Latitude Diary

Latitude Festival 12th-16th July 2007
Attendees: Glen Rowlan & Scott Rowlan
Review by Glen Rowlan


THURSDAY

16:00 – Arrived at the site, set up tent (we were stopped at the door because we had glass bottles so we poured all our beer into plastic bottles)

Lake Stage
19:00 – Screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’ accompanied by live orchestra, conducted by Robert Ziegler (Introduction by Mark Kermode)

Back to the tent for BBQ

Poetry Tent
22:00 – Aisle16 & Friends

We check out a really cool ethnic instruments stall

Music & Film Arena
23:00 – Beautiful & The Damned DJ’s
1:00 – Daft Punk’s Electroma

I trip over a log, then we go back to the tent


FRIDAY

We pass a small stage on the lake with an acoustic duo covering Bob the Builder

Uncut Stage
12:30 – Grace (short visit)

Comedy Tent
12:00 – Kevin Day
13:00 – Jon Richardson
13:30 – Russel Howard
14:30 – Mark Steel
15:30 – Paul Tonkinson
16:30 – Bill Bailey
I got ham but i'm not a hamster

Obelisk Stage
17:30 – Midlake

Lake Stage
18:30 – Metronomy (in the hot sun)

Obelisk Stage
19:30 – The Magic Numbers (caught the last song)
20:00 – Wilco
21:30 – Damien Rice (short visit)

Uncut Stage
21:45 – Partick Wolf (short visit)

Dinnertime/Stall Shopping… Scott buys a Wilco t-shirt

Comedy Tent
22:30 – Guilty Pleasures

Poetry Tent
1:00 – Aisle16 & Friends (short visit)


SATURDAY

Comedy Tent
12:00 – Sarah Millican
12:30 – Matt Welcome
13:00 – Lee Mack
14:00 – Russell Kane
15:00 – Paul Zenon
15:30 – Dylan Moran

Obelisk Stage
16:00 – Herman Dune (caught the last song)
16:30 – Bat for Lashes
17:30 – The Hold Steady

Walking through the woods, we caught bit of a theatre group performing The Tempest

Sunrise Arena
18:30 – Simple Kid

Obelisk Stage
20:00 – CSS

We head back to the tent and we get a fire going and chat to the neighbours (three of whom went to Keele)

Comedy Tent
00:00 – Guilty Pleasures

We realise the music is really crap at Guilty Pleasures so we go for a dance at the Lake Stage, and someone compliments my dancing


SUNDAY

Queuing up at the Deli, I buy a Latitude t-shirt

Sunrise Arena
12:30 – Peter And The Wolf

Uncut Stage
14:10 – Ra Ra Riot (short visit)

We eat lunch by the uncut stage and we see Charlie, the hubbabubba nightmare chewing gum

Obelisk Stage
14:30 – Au Revoir Simone
15:30 – Andrew Bird (fell asleep)
16:30 – The National (after this we go to buy some funky green glasses)
17:30 – Cold War Kids
18:30 – The Rapture
20:00 – Jarvis Cocker
21:30 – Arcade Fire
No Cars Go was the best moment of the festival for me... i just went crazy

We chill out by the lake stage, eating BBQ food

Comedy Tent
23:00 – Guilty Pleasures

Literary Tent
23:30 – Robin book club (short visit)

Short visit to the woods for a rave, then back to the tent


MONDAY

While we’re packing up the tent a swarm of bees pass over our heads

13:00 – Head home

Floods!

Here are some pictures taken in Wallington last week...

The Graduate

Few more photos

Look! It's that same red spider... it knows what I did last summer.

















Spooky clouds
































Zen Glen






















My wall of wonder/corkboard of curiosity






















Hidden place

10 Years On

A decade ago today was the release of Radiohead's third LP Ok Computer. After hearing this album for the first time, my musical outlook was changed forever. I remember the day i went to the shops when i was 11 to buy the cassette, and i came home and played it non-stop. It was the first time i began to really appreciate music not just as entertainment, but as an art form and a creative outlet.

Here's my way to pay tribute to one of the greatest rock records of all time...A clip of my favourite song Paranoid Android from Later with Jools, 1997:

so today, on my way to the library...

i saw this...

i <3 ribena

Daisy

More...

amusing fibs for those pesky small kids...
















:D

Weeeeeeee!

So i've just finished my first (and last) exam, and thus... completed my degreeeeee...



Now what...?














STAR WARS NIGHT!

Voila!

All coursework done!



One exam to go...

Puppy!

Home for Easter

Last Resorts...

Chip or Dale...

It snowed again...

Not sure who that man was, but he wanted to be in the photo.

Throw it on the Fire

I am especially proud of Belle Orchestre, not only because they rawk, and they once supported Arcade Fire, and they have this cool new video, but because I am so proud that I "discovered" them.



And I'm currently listening to...

Panda Bear - "Take Pills"
Stars of the Lid - "Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)"
Of Montreal - "Sink the Seine"
Sufjan Stevens "Detroit" (Live In New York)
Arcade Fire - "My Body Is A Cage"
The Shins - "Sea Legs"
Air - "Mer Du Japon"
Destroyer - "Rubies"
Elliott Smith - "Everything Means Nothing To Me"

Steadily Advancing...

...is the Ceramic City Choir/Keele Philarmonic Choir/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's highly anticipated (hopefully well-rehearsed) performance of Elgar's 'Dream of Gerontius', in which i will be performing in the bassiest (manliest) section at the Victoria Hall on 29th April '07.

Here's the dreamy flyer...

To The Moon!