Latitude
16-19th July 2009
Click on a tab for more infoLatitude first burst into life in 2006, organisers drew their inspiration for the event from the format used by many of the European festivals. Certainly for the UK it offered something a little different and innovative but clearly European festivals do tend to have the edge when it comes to the weather!
From the start Latitude was never going to be just about music, neither was it going to just play lip service to the added dimensions of the festival. It was the first UK festival to bring you a full on range of performing art and its unique selling point was the fact that it provided individual arenas specifically dedicated to film, theatre, poetry, literature, cabaret, and comedy. So Latitude really was something of an experience where festival goers could expect to find top quality music alongside art, comedy, film, literature, theatre, performance art, dance, sculpture, workshops, restaurants and waiter service bars.
Set in in one of the most delightful festival sites in the UK Latitude is carving its own unique place in the festival circuit, offering new and different experiences for festival goers, aside from a few teething problems (much of it caused by lousy weather!) it seems to be living up to the promise - it''s a different festival offering much more than the norm for the more discerning out there.
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Line up to include
Music
Theatre Arena
Royal Shakespeare Company National Theatre The Bush Theatre Paines Plough Lyric Hammersmith English Touring Theatre nabokov Picks Of The Pleasance Tristan Bates Theatre Fuel Theatre Ben Moor 1927 Third Eye Theatre DryWrite OSIP Theatre The Rebel Cell National Student Drama Festival Theatre 503 School Of Night Mercury Theatre The High Llamas Adriano Adewale Teenager Of The Year
The Waterfront Stage
Sadler’s Wells Royal Opera House Britten Sinfonia The Irrepressibles DanceEast presents Les Moutons Riccardo Meneghini Hofesh Shechter Swan Lake Excerpt Freestyle Hip Hop From Psycho Stylez
Outdoor Theatre
Shlomo & The Vocal Orchestra SharpWire Faulty Optic Cambridge Touring Theatre Look Left Look Right Chipping Norton Theatre Mouth-To-Mouth Leonard The Grandees Tangled Feet Box Of Tricks Time Cats The Pantaloons The Dialogue Project La Prima Donna
Literary Arena
The School Of Life Robin Ince’s Book Club Blake Morrison Geoff Dyer Julie Myerson Tibor Fischer Afternoon Tea with Stuart Maconie plus special guests Mark Billingham Richard Milward Tobias Hill Laura Dockrill Luke Haines Emma Kennedy Shappi Khorsandi William Fiennes Mark Steel David Peace Clive Stafford-Smith Danny Wallace Political Animal: Hosted by Andy Zaltzman & Guests Russell Kane Jim Cartwright Hugh Thomson Anthropology Guerilla Science Jeremy Hardy Jonathan Coe Kate Williams Keith Allen Rupert Thomson Brian Chikwava Emmanuel Jal Bernie Katz Vivienne Westwood Sir Peter Blake Patrick Neate Hardeep Singh Kohli If:book The Future Of The Book Frank Skinner Grace Maxwell & Edwyn Collins Punk Fiction With Cathi Unsworth, Nicholas Hogg, Janine Bullman, Salena Godden, Dev Hynes, Lee Bullman Jake & Dinos Chapman Sketchatron Featuring The Penny Dreadfuls And Pappy's Fun Club
Literary Salon
Write To Play With Che Walker
Poetry Arena
Andrew Motion Brian Patten Jackie Kay Simon Armitage Patience Agbabi Luke Wright Jeffrey Lewis Aisle16 Paul Farley Luke Kennard Polar Bear Charlie Dark Mik Artistik Joel Stickley Kathryn Simmonds Dizraeli Elvis McGonagall Ross Sutherland Tim Clare Dockers MC Roger Lloyd Pack Nathan Filer Yanny Mac Kate Fox Aoife Mannix Baba Brinkman Byron Vincent Caroline Bird Drew Taylor Joe Hakim John Osbourne Martin Figura Molly Naylor Patrick Lappin Rhian Edwards Ruby And Her Whorses Excentral Tempest MC Angel Tamsin Kendrick Tim Turnbull Josh Idehen Daljit Nagra Aidan Moffat Ventriloquist Writers' Centre Norwich - Kei Miller & Roger Robinson Nathan Jones and Wave Machines The Petebox
Music & Film Arena
