Victorious Festival 2025

[Dales]

4 hours ago, Kingkev said:

Madness have headlined 2nd on a few occasions 

 

I would imagine that would be rammed if they are against QOTSA.

 

I love QOTSA but would imagine there may be a lot of people who don't know them but would be able to real off a dozen Madness songs. It would be madness to put them on the second stage against QOTSA, I would guess Kiwinuka but some times festivals do get scheduling wrong.

 

It will be interesting to see whre those on the second line end up.

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Dales said:

 

I would imagine that would be rammed if they are against QOTSA.

 

I love QOTSA but would imagine there may be a lot of people who don't know them but would be able to real off a dozen Madness songs. It would be madness to put them on the second stage against QOTSA, I would guess Kiwinuka but some times festivals do get scheduling wrong.

 

It will be interesting to see whre those on the second line end up.

nice

[jonnytee1]

I get frustrated by anyone who says "I don't really know those bands" or "what songs have QOTSA had hits with"? I've seen a lot of these comments and am bemused because with Spotify, youtube and Apple music (and many more formats) available and speakers where you can literally say "play *******", how bone idle do you have to be to not just give any band you don't know, a listen? 

 

If you KNOW a band and don't like them that's different

 

Plus anyone saying that the line up is full of "old bands" - have they never been to victorious before? The fact that these bands are generally form the early to mid 2000s actually makes them a decade more recent than most Victorious headliners. 

 

Some people are so hard to please. 

[Dg_vic]

2 hours ago, jonnytee1 said:

I get frustrated by anyone who says "I don't really know those bands" or "what songs have QOTSA had hits with"? I've seen a lot of these comments and am bemused because with Spotify, youtube and Apple music (and many more formats) available and speakers where you can literally say "play *******", how bone idle do you have to be to not just give any band you don't know, a listen? 

 

If you KNOW a band and don't like them that's different

 

Plus anyone saying that the line up is full of "old bands" - have they never been to victorious before? The fact that these bands are generally form the early to mid 2000s actually makes them a decade more recent than most Victorious headliners. 

 

Some people are so hard to please. 

I think what some people mean is too many ‘old bands’ and not enough ‘new pop’. I would tend to agree on this line up compared to previous. We are going to struggle to find anything on the lineup for an 11 year old girl to enjoy. Which is a shame. 
 

previous years including Jess Glynn and Katie hill, sigrid, Dylan, even CMAT. 

[FestivalJamie]

This years line up is not really family orientated at all, which is a strange move given the festival has a big focus on attracting families with the kids etc.

 

regardless of if you think the headliners are a good choice or not, the undercard doesn’t have any (or many) big mainstream names like in the past years with Sigrid, Jess Glynne , Becky Hill etc as mentioned above.

[Zero_Newnab]

  

35 minutes ago, Dg_vic said:

We are going to struggle to find anything on the lineup for an 11 year old girl to enjoy.

 

If you're going to try, I'd suggest Caity Baser for new cheesy pop, and The Last Dinner Party for something slightly "cool", currently very popular.

 

There's some credible girl-fronted groups with a rockier edge too - Sprints and HotWax for example. I don't envy you having to try and decipher what works for an 11 year old though! Last year Sugababes were part of the 2nd wave announcement, so you might get something there?

[Dg_vic]

1 hour ago, Zero_Newnab said:

  

 

If you're going to try, I'd suggest Caity Baser for new cheesy pop, and The Last Dinner Party for something slightly "cool", currently very popular.

 

There's some credible girl-fronted groups with a rockier edge too - Sprints and HotWax for example. I don't envy you having to try and decipher what works for an 11 year old though! Last year Sugababes were part of the 2nd wave announcement, so you might get something there?

I agree with all your recommendations but guitar bands are just not cool to your average 11 year old.
 

funnily enough, I think last dinner party and (currently tween favourite) Chappel Roan sound incredibly similar and same themes.  However, pretty much because one is a guitar band, it’s difficult to convince tweens to get into them. 

