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KKR-backed music festival hit by band boycotts over Palestinian flag

Organisers of Victorious ‘sincerely apologise’ as acts withdraw from Portsmouth event

Several bands have withdrawn from Victorious, a music festival backed by private equity group KKR, this weekend in Portsmouth after organisers cut the set of an Irish group displaying a Palestinian flag on stage.

The boycott by the bands — including one of the biggest on the bill for Saturday, The Last Dinner Party — is the latest setback for Superstruct.

The music festival operator — which was bought by KKR last year for €1.3bn — owns Victorious as well as a number of other similar events across Europe, including Hungary’s Sziget and Germany’s Wacken Open Air.

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