion announcement on Monday! Perfect Castle Stage headliners in my humble opinion! 🤞

[Dg_vic]

11 hours ago, Andybaggie said:

OMG one of my favourite bands the Maccabees are making a reunion announcement on Monday! Perfect Castle Stage headliners in my humble opinion! 🤞

Will more likely be All points east 2025, but maybe 2026. 

[northernangel]

14 hours ago, Andybaggie said:

OMG one of my favourite bands the Maccabees are making a reunion announcement on Monday! Perfect Castle Stage headliners in my humble opinion! 🤞

I think these must just be one I didn't get, and I was around when they first came out. I liked one of their songs which being a big fan you'll likely work out.

[Kingkev]

Maccabees would be great for castle stage

[Kingkev]

Bloc party were superb on castle last time and played album backwards and did do hits as well . Would love them to be back but think maybe 2026.