Latitude Festival

Latitude Festival
Dates Mid July
Location(s) Suffolk, England
Years active 2006 - onwards
Website
www.latitudefestival.co.uk

The Latitude Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Henham Park, near Southwold, Suffolk, England. It was first held in July 2006. Latitude is said to be more similar to continental European festivals; as well as a comprehensive bill of musicians, bands and artists across four stages - The Obelisk Arena, The BBC Radio 6 Music Stage, The i Arena, and the Huw Stephens-edited Lake Stage - the festival comprises elements of theatre, art, comedy, cabaret, poetry, politics, dance and literature.

The festival is run by Festival Republic (formerly the Mean Fiddler Group), which also runs the Reading and Leeds festivals and up until 2013 was contracted to run Glastonbury Festival.

List of major acts 2006

Snow Patrol Headlining the Latitude festival 2006
Latitude Festival

Friday 14 July

Saturday 15 July

Sunday 16 July

List of major acts 2007

Day/Arena Obelisk Arena Uncut Arena Sunrise Arena The Lake Stage
Friday 13 July
Saturday 14 July
Sunday 15 July

Other acts appearing over the three days included the following

Security at Latitude 2007

Latitude 2007 was marred by a spate of thefts, in particular on the night of 12 July. Burglaries from more than 40 tents were subsequently reported to Suffolk Police. Inadequate security, including a decision by festival organisers, Mean Fiddler Music Group, not to engage a police presence on site for the duration of the festival attracted a degree of criticism.[1]

List of major music acts 2008

The 2008 line up was announced on 19 March 2008 with Franz Ferdinand headlining on the Friday, Sigur Rós on the Saturday, and Interpol on the Sunday.

Day/Arena Obelisk Arena Uncut Arena Sunrise Arena The Lake Stage
Friday 18 July
Saturday 19 July
Sunday 20 July

Other music acts due to appear

Other artists

Comedy Arena acts included:-

Friday - Andy Robinson, Robin Ince, Adam Bloom, Simon Day, Ben Norris, Marcus Brigstocke (standing in for Dave Fulton), Russell Howard, Daniel Rigby, Arnab Chanda, Ross Noble, Simon Evans, Lucy Porter, Phil Kay & Guilty Pleasures

Saturday - Stephen Grant, Dan Atkinson, Carey Marx, Tim Minchin, Scott Capurro, Jon Richardson, Bill Bailey, Jason Wood, Michael Fabbri, Jeremy Hardy, Miles Jupp, Rich Hall & Guilty Pleasures

Sunday - Rufus Hound, Russell Kane, Phill Jupitus, Steve Weiner, Andrew Lawrence, Frankie Boyle, Milton Jones, Lee Mack, Otis Lee Crenshaw, Stewart Lee, Hans Teeuwen, Omid Djalili & Swap-a-Rama

Film Arena appearances included:-

Barry Adamson, George Pringle, Halloween Film Festival, Chris Shepherd, Their Hearts Were Full of Spring and Grind A Go-Go from 'Oh My God! I Miss You...'.

In the Woods appearances:-

Dirty Protest Theatre

Latitude Festival 2009

The fourth edition took place on 16–19 July 2009. Acts that played include Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Thom Yorke, Grace Jones and Pet Shop Boys as the main headliners, alongside Editors, Doves, and Bat for Lashes. The headliners and ticket details were announced on the Latitude Festival official site on 23 March 2009, at 7pm and sold out near to the event. More acts were confirmed at around 12:00 pm on the following day. These acts had already been previously reported on BBC Radio 1, but denied by festival organisers. Also announced in the press were The Gossip. On 3 April 2009 the official Latitude website confirmed Magazine, Spiritualized and Newton Faulkner to be playing. In June, it was announced that Thom Yorke would play an exclusive solo set as the festival's special guest (a role taken by Joanna Newsom in 2008). BBC Radio covered the 4 day event with live music, comedy, sessions and interviews featured in shows across Radio 2, Radio 4, 6 Music and BBC Suffolk. The total attendance for the weekend was 25,000.