[Dales]

3 hours ago, Dg_vic said:

I think what some people mean is too many ‘old bands’ and not enough ‘new pop’. I would tend to agree on this line up compared to previous. We are going to struggle to find anything on the lineup for an 11 year old girl to enjoy. Which is a shame. 
 

previous years including Jess Glynn and Katie hill, sigrid, Dylan, even CMAT. 

 

If she likes Brat then she probably already knows Caity Baser. Great fun for all the family but can be a little rude live. She will probably the highlight of the weekend for some people.

[Dales]

6 hours ago, gfa said:

nice

 

Was not sure if anyone would notice 🙂

[sedra]

5 hours ago, Dg_vic said:

I think what some people mean is too many ‘old bands’ and not enough ‘new pop’. I would tend to agree on this line up compared to previous. We are going to struggle to find anything on the lineup for an 11 year old girl to enjoy. Which is a shame. 
 

previous years including Jess Glynn and Katie hill, sigrid, Dylan, even CMAT. 

I expect there will be more added nearer the time- there is usually a 2nd announcement in the Spring with extra names

[Dales]

If we need some extra girl power, would be happy to have Self Esteem & Sharon Van Etten from End Of The Road.

[Simsy]

24 minutes ago, Dales said:

If we need some extra girl power, would be happy to have Self Esteem & Sharon Van Etten from End Of The Road.

Yes, and moonchild sanelly was great at glasto, would love to see her at victorious 

[jonnytee1]

Well whatever people think of the line up - it’s not getting as much stick as reading and Leeds 😂😂😂

[FestivalJamie]

16 minutes ago, jonnytee1 said:

Well whatever people think of the line up - it’s not getting as much stick as reading and Leeds 😂😂😂

R&L is simply awful this year.. quite surprised they didn’t bag charli xcx to be fair

[eatingglitter]

19 minutes ago, FestivalJamie said:

R&L is simply awful this year.. quite surprised they didn’t bag charli xcx to be fair

I've just had a look, bloody hell... Even by a retro nostalgia loving standards that is POOR. 

[FestivalJamie]

3 minutes ago, eatingglitter said:

I've just had a look, bloody hell... Even by a retro nostalgia loving standards that is POOR. 

 

im personally not a fan of victorious line up this year but its way stronger than R&L, which is ironic because victorious is a considerably smaller and cheaper fest

[Dg_vic]

The reading line up is truly awful. Only hozier, chappel roan and Travis Scott could be classified as close to major festival headliners (and roan only has 1 album). 
 

 

[craigcharles420]

Strongly considering this as a replacement for Leeds with how dire that lineup is. Just a matter of weighing up if it's worth the trek from up north

[gingerevans84]

9 hours ago, Dg_vic said:

The reading line up is truly awful. Only hozier, chappel roan and Travis Scott could be classified as close to major festival headliners (and roan only has 1 album). 
 

 

So 3 out of 4 in your opinion. Not that Bring Me arent big festival headliners in their own right.

[3Dimensions]

9 hours ago, Dg_vic said:

The reading line up is truly awful. Only hozier, chappel roan and Travis Scott could be classified as close to major festival headliners (and roan only has 1 album). 
 

 

BMTH drew quite a large crowd at Download last year!

[DomDom1984]

BMTH are quite comfortably headliners.

[Dales]

Make Fridays the alt rock night. BMTH as Friday headliner in 2026? Obviously, only playing the old stuff with death growls and screaming.

 

Be worth it to see the comments from those who don’t like or know QOTSA.

[Dg_vic]

3 hours ago, gingerevans84 said:

So 3 out of 4 in your opinion. Not that Bring Me arent big festival headliners in their own right.

I thought Reading were meant to have 2 headliners per day (Hozier and Chappel Roan can't both be headliners otherwise).   I am just sad really as I attended every Reading from 96 - 10 in some capacity (mostly weekend) and the line ups were incredible in retrospect.  Maybe there is just not the volume of bands any more to headline this. 

Edited yesterday at 11:53 AM by Dg_vic

[DomDom1984]

There's three easy headliners. And Hozier does have a successful arena tour under his belt, which has been enough in a LOT of years.

 

Only problem with Hozier is how out of place he's likely to be.

[branvan]

Has someone here done the VIP experience (one of these 'gardens')? Is it worth the +190.-??...