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