Day/Arena Obelisk Arena Uncut Arena Sunrise Arena The Lake Stage
Friday 17 July
Saturday 18 July
Sunday 19 July

The poetry arena included performances from Andrew Motion, Brian Patten, Roger Lloyd-Pack (performing T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land), Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage and Jeffrey Lewis; The Comedy Arena featured Jo Brand, Ed Byrne, Mark Thomas, Sean Lock, Adam Hills, Sean Hughes and Dave Gorman; The Theatre Arena showcased Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Bush Theatre and Paines Plough; The Literary Arena presented Blake Morrison, Jonathan Coe, Mark Steel, Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake, Frank Skinner and Luke Haines.

Latitude Festival 2010

Latitude 2010 (the fifth edition) took place on 15, 16, 17 and 18 July 2010. Initial lineup announcements were made at 7pm on Tuesday 9 March 2010.[2] Capacity for the event was increased substantially to 35,000.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Florence and the Machine
Empire of the Sun
Laura Marling
Spoon
Hockey
The Unthanks
Here We Go Magic
Kassidy

Belle & Sebastian
Crystal Castles
The Maccabees
James
Frank Turner
Corinne Bailey Rae
John Grant
Race Horses

Vampire Weekend
Rodrigo y Gabriela
The Temper Trap
Midlake
Dirty Projectors
Mumford & Sons
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
The Strange Boys
Tom Jones

The Word Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

The National
Richard Hawley
Wild Beasts
The Feeling
Angus & Julia Stone
Black Mountain
Villagers
The Kissaway Trail
Jonathan Jeremiah

The xx
The Horrors
Noah and the Whale
David Ford
Frightened Rabbit
Paul Heaton
School of Seven Bells
Joshua Radin
Chief

Grizzly Bear
Jónsi
The Coral
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Yeasayer
Kristin Hersh
The Big Pink
Jamie Lidell
The Antlers
Rox

Sunrise Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Girls
Tokyo Police Club
Luna Belle
Arno Carstens
I Blame Coco
Lissie
The Middle East
Holly Miranda
Delta Maid
Kurran and the Wolfnotes
Matthew P

Archie Bronson Outfit
First Aid Kit
Lonelady
The Lost Levels
Lauren Pritchard
O Children
White Belt Yellow Tag
The Hundred in the Hands
Michael Kiwanuka
Lupen Crook
Active Child

Darwin Deez
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
These New Puritans
Morning Parade
Jesca Hoop
Egyptian Hip Hop
Joe Worricker
Nadine Shah
The Liberty Vessels

The Lake Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Everything Everything
Islet
Engine Earz Experiment
Esben and the Witch
The Good Natured
Yuck
Y Niwl
Rose Elinor Dougall
These Ghosts
Aaron Wright

Frankie & the Heartstrings
Teeth
Nedry
Zun Zun Egui
Sweet Baboo
Standard Fare
Boycott Monday
The Supernovas
Clare Maguire
The Cads

Beth Jeans Houghton
Tom Williams & The Boat
Kelpe
Wilder
Mitchell Museum
Spectrals
The Quails
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian

Security at Latitude 2010

There was a reported gang rape on the first night of the festival which resulted in a heavy police presence for the remainder of the festival, including posters and flyers being handed out.[3] Crystal Castles criticised the rapists during their performance on the Main Stage calling the perpetrators "disgusting". A second rape was reported to have occurred on the second night though it attracted much less publicity than the first.[4] Women were advised against going anywhere on site unaccompanied.

Latitude Festival 2011

Latitude 2011 (the sixth edition) took place on 14–17 July 2011. The first line up announcements were revealed on 14 March 2011. The three Obelisk headliners were revealed as well as a number of other artists and acts appearing across all stages.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

The National
Paloma Faith
Bright Eyes
KT Tunstall
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Wanda Jackson
Edwyn Collins

Paolo Nutini
My Morning Jacket
The Cribs
Seasick Steve
Rumer
They Might Be Giants
Ed Sheeran

Suede
Hurts
Glasvegas
Iron and Wine
The Waterboys
Kele
Anna Calvi
Scala & Kolacny Brothers

The Word Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Bombay Bicycle Club
The Vaccines
Lyle Lovett and his Acoustic Group
Caribou
Deerhunter
Yann Tiersen
Chapel Club
The Duke and The King
Avi Buffalo

