Latitude - Henham Park, Suffolk - 17-20/7/08
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By: James Orange
Suffolk's Latitude festival is keeping up appearances and returning for a third year. The line-up will be what you're after so I'll waste no time in telling you that it's shaping up very nicely - with a short but ever so sweet confirmed list featuring: Franz Ferdinand, Interpol and Sigur Ros headlining; and Death Cab For Cutie, Amadou et Mariam, Elbow, The Breeders and MIA filling out the days.
If you were to check out the official website you'll soon notice that this (so far) modest list of bands is outstripped by quantities of artists of another kind. Comedians, authors, poets, film and theatre - all of these are making a showing at a festival that aims to be more continental in its remit. Delving some way into these you'll find big names such as Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Simon Amstell and Rich Hall in the comedy arena; Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy making up a small selection of the literary contingent; and tucked away in various places - Mark Lamarr presenting God's Jukebox, Guilty Pleasures DJ-ing, the outstanding Stewart Lee getting involved with a book club and a Halloween Short Film Festival.
The festival comprises twelve stages in total so you can expect plenty more acts to be announced before the doors open on July 17th (the event runs until the 20th). For those of you who are slightly uneasy about all this bookish nonsense then consider that previous years have seen Metronomy, CSS, Jarvis Cocker, Arcade Fire, Blood Red Shoes, Bat for Lashes and Wilco performing - so all these extras shouldn't dilute your musical experience. Tickets cost £130 and are available through the official website (see below) and various other outlets. The festival is based out of Henham Park, Southwold.
As ever, here's the complete-at-time-of-going-to-press line-up:
Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Death Cab For Cutie, Amadou et Mariam, Elbow, The Breeders, MIA, Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Rich Hall, Simon Amstell, Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Phill Jupitus & Friends Improv, Otis Lee Crenshaw, Lucy Porter, Andrew Lawrence, Dave Fulton, Ben Norris, Jon Richardson, Dan Atkinson, Jason Wood, Carey Marx, Stephen Grant, Hal Cruttenden, Miles Jupp, Royal Court Theatre, Paines Plough, The Bush Theatre, Nabokov, Pick of The Pleasance, Fat Tongue, Birds of Britain, Theatre 503, Dirty Protest, DryWrite, Sincera Productions, Vox 'n' Roll, WordTheatre, Marcus Brigstocke's Early Edition, Iain Banks, Hanif Kureishi, A L Kennedy, Irvine Welsh, Mike Gayle, Simon Armitage, John Burnside, Esther Freud, Gautam Malkani, Jenny Colgan, Claudia Hammond, Antonia Quirke, Jon Ronson, Bill Drummond, Peter Hook, Stuart Maconie, John Niven, Gregory Norminton, Jon McGregor, Andrew Clover, Robin Ince's Book Club & School for Gifted Children feat. Stewart Lee, Jo Neary, Josie Long, Wayne Shepherd, Ben Goldacre, Bridget Christie, Martin White, Gavin Osborn, Carol Ann Duffy, Adrian Mitchell, John Hegley & Keith Moore, Simon Armitage, John Burnside, Attila The Stockbroker, Luke Wright, Daljit Nagra, Aoife Mannix, Aisle 16, Joe Dunnthorne, Porky The Poet, Teen Angst, Niall O'Sullivan, Joel Stickely, John Berkavitch, Rachel Pantechnicon, Kat Francois, Tim Clare, Ross Sutherland, Chris Hicks, Byron Vincent, Elvis McGonagall, Hovis In Wonderland, Poem InBetween People, Yanny Mac Domestic Goddess, Dockers MC, Tim Wells, Nathan Filer, Andy Craven-Griffiths, Hannah Walker, John Osborne, Projct Adorno Mik Artistik, Josh Weller, Tim Turnbull, Paul MacJoyce, Kate Tempest, Sadler's Wells, The Irrepressibles, Guilty Pleasures, Swap-A-Rama, The Dialogue Project, Vauxhallville, Mark Lamarr presents God's Jukebox with Buzzcocks, Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & The True Loves, The Heavy, Barry Adamson, BAFTA, Halloween Short Film Festival, George Pringle, PostSecret.com.
The official website: www.latitudefestival.co.uk
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