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Latitude 17th - 20th July 2008

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Latitude - Uncut

For the past two years, the Latitude festival has been the highlight of Uncut's summer, and we're thrilled to be involved again in 2008. The bands are invariably fantastic - not least, we have to say, from those who appear on the Uncut Stage. But the Latitude experience is about far more than music. With its brilliantly-programmed book, film, comedy and theatre arenas, the festival is a relaxed and compelling celebration of all the culture that Uncut holds dear. The atmosphere is perfect. The setting is unrivalled. And the raves in the woods are worth staying up all night for. Honestly, we couldn't ask for more from a festival - roll on July!

BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 was there at the very first Latitude Festival and is delighted to be coming back for the third year bringing with it more programmes than ever. Each year audiences were queuing over the fields to watch live recordings. New shows for this year include Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons, Bespoken Word (our performance poetry show), and live on Sunday morning BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme Broadcasting House. These will join returning shows such as Loose Ends and Poetry Please with Roger McGough.

Pimm’s

This summer PIMM’S® - everyone’s favourite summer drink - is going for laughs at this year’s Latitude Festival. It’s time to sit back, enjoy a glass of your favourite summer drink and get ready to chuckle your heart out this July in the Pimm’s comedy arena. In addition to the laughs at the Latitude Festival, the clever chaps at PIMM’S have teamed up with Festival Republic and come up with a brand new event – a fabulous five day festival of fun in September, to be held at a location in central London featuring nothing but the best of comedy talent, more details to be announced later. For more information and to find out more about Pimm’s this summer visit: www.anyoneforpimms.com

Aspall

Aspall are delighted to be returning to Latitude, this time with their Cyder Barn; a replica of the original Cyder House at Aspall Hall, dating back to 1728. Aspall produces a range of multi award-winning super-premium Suffolk Cyders, Speciality Vinegars and fine English Apple Juice at its site in Debenham, Suffolk. The company is now run by the eighth generation of the Chevallier Guild. All Aspall products are made without compromise and combine the experience and expertise of production, handed down through the family, with the latest in technological developments, to ensure all products maintain their consistently superior quality and flavour. There are no concentrates, additives, preservatives or water in any of our products and every product batch is tested and passed by a family member before it leaves the Cyder House.

Penguin Classics

This year, Penguin Classics is proud to bring the Penguin Classics library to Latitude, out on display in its full glory, for everyone to pick up the books and leaf through them at their leisure. The Penguin Classics library incorporates over 1,500 books spanning 2,000 years of literature. And what makes a Penguin Classic a classic? Simple. It has to be one of the 'best books ever written'. And that doesn't mean ladies with parasols strolling through Victorian gardens admiring the roses. It means love - at its most enthralling and its most heartbreaking. It means the best politics, psychology and philosophy since ancient civilization. It means the darkest criminal minds, the cheekiest minxes and the most inspiring heroes ever committed to paper. Sort of like Latitude really but with the creative writing spanning 2000 years.

 

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Line Up

Music Arenas

Franz Ferdinand
Death Cab For Cutie
The Go! Team
Amadou And Mariam
Sigur Ros
Elbow
Seastick Steve
Mars Volta
Interpol
Grinderman
Breeders
Tindersticks
M.I.A
British Sea Power
Foals
Blondie
Crystal Castles
Martha Wainwright
Julian Cope
Howling Bells
Sam Isaac
White Lies
Fields
Nic Dawson Kelly
Tallulah Rendall
Beth Orton
Deus
I Am Kloot
Aliens
Grammatics
Guillemots
Black Kids
Magistrates
Metronomy
Rosie & The Goldbug
The Joy Formidable
Wallis Bird
Godwits
Nada Surf
Murder By Death
House Of Love
Gravenhurst
Heloise & The Savoir Faire
Broken Records
Anya Maria
Billy The Kid
Beggars
Thomas Tantrum
Hold Fire
Joanna Newsom
The Coral
Wild Beasts
Clinic
Johnny Flynn
Lykke Li
Animal Kingdom
Slow Club
Errors
James Yuill
Johnny Foreigner
Gideon Conn
Jonquil
Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds
Sky Larkin
This City
Voluntary Butler Scheme
Kabeedies
Swanton Bombs
The Wave Pictures
Thecocknbullkid
Lovvers
a.P.A.t.T
Truckers Of Husk
Kyte
Matthew Sawyer And The Ghost
Derwyddon Dr Gonzo
The Beep Seals
Kategoes
Rod Thomas
Bearsuit
Elle S’appelle
Luke Leighfield With Tim And Sam’s Tim And Sam Band
Island Line
The School
These New Puritans
Team Waterpolo
Patrick Watson
Captain
Paul Heaton
Noah And The Whale
Micah P. Hinson
Those Dancing Days
Natty
Malcolm Middleton
Punch Brothers
The Shortwave Set
Gary Go
Soko
The Little Ones
Yacht
Nizlopi
Tom Baxter
Beth Rowley
The Bookhouse Boys
Emmy The Great
Wave Machines
Golden Silvers