Foals
Echo and the Bunnymen
I Am Kloot
Bellowhead
British Sea Power
The Walkmen
Villagers
Adam Ant

Eels
Lykke Li
OMD
Everything Everything
Os Mutantes
The Naked and Famous
Carl Barat
The Leisure Society

Sunrise Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Cat's Eyes
Jenny and Johnny
Glasser
Cloud Control
Esben and the Witch
Crocodiles
Grouplove
Fool's Gold
The Phantom Band
Ben Howard
Safari
Our Fold
Braids

Steve Mason
Thea Gilmore
C. W. Stoneking
Fight Like Apes
The Head and the Heart
Trophy Wife
Dog Is Dead
Dionne Bromfield
Tripwires
Yellowire
Phildel
The Raghu Dixit Project
Man Made

Crystal Fighters
Gold Panda
Foster the People
The Bees
Caitlin Rose
Oh Land
The Heartbreaks
Marques Toliver
When Saints Go Machine
Treefight for Sunlight
Aaron Wright and the Aprils

The Lake Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Dutch Uncles
Admiral Fallow
Jonny
Still Corners
Various Cruelties
The Gentle Good
Brown Brogues
James Spankie
Gary Knock
Goldierocks

CocknBullKid
Tribes
Dels
Spector
Y Niwl
Fiction
Cerebral Ballzy
The B. Goodes
Gabriella Noble

James Blake
Dry the River
Fixers
Mazes
Ghostpoet
Clock Opera
Gwilym Gold
Sea of Bees
These Are End Times
Friends Electric

Latitude Festival 2012

Latitude 2012 (the seventh edition) took place on 12–15 July 2012. The first line up announcements were revealed on 5 March 2012. The three Obelisk headliners were revealed alongside the three Word Arena headliners, as well as a number of other artists and acts appearing across all stages. What was previously known as the 'Sunrise Arena' has been changed to the 'i Arena'.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Bon Iver
Metronomy
Janelle Monáe
Amadou & Mariam
Glen Hansard
First Aid Kit
Punch Brothers
Givers

Elbow
Laura Marling
Richard Hawley
Michael Kiwanuka
Esperanza Spalding
Baxter Dury
Mick Flannery
Sissy & the Blisters

Paul Weller
Ben Howard
Bat for Lashes
Simple Minds
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Alabama Shakes
Rufus Wainwright

Word Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

White Lies
Yeasayer
Lana Del Rey
Dexys Midnight Runners
The Antlers
The War on Drugs
Destroyer
Fatoumata Diawara
Lloyd Cole
The Silver Seas

The Horrors
SBTRKT
Deus
Low
Daryl Hall
Josh T Pearson
Lianne La Havas
Smoke Fairies
Sharon Van Etten

Wild Beasts
Buena Vista Social Club
M83
Battles
St. Vincent
Thomas Dolby
Jonathan Wilson
Gabriel Bruce

The i Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Tune-Yards
Kurt Vile
Howler
Dawes
Chairlift
Twin Shadow
Kindness
Foy Vance
Cold Specks
Breton
Iceage
The Field

Zola Jesus
Django Django
SoKo
I Break Horses
The Staves
Wooden Shjips
Of Monsters and Men
Team Me
Deap Vally
Sunless '97
Splashh
The Rumour Said Fire
Bwani Junction
Walls

Perfume Genius
Slow Club
Other Lives
King Charles
We Are Augustines
Daughter
Zun Zun Egui
Liz Green
Francois & the Atlas Mountains
Catherine Ad
Apparat

The Lake Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Clock Opera
Alt-J (∆)
Seye
Vadoinmessico
Poliça
Revere
We Have Band
Cate Le Bon
Tim Ten Yen
The Soft

Los Campesinos!
Toy
The Crookes
Kwes
Tall Ships
Theme Park
Paul Thomas Saunders
Sam Airey
Dingus Khan

Herman Düne
Lucy Rose
NZCA/Lines
Weird Dreams
Hooray for Earth
The Cast of Cheers
Peace
Gross Magic
Benjamin Bloom

Artists who also performed over the weekend include: George Fitzgerald, Mosca, Shy FX, Skittles, Tuesday Born.

