Victorious Festival 2023: Mumford & Sons announced as final Sunday headliner for this year's festival

A Grammy and Brit award-winning folk rock band has been named as the final headline act for this year’s Victorious Festival.
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I Will Wait band Mumford & Sons will close this year’s three-day event in Southsea over the August bank holiday weekend, completing the festival line-up.

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Other acts that have been confirmed for this year's festival include Alt-J, Ben Howard, DJ legend Pete Tong performing his Ibiza Classic with the Essential Orchestra, Sigrid, Ellie Goulding, Natalie Imbruglia, Friendly Fires, Annie Mac, Blossoms, The Charlatans, Belle and Sebastian, Jake Bugg, Kaiser Chiefs, Hard-Fi, The Vaccines, The Divine Comedy, The Coral, The Enemy and Katy B.

Victorious Festival is one of the biggest events in Portsmouth's calendar. Picture: Marcin JedrysiakVictorious Festival is one of the biggest events in Portsmouth's calendar. Picture: Marcin Jedrysiak
Victorious Festival is one of the biggest events in Portsmouth's calendar. Picture: Marcin Jedrysiak

Andy Marsh, lead booker at Victorious, said: ‘Mumford & Sons strike the perfect balance with the rest of our bookings and the show is going to make for a fantastic finale.

‘Victorious 2023 is going to be huge and we are honoured that the band will be bringing their only UK show this year to Southsea. We can’t wait for August.’

Victorious Festival will be taking place on Southsea Common, with thousands of people expected to flock to the city over the course of the weekend.

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The first set of early bird tickets have already sold out, with the second tier of tickets available to purchase online. Standard tickets are ‘coming soon’ according to the festival website.

Previous headliners at Victorious have included Sam Fender, Stereophonics, Paulo Nutini, Madness and Elbow.

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