Wednesday 31 July 2013

Latitude Festival II

Saturday
First in the morning we headed to the Literature stage where we saw the end of the dead interviews about Nixon and Andy Warhol which were really funny. We then saw Germaine Greer who is a feminist and her talk was really inspirational and it was really interesting listening to her and her views. After we went to the lakeside stage and watched the ballet boys. They were as good as usual, especially dancing with only shorts on.
We then saw Matt Corby followed by Jessie Ware who was incredible. I have fallen in love with her track "Wildest Moments", its so much better live as well.
After food and a few drinks, Ellie and me went to watch Alt-J, which were pretty good  just wished that i had known more of their songs . We then went to the Caberet tent where I partied with mum and Ellie which was definitely a fun experience. On the way home we even took pictures with the animals (of sorts).

Sunday
First we saw  Alison Balsom with the English concert who is an amazing trumpet player with such an incredible natural talent. A very nice relaxing way to start the day. We then had lunch and went to watch Laura Mvula who was very relaxing. After we went to a talk by David Schneider called 'Is the internet making us stupider?'. It was really funny and showed a good examples of how we have always been stupid but now everyone is a lot more aware of it.
After some food we watched James Blake and then tried to watch Eddie Izzard but the tent was far to full, so instead we watched The Local Natives.
We then watched Rudimental which would have been really good but there was just to many 14/15 year olds wanting to constantly start mosh pits to songs which it was impossible to mosh too which was very frustrating. After was Disclosure who were surprisingly good even though I didn't know everything they played, they were so into their own music which was nice. We then saw foals but I was just so tired from the entire weekend that I may as well have been asleep!

Overall the entire weekend was absolutely brilliant. From the music to the literature and comedy the entire festival is done brilliantly and the fact that you get a night life as well means that there is always something to do for every age range to do at all time. Its a fantastic festival which really does live by its moto, if you want more than just music I can not recommend a better family fun festival if I tried!


















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