Latitude Festival 2013

Latitude 2013 (the eighth edition) took place on 18–21 July. The first acts were revealed on 19 March 2013. What was previously known as the Word Arena had its official name changed to the BBC Radio 6 Music Stage. A brand new music stage has been announced for 2013, The Alcove Stage, which is said to be showcasing upcoming acts with many of the artists coming from the local area.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Bloc Party
The Maccabees
Cat Power
Yo La Tengo
I Am Kloot
Stornoway
Tim Burgess
The Leisure Society

Kraftwerk
Hot Chip
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Jessie Ware
Steve Mason
Efterklang
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Steve Mason
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires

Foals
Grizzly Bear
Local Natives
James Blake
The Tallest Man on Earth
Junip
Bobby Womack

The BBC Radio 6 Music Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Texas
Calexico
Villagers
Richard Thompson Electric Trio
Beth Orton
John Grant
Akron/Family
Willy Mason
James Skelly & the Intenders
Theme Park

Alt-J
Richard Ashcroft
Mark Lanegan Band
Everything Everything
Daughter
White Denim
King Charles
Matthew E. White
Gaz Coombes

Beach House
Disclosure
Rudimental
Cocorosie
Iamamiwhoami
Austra
Múm
Laura Mvula

The i Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Japandroids
DIIV
Widowspeak
Rachel Zeffira
Chvrches
sohn
Deptford Goth
Malcolm Middleton
Mikhael Paskalev
Young Wonder
Nick Mulvey
Naomi Keyte

Purity Ring
Rhye
Dark Dark Dark
Half Moon Run
Torres
Matt Corby
King Creosote
Wave Machines
Serafina Steer
Josephine
Drenge
The Bots
Thomas Dybdahl

Moon Duo
Tamikrest
Friends
Stealing Sheep
Sinkane
Fimber Bravo
Temples
James Yorkston
Hookworms
Money

The Lake Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Teleman
Sweet Baboo
Wolf Alice
Joe Banfi
Coves
To Be Frank

Veronica Falls
Gabriel Bruce
Jagwar Ma
Retro Stefson
Clean Bandit
Night Engine
Bo Ningen
Joanna Gruesome
Flamingods
Port Isla

Sam Smith
The 1975
Swim Deep
Dan Croll
Amateur Best
Valerie June
Georgia Ruth
Plaitum

Also performing or DJing over the weekend include: Abi Uttley, Anushka, Benin City, Bipolar Sunshine, The Busy Twist, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Chloe Howl, Dems, Duologue, The Establishment, The Family Rain, Gamu, Hero Fisher, Kins, Lizzie Bellamy, Lorca, Maglia Rosa Group, Marques Toliver, Milo Greene, MT Wolf, Mungo's Hi Fi, Ossie, Romare, Roy Davis, Jr., Ruen Brothers, Shox, Sivu, Superfood, Syd Arthur, Tuesday Born, Werkha, Zed Bias, Josh Record

Latitude Festival 2014

Latitude 2014 (the ninth edition) took place on 17–20 July. The first acts were revealed on 11 December 2013. The first headliner announced for the festival was going to be Two Door Cinema Club, but after their singer fell ill, Lily Allen headlined Friday night. Also announced to be performing include: Röyksopp, Robyn, Haim, Billy Bragg, Bombay Bicycle Club, Tame Impala, Slowdive, Hall & Oates, First Aid Kit, Booker T. Jones, Anna Calvi, Phosphorescent, Nils Frahm, Goat, Cass McCombs, Willis Earl Beal, Marika Hackman, San Fermin, Son Lux and Josephine Foster. On January 20, Damon Albarn was announced as the festival's second headliner via Twitter. The main headliners were The Black Keys [5]

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Lily Allen
Editors
Rudimental (surprise act)
Crystal Fighters
Kelis
Billy Bragg
Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
Slow Club

Damon Albarn
Bombay Bicycle Club
First Aid Kit
James
The Afghan Whigs
Booker T. Jones
Tinariwen
Ibibio sound machine

The Black Keys
Tame Impala
Haim
Chrissie Hynde
The Jayhawks
Phosphoresent

The BBC Radio 6 Music Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Mogwai
Slowdive
Anna Calvi
Goat
Temples
Sohn
Ásgeir
Hozier
Jimi Goodwin
San Fermin

