Latitude Festival 2009: Artist Interviews Part 1
This first instalment of interviews includes The Chakras, Luke Wright, Dave Fulton, Catherine A.D. and La JohnJoseph. June 6, 2009, 12:52 PM Views: 921
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by jack s [More from this Author]  The pioneering, genre-defying, award-winning Latitude Festival returns to England’s Sunrise Coast for another spectacular year. Taking place on 16th – 19th July, near Suffolk’s stunning sea-side town of Southwold, organisers Festival Republic are promising Latitude will be the perfect British summer destination.
In the run up to one of the biggest summer festivals, some of the artists taking to the stages gave us press bunnies some wonderful interviews. This first instalment of interviews includes; The Chakras, Luke Wright, Dave Fulton, Catherine A.D. and La JohnJoseph.
Are you attending the festival this year? Check out the latitude press release and have your say on who you are looking forward to, just click reply!
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THE CHAKRAS - ROCKY (VOCALS) OBELISK ARENA
1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why? Saw Nick Cave in Dublin Castle and was ridiculously impressed with the performance, he’s not a small man, really looking forward to Spiritualised, Editors and Doves as well but probably looking forward most to wandering around and finding new bands. 2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? Place to find interesting new music and sure you know I love the camping. 3. What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? I’ll probably bring some fine wine from Aldi and maybe a bit of sunshine if I’m arsed. 4. If you weren't doing this what would you be doing? Fisherman in deadliest catch or maybe I’d bring people diving in cages to see Great Whites. 5. What do you always bring to a festival? Yokes 6. Have you been to Latitude before, and if so, what has your favourite performance been? First time this year. 7. Do you have any festival tips for those in attendance at Latitude? Come and watch us 8. What is your favourite colour Sheep? White, it’s way too obvious to say black ______________________________ _____________ LUKE WRIGHT - POETRY ARENA  1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why? Well, I'm biased but I think Nathan Jones & Wave Machines in the Poetry Arena will be ace. So will Aidan Moffet, Molly Naylor, Rhian Edwards and Ross Sutherland. Outside of poetry I'm really looking forward to seeing some comedy and chilling out with my wife and new baby in the woods and down by the lake. 2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? I relish the task of managing my arena, but also the stark contrast between this and the calming nature of just slowly walking around the site taking in all the beautiful people and displays. 3. What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? I'll be trailing material from my new show The Petty Concerns of Luke Wright, as well brushing the dust of festival favourites like Camping Dad and Embrace The Wank. 4. If you weren't doing this what would you be doing? At home with my wife doing nothing. 5. What do you always bring to a festival? Black plastic bags (years of Glasto training) and rum. 6. Have you been to Latitude before, and if so, what has your favourite performance been? I really enjoyed Jarvis Cocker in 2007, but the best thing has got to be Carol Ann Duffy last year in The Poetry Arena. 7. Do you have any festival tips for those in attendance at Latitude? Don't panic, go with the flow and let yourself be surprised by new and different performances. 8. What is your favourite colour Sheep? Pink! ______________________________ _____________ DAVE FULTON - COMEDY ARENA
1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why? Probably Nick Cave (& the Bad Seeds) as I sometimes still can't believe he's still alive all things considered. 2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? Considering my motorcycle broke down on the way there last year I guess just getting there would interest me the most. 3. What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? I'm a white American male that does stand-up comedy. People like me are not full of whimsy nor do I have an accent that makes people think I'm interesting. All I have is an opinion and the ignorance that maybe someone out there is willing to listen to that and if I'm really lucky anyone within earshot will enjoy it hopefully as much as I'm lucky enough to. 4. If you weren't doing this what would you be doing? Climbing. 5. What do you always bring to a festival? I don't know what I'd bring to one of these because I've never been to one. 6. Do you have any festival tips for those in attendance at Latitude? Don't get me high. 7. What is your favourite colour Sheep? Black...no red...any colour that goes with the steel rod shoved through them so they can be roasted later. ______________________________ _____________
CATHERINE A.D. - SUNRISE ARENA  1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why? I'm looking forward to seeing Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Grace Jones. Looking forward to Nick Cave is a daily activity for me. I saw them at the Troxy in East London on their last tour and the whole building shook. Grace Jones will bound to be wearing something I want to steal. I also want to catch The Mummers and Sonver. 2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? The fact that I'm playing on a stage in a woods intrigues me. Will we be powered by woodpeckers..? 3. What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? I will be bringing the entire Bad Seeds back catalogue so I can hunt down Nick Cave backstage for an enforced signing and good time karaoke session... Then I shall kidnap him. Apart from that? Paisley black Wellingtons, Ebows, plenty of glitter and a virtual gospel choir of evil dwarves is what you expect from me and the band. 4. If you weren't doing this what would you be doing? If I wasn't a musician, writing short stories and living in America working as an overdressed librarian. If I wasn't at Latitude? I would be practicing my guitar and swearing at Logic. 5. What do you always bring to a festival? This will be my first festival show so I shall be bringing virginity. 6. Do you have any festival tips for those in attendance at Latitude? 1. Baby wipes and apples. There's a war out there. 2. Go and see nick cave. Go and see me. 3. Go geek and plan what you want to see and synch your iCal with your Blackberry. I always plan my festival viewing with military precision... but then it all goes to hell as soon as you smell the cider and you end up using the programme as a makeshift parasol/hat/seat. 7. What is your favourite colour Sheep? Black, of course. Although, fact fans, black is strictly speaