Hey!
So, that first line of the last post has been hanging there for too long now. Relentlessly prodding me in the ribs saying "I thought you were going to write about Latitude, you big, hairy, internet liar". It's super annoying because he has this really sneery unpleasant voice and bony fingers.
So I said ENOUGH!
Latitude Festival 2010 - A retrospective.
Yeah, it was great. It always is, of course. It's just a top-quality festival. If you've never been, you should go at your earliest convenience. This year was my 4th time in a row. As I said in my
End Of The Road post last year, it may be due to me getting old, but I really appreciate a smaller, more relaxed festival with a greater variety of things to do. Seriously, while walking around, in addiction to the requisite bands you'd expect (more on them in a minute) I also saw multicoloured sheep, a travelling insect circus, ballerinas dancing on water, comedians being upstaged by a 10 year old in the front row, a short film about a talking dog and a bunch of weirdos dressed as various animals.
Ah yes, that was us. Yeah, someone had the idea of everybody bringing an animal costume. Now, thanks to my good friend Charlotte of
Dinohoodie.com, I was already well equipped to be a bear. However we also had
an Elephant,
a Lion and a Tiger,
a Wolf and oh yes...
another BEAR! At first this surplus of bears lead to
Strife but soon after we
Joined Forces to better terrorise our fellow festival goers.
But enough animal tomfoolery, what of the bands?! Well, I'm glad you asked.
Amongst the ranks were the ones I knew I would enjoy:
The National,
Jim Jones Revue,
The Kissaway Trail,
Belle And Sebastian,
Black Mountain. Then there were the ones I wanted to check out:
The Horrors,
Wild Beasts,
Yeasayer,
Richard Hawley,
The Antlers. Lastly there were the ones I'd never heard of who turned out to be amazing:
Grizzly Bear,
Jónsi,
Race Horses,
John Grant.
Oh yeah, and then there was Tom Jones (or ToJo as all the cool kids call him):
Yeah.
So, I don't know how many of those videos you watched but I hope it was all of them because they're all fantastic. That was my weekend. It was amazing. Which is even more incredible since it started so badly on the first night. First, I got chocolate sauce dripped on my head, which made my hair all sticky. This made me sad. Observe:
Then, perhaps more alarmingly than my hair being soiled, I lost my wallet with all my cash for the weekend in it. Gutted doesn't even come close. But it is testament to Latitude that I still had such a great time and hey, I got my wallet back at the end of the festival. All the money was gone but at least I got my 51p coin and my finnish trivial pursuit card back! Oh and my credit cards and driver's license.
Oh, one last thing. I met someone who reads this blog who isn't doing so because I nag them! I have spread to the friends of friends layer. My meteoric rise to fame begins!
Anyway, that is my review of Latitude 2010. I strongly recommend you check it out for yourself next year.
This post is brought to you by boxed red wine. Lovely, lovely wine.
All the pics in this post were taken by Kat (elephant costume), by the by. Team Latitude '10 comprised her, Andy, Chris, Chris, Kelly, Steve and Me!