Röyksopp & Robyn
James Vincent McMorrow
Daryl Hall and John Oates
Jungle
Conor Oberst
Agnes Obel
Damien Jurado
Dawes

Lykke Li
Clean Bandit
The War on Drugs
Augustines
Parquet Courts
Archie Bronson Outfit
George Ezra
Valerie June

Headliners from the i Arena including:

James Holden (Live)
Young Fathers
Future Islands
Nils Frahm

Headliners from the Lake stage including:

Bondax
Cate Le Bon
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Luke Sital-Singh

Latitude Festival 2015

Latitude 2015 took place on Thu 16th - Sun 19 July. The initial lineup was announced on the 10th of March and included headliners alt-J, Portishead, and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

alt-J
Caribou
Wild Beasts
Santigold
Femi Kuti & the Positive Force
Nitin Sawhney
Summer Camp

Portishead
James Blake
Laura Marling
Lianne La Havas
José González
Badly Drawn Boy
Benjamin Booker
JP Cooper

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Manic Street Preachers
Warpaint
Seasick Steve
The Boomtown Rats
Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens
Gareth Malone

The BBC Radio 6 Music Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Jon Hopkins
Django Django
Public Service Broadcasting
Toro y Moi
King Creosote
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Black Rivers
The Districts
SOAK

The Vaccines
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Savages
The Charlatans
Wolf Alice
Sun Kil Moon
The Thurston Moore Band
Drenge
Tom Robinson

SBTRKT
La Roux
Years & Years
Young Fathers
Kwabs
Kindness
A Winged Victory for the Sullen

The i Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Ezra Furman
Songhoy Blues
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Curtis Harding
Timber Timbre
Dolores Haze
Ed Sheeran (surprise act)

Clark
Kiasmos
Grandbrothers
Ibeyi
Leon Bridges
The Twilight Sad
Marika Hackman
Nadine Shah
Ben Khan
Haelos
Izzy Bizu

The 2 Bears
Zola Jesus
Adult Jazz
Jack Garratt
Shura
Susanne Sundfør
DM Stith
Admiral Fallow
Duke Garwood

The Lake Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

To Kill a King
Formation
Outfit
Sundara Karma
Man Made
Honne
Clarence Clarity

Prides
Pretty Vicious
Oscar
Petite Meller
Boxed In
Denai Moore
Clare Maguire
Neon Waltz

Rae Morris
Gulf
Aquilo
Eaves
Charlie Cunningham
Gwenno

Latitude Festival 2016

Latitude 2016 took place on Thu 14th - Sun 17 July. The initial lineup was announced on the 3rd of March and included headliners The Maccabees, The National, and New Order. The National became the first band to headline the festival twice.

Obelisk Arena
Friday Saturday Sunday

The Maccabees
Beirut
Father John Misty
Courtney Barnett
British Sea Power
Bears Den
Junun Feat. Shye Ben Tzur & The Rajasthan Express
Emmy the Great

The National
Chvrches
John Grant
Daughter
Squeeze
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Sturgill Simpson
Alif

New Order
M83
The Lumineers
Chet Faker
Laura Mvula
Michael Kiwanuka
Sidestepper
100 Voices of Gospel

The BBC Radio 6 Music Stage
Friday Saturday Sunday

Grimes
Slaves
Augustines
Christine and the Queens
Perfume Genius
Oh Wonder
Låpsley
HONNE
Phoria

Soulwax
Kurt Vile and the Violators
Half Moon Run
Poliça
Ratboy
Sun Kil Moon
The Thurston Moore Band
Drenge
Tom Robinson

SBTRKT
La Roux
Years & Years
Young Fathers
Kwabs
Kindness
A Winged Victory for the Sullen

See also

References

  1. "Thieves in the night". Bbc.co.uk. 2007-07-18. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  2. "Latitude Festival on Twitter". Twitter.
  3. BBC News (16 July 2010). "Woman, 19, raped at Latitude music festival in Suffolk". Retrieved 3 June 2011.
  4. BBC News (18 July 2010). "Second rape at Latitude music festival in Suffolk". Retrieved 3 June 2011.
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