KINGS, QUEENS AND VAMPIRES SET TO DESCEND ON VICTORIOUS FESTIVAL 2025

• Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age and Vam­pire Week­end announced as headliners
• Plus Bloc Par­ty, Michael Kiwanu­ka, Mad­ness, The Last Din­ner Par­ty, Nel­ly Fur­ta­do and more 
• Day Tick­ets go on Sale from just £70 (plus fees)

Set on the pic­turesque South­sea seafront, mul­ti-award-win­ning Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val (22/23/24 August 2025) – the UK’s biggest met­ro­pol­i­tan fes­ti­val – has today announced a mas­sive billing of head­lin­ers along­side a host of amaz­ing artists and come­di­ans for the ulti­mate August Bank Hol­i­day week­ender. On top of today’s line-up announce­ment, day tick­ets have also now been released. 

Open­ing the fes­ti­val are rock roy­al­ty Queens of the Stone Age as Josh Homme and co intend to rip through a set of classics. 

Indie icons Vam­pire Weekend’s only UK fes­ti­val show of the sum­mer, lead­ing Saturday’s billing with a head­line set includ­ing A‑Punk, Oxford Com­ma and This Life.

Singer-song­writer Michael Kiwanu­ka is per­form­ing on Friday. 

Glob­al icon Nel­ly Fur­ta­do joins Saturday’s line up along with all female rock pop out­fit The Last Din­ner Par­ty and Glasgow’s finest Travis. Bloc Par­ty return to Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val along with British soul and pop icon Gabrielle and new wave indie rock­ers Rey­tons . 

Fill­ing the now-cov­et­ed After­noon Spe­cial Guest slots, Vic­to­ri­ous will see Brit­pop leg­ends The Char­la­tans get the Fri­day par­ty start­ed and rap duo Riz­zle Kicks are Saturday’s offer­ing. Craig David returns with Craig David Presents TS5 for a Bank Hol­i­day after­noon par­ty on Sun­day! Plus Kings of Leon​ will be head­lin­ing Sunday.

There’s also Spice Girl Melanie C (DJ set), Mike Skin­ner (DJ set), Daniel Bed­ing­field, Rev­erend and The Mak­ers, The Zutons and Shed Sev­en. Southampton’s hot­ly tipped pop sen­sa­tion Caity Baser and Scouse singer-song­writer Jamie Web­ster will also perform.

Indie pop out­fit Every­thing Every­thing, Cir­ca Waves, Wun­der­horse, Palace, The Mary Wal­lop­ers, The K’s, Ash, Scout­ing For Girls, Star­sailor, The Aca­d­e­m­ic, Bradley Simp­son (of The Vamps), Young Knives, Scout­ing For Girls, Mr Scruff (elec­tron­ic set), Octo­ber Drift and The Waeve.

Com­e­dy with the award-win­ning Joel Dom­mett and Ruby Wax head­ing up the Vic­to­ri­ous com­e­dy line-up.

Speak­ing about today’s announce­ment Andy Marsh, Lead Book­er at Vic­to­ri­ous, said:

“We’ve booked our biggest year to date for Vic­to­ri­ous 2025 with icon­ic head­lin­ers and emerg­ing tal­ent, across the board. We always want to pro­vide the best val­ue to our fans and work hard to cre­ate a week­end that tru­ly has some­thing for every­one. Vic­to­ri­ous 2025 promis­es unfor­get­table per­for­mances, mem­o­ries and once-in-a-life­time expe­ri­ences! We can’t wait to see every­one on South­sea seafront again!”

Held in South­sea over­look­ing the Solent, Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val is the ulti­mate fam­i­ly-friend­ly fes­ti­val expe­ri­ence. Ear­ly bird tick­ets for Vic­to­ri­ous Fes­ti­val are on sale now with week­end tick­ets from just £180 and day tick­ets from just £70 (fees apply).

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