The Pimm's Comedy Arena Line up

Bill Bailey
Ross Noble
Rich Hall
Otis Lee Crenshaw
Simon Amstell
Phill Jupitus and friends
Lucy Porter
Andrew Lawrence
Dave Fulton
Ben Norris
Jon Richardson
Dan Atkinson
Jason Wood
Carey Marx
Stephen Grant
Hal Cruttenden
Miles Jupp
Russell Howard
Tim Minchin
Stephen Grant
Omid Djalili
Frankie Boyle
Stewart Lee
Lee Mack
Robin Ince
Russell Kane
Arnab Chanda
Rufus Hound
Simon Day
Scott Capurro
Hans Teeuwen
Milton Jones


Theatre Arena Line up
Royal Court Theatre
Painesplough
The Bush Theatre
Pick Of The Pleasance
Fat Tongue
Birds Of Britain
Theatre 503
Dirty Protest
Dry Write
Sincera Productions
National Theatre New Connections
Royal Shakespeare Company
Ken Campbell’s School Of Night
Crazy In Love Presented By Paines Plough And Nabokov
Operating Theatre Company
National Theatre New Connections Present Abi Morgan’s Fugee
Royal Shakespeare Company Present work by Anthony Neilson and Adriano Shaplin
The Lyric Hammersmith Present Cartoon de Salvo and work from writers Lisa Asagi, Stacy Makishi and Jack Russell
Durang Durang

Literary Arena Line up

Vox 'N' Roll
Word Theatre
Marcus Brigstocke's Early Edition
Iain Banks
Hanif Kureshi
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 Normington
Jon McGregor
Andrew Glover
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 Osbourne
Dave Gorman
Mark Thomas
John King
Raffaella Barker
Toby Litt
Helen Walsh
Catherine O’flynn
Mark Barrowcliffe
Tania Glyde
John Williams
Michael Hodges
Mark Steel

Poetry Arena Line up

Carol Ann Duffy
Adrian Mitchell
John Hegley & Keith Moore
Simon Armitage
John Burnside
Attila The Stockbroker
Luke Wright
Daljit Nagra
Aolfe Mannix
Aisle 16
Joe Dunthorne
Porky The Poet
Teen Angst
Niall O'Sullivan
Joel Stickley
John Berkavitch
Rachael Pantechnicon
Kat Francois
Tim Clare
Ross Sutherland
Chris Hicks
Byron Vincent
Elvis McGonigall
Hovis In Wonderland
Poem In Between People
Yanny Mac Domestic Goddess
Dockers MC
Tim Wells
Nathan Filer
Andy Craven Griffiths
Hannah Walker
John Osbourne
Project Adorno Mik Artistik
Josh Weller
Jim Turnball
Paul Macjoyce
Kate Tempest

On The Lake

Sadler's Wells Featuring Wayne McGregor/Random Dance
Gaure Sharma
Tripathi
Blue Boy Entertainment
The Blank Album
The Irrepressibles

In The Woods

The Dialogue Project

Cabaret

Vauxhallville
How To Play The Ukulele In Under An Hour - By Sam Brown, Donal Coonan and Sally Phillips
Trippplicate
Gawkagogo Freakshow
Burly Q
Marisa Carnesky
The Launderettas
The Voguettes
Glitterbanditz

DJ's

Guilty Pleasures
Swap A Rama

Film And Music Arena

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
Mark Lamarr Presents: James Hunter And Pete Molinari
Postsecret
Jes Benstock
Future Cinema Live
Lautrec
George Pringle
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring
Future Cinema Live Presents: Guillemots/Eraserhead
A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures & Chris Waitt Q&A
Bishi
Johnny Flynn
Birds Eye View Presents*Juice Live Soundtrack To The Danger Girl
Hey Negrita/We Dreamed America
Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring & Buzzard Buzzard Visuals
Pivot
The Exploits Of Elaine & The Book Of Love
The Smoking Cabinet
English Language
Rubberheart
Sweet starring The Mighty Boosh
Darryl’s Hard Liquor & Porn Film Festival
Jes Benstock
Patti Plinko & Her Boy

BBC Radio 4 Arena

Just A Minute - featuring Nicholas Parsons, Ross Noble & Phill Jupitus
Loose Ends - featuring Peter Curran & Guillemots
Stories With Latitude - featuring John Hegley & Lucy Porter, with more to be announced
The Now Show - with Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn
Poetry Please - featuring Roger Mcgough
Broadcasting House - Presented by Martha Kearney
Bespoken Word - featuring Mister Gee
Writersroom

Other Latitude Links:

Latitude 2007 Info
Latitude 2007 Interviews
Latitude 2006

 


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