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Poet John Osborne talks about his plans for “the best weekend of the year”…
Darwin Deez is looking forward to seeing Grizzly Bear and Laura Marling at Latitude 2010…massive agreement from NEN.
. Check out our interview with BEN ROBINSON, Kendal Calling’s CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR. . More info: www.kendalcalling.com 30th July – 1st Aug 2010 . You started off with club night promotion and now you are running an 8,000 capacity festival, what inspired you to take the leap and how did it happen? When I started [...]
Sellindge Music Festival is the latest event to be pulled this summer, citing funding and a change of policy as the reasons behind the cancellation. . The website states: “Dear Friends It is with great regret that we have to make the very hard decision to cancel this year’s Sellindge Music Festival. 2010 has been [...]
The quirky and quintessentially cool Limetree Festival is once again lining up some of the biggest names in jazz, funk and soul for the third year running in the beautiful enclaves of Limetree Farm, Grewlthorpe, North Yorkshire on August 27 – 29 2010.
Joei Supernova talks to NEN about his plans for Latitude 2010. Sunshine, skanking and fresh socks included…
“I dressed up as a superhero. Tucked a tight t-shirt into my bananahammock and darted around in my mother’s tights and high heels pretending to be SuperInuaMan. Good times.”
Piñatas, harps and lasers…it could only be LA’s Pat Grossi, AKA Active Child
Les Enfants Terribles talk about their new musical ‘The Vaudevillains’ which features singing Siamese striplets, a psychopathic ventriloquist and a nervy knife-thrower…
Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy is added to the wonderful Latitude line-up!
4 local bands are being given the opportunity to play to thousands of people on the main stage at this summer’s Festival in the Park, organised by Kirklees Council and taking place in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury on Sunday 18th July.
Festival organiser Dan Hurring says of Sunrise “It sounds a bit crazy… but there’s a method to this madness. We’re trying to show how the whole world could be happier… and greener, if only more of us knew how to have fun in a field!”
Lissie was joined onstage recently by Ellie Goulding – the pair performed an impassioned version of ‘Everywhere I Go’, from Lissie’s forthcoming album.
Each year, Latitude has more and more exciting lures to entice the festival-goer with, and this year is no exception. Here are five features that are brand spanking new to the festival in 2010…