LateNightTales presents: Turin Brakes Live Acoustic Set, Chris Geddes & Belle and Sebastian DJ and B-MUSIC - Cross Continental Prog Pop Pilgrimage Mark Lamarr presents God’s Jukebox Jon Ronson Jeffrey Lewis Richard DeDomenici Comma Film The Paper Cinema & Kieron Maguire Patti Plinko & Her Boy Mark Lamarr Presents: T-99, Chas & Dave, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Prince Fatty Birds Eye View Presents Salome With Bishi, Zongamin & Neil Kaczor Cape Farewell Project Noise Of Art Ditto Sonver Adam Buxton Encounters Film Festival Presents Tom Harper & Ivana Mackinnon Beautiful & The Dammed DJs The Posters Came From The Walls Molly Nyman & Harry Escott Cabaret Arena Ida Barr Miss Behave Jonny Woo Timberlina David Mills London Swing Dance Society Dusty Limits Kalki Hula Girl Sarah Louise Young Revealing Eve Ward & White's Karaoke Circus Sounds Familiar Music Quiz Musical Bingo Future Cinema Presents Black Cat White Cat With Taraf De Haidouks Noise Of Art Presents ‘love Bites – The Dance Of The Vampires Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before With Kieran Evans, Adem & Friends Jeremy Deller Jeremy Warmsley One Eskimo London Short Film Festival Night Of The Living Dead – 3D ‘Age Of Stupid’ Plus A Q&a With Franny Armstrong And Ed Miliband Noah & The Whale Present ‘the First Days Of Spring’ Smoke Fairies
Comedy Arena
Jack Whitehall hosts: Latitude New Act Of The Year Guilty Pleasures Ed Byrne Mark Thomas Adam Hills Sean Lock The Early Edition with Marcus Brigstocke Sean Hughes Andrew Lawrence Rufus Hound Jon Richardson Russell Kane Shappi Khorsandi Jessica Delfino Dan Atkinson Carl Donnelly Holly Walsh Zoe Lyons Rob Deering Dave Fulton Swaparama Jo Brand Dave Gorman Tim Vine Janeane Garofalo Stephen K Amos Phil Nichol Charlie Baker Miles Jupp Matt Kirshen Seann Walsh Lee Mack Stephen Grant Rob Rouse John Gordillo Kerry Godliman Brendon Burns Jamie Kilstein
Cabaret Arena
Zimbani Deborah Francis-White I.O.U. Jessica Delfino Cardinal Burns Watson and Oliver Pippa Evans New Art Club Stuckey And Murray La John Joseph Dead Man In A Box Orkestra Del Sol Lenny Beige Kirsten O'Brien Bourgeois And Maurice Tommy And The Weeks Wanderlust Helix Dance The Whoopee Club Ima Doll Fancy Chance Ekat Beaux Belles Russella The Two Wrongies Miss Lady G Luck Simon Deville Des O’connor Lucifire Fat 45 The Penny Dreadfuls
In the Woods
The Scaremongers 'Faeries' An ROH2 commission by Will Tuckett
Pandora’s Playground
Sadler’s Wells Dance Club Scrabble Sunday Seraph Id Hide N’ Seek Bootworks Disco Shed
Ticket Info
Weekend Camping Ticket - Standard ~ £150
This is a standard weekend ticket with standard camping included. Required for all persons 13 and over.
Weekend Camping Ticket - Family Area ~ £150
This is a weekend ticket with camping, with a spot in the "quiet" or "family" camping fields. Each person 13 years of age and over within the family will require one of these tickets.
Note: This Is Not A Group Ticket and will only admit one person per ticket.
No single or groups of adults will be permitted in the Family Camping area unless accompanied by children 16 or under will be allowed.
Weekend Child Ticket ~ Free
Useful Contacts
Want to contact the organisers?
Festival Republic organise this one :
They have a comprehensive policy for people with different abilities and a proper complaints procedure.
35 Bow Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 7AU
Tel: 020 7009 3000
Website
The Council is responsible for granting and enforcing the license - they can be contacted at:
Beccles Town Council
The Walk
Beccles
NR34 9AJ
T: 01502 712109
E: enquiry@beccles.info
Website: www.beccles.info
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Positioned on the hill overlooking the luscious landscape of the Latitude site.
Uniting alternative worlds of cinematic wonder, musical splendour and visual brilliance, the Music & Film Arena is an exhilarating and intoxicating centre of creativity.
Positioned enticingly by the banks of the lake at the entrance to the main festival arena, Latitude’s perfectly placed Poetry Arena is a wonderful den of distraction.
Latitude celebrates the art of the written word and all its many splendid facets at Suffolk’s now legendary library by the sea.
This year the stage will once again showcase contemporary, modern dance from the world’s leading companies and choreographers.
With the involvement of the country’s leading theatre companies, Latitude has established itself as one of the best theatre festivals in Europe.
Now in its fourth year Latitude returns with a host of entertainment
Latitude continues to inspire and innovate; bringing the very best from the worlds of music, film, comedy, theatre, cabaret, dance, poetry, literature and art.
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