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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Latitude Festival

Arriving
It took about 5 hours to arrive at Latitude festival in Suffolk after we picked up my friend Ellie on the way. After unpacking and putting up the tent, the key festival item we went about having our BBQ before heading to look  around.
Once we entered the arena it was clear that it was going to be a festival like no other as I have never been to a festival which is based and surrounded by so much woodland. We were staying in family camping due to being with family friends which meant that it was a much tamer experience that that of someone who stayed in the normal site but we still had an amazing time and it meant that we had very nice toilets and showers. This to any festival goer will know is a luxury as instead of porta-loos we had toilets that always had toilet roles and flushed! A minor mirical in terms of festival settings.
After a wander around we found our selves at the waterfront stage where there was a type of dance piece on where large swans with girls dancing on them in the lake and a women hanging below a moon in the sky was taking place. It truly was magical and made you feel like you had in some way entered a parrellel universe. We then wandered into the woods where a DJ set was taking place and so spent the night dancing away before heading back to our tent to rest before the main action that started on Friday.

Friday
The day mainly consisted of an afternoon and evening of comedy where we saw Andrew O'Neill who is a crossdressing comedian and if you have never heard of him look him up. He was definitely the superb find of the day. We then watched Marcus Bridgestock who was hilarious doing sketches on the EU and then  followed by Sean Lock was as brilliant as ever.
In the morning we had seen Mark Thomas who talked about his 100 acts of minor decent which was great. He said about putting stickers on books with things like this book is available in charity shops, or books that you thought were crap putting stickers with the end on which is such a hilarious ideas and how he hates how much houses cost so he often protests outside really expensive homes. He also spoke about how he is taking pictures of police officers each day for a year which definitely seems like a tall order to me!
We then watched Nick Mulvey who is a very talented musician with incredible guitar skills that watching was truly inspirational. We then went to a talk on the brain and watched a jelly brain dissection which was really interesting. Especially learning that if you damage one side of your brain it doesn't damage one side it damages vision in both eyes say the right half! I also learnt that the top of your brain is responsible for your leg  functions and the bottom your head and arms.
After comedy and food we went back to the tent to get changed and have a drink or two before heading to see Bloc party who were AMAZING they played so many of their classics and the atmosphere was phenomenal.
We then went to the comedy tent where there was a disco type night called Guilty Pleasures. A group called the lip sinkers were great, all the music was great fun. I must have known every word to every song. There was another group of guys who danced on crutches wearing thongs and covered in glitter. The evening was definitely an experience to say the least!