A glorious day in the sunshine, we didn’t get there too early so missed the early bands with the intention of making it there for The Snuts. Anyone who went will know they were substituted last minute for The Sherlocks but a great swap as they gave a superb hour of guitar based indie rock so all were happy, well except for The Snuts die hards. I’m seeing The Sherlocks again in December supporting Shed Seven so looking forward to that even more now, a great start to the day.
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The main stage wasn’t to full at that point so a great view and great atmosphere. Louis Tomlinson was on next, no offence to Louis but we made our way quickly over to the Castle Stage. This was the other end of the common and The Lottery Winners were soon to start and always put on a great show, again they did not disappoint. Third time seeing this band and they were great, upbeat, funny and great tunes and singalongs that was perfect in the sunshine, even a fun jibe at Snow Patrol’s headline slot that they stated will be theres in 5 years time, there own rendition of Chasing Cars followed with great backing vocals from al in attendance. The crowd atmosphere was brilliant. We walked around the corner and straight to the front barrier and met some great people as well.
We were going to head back for The Idles but Maximo Park were up next and with such a great spot and having not seen them live before decided to stay. A great band who had the crowd singing along and wanting more, then ran through all the sits from different albums. They definitely knew what the crowd wanted. Well worth staying. Will be revisiting there back catalogue over the coming weeks.
They wrapped up at 7.20pm and we headed back to the main stage for Snow Patrol as did what felt like most of the festival goers, it was rammed. We ended up about 100 meters from the stage but hats off to Victorious Festival, the sound was great. They had speaker towers and screens as far back us so even at that distance no quality was lost. Only an hour and ten minute set for one of the headliners but they squeezed the most out of the time they had.
As they drew to a close we dropped back and headed to the Big Top and caught the latter half of House of Anthems for some old school ‘bangers’ and they were ace. It was heaving. This was followed up by a the compere Alfie Ordinary who filled the changeover fantastically, singalongs a plenty until the Bloody Grungers came on smashing Limp Bizkit and Linken Park tracks. We’d had notification that the last train home had been cancelled so we were only able to see twenty minutes of Fatboy Slim before having to head off early but a great day all in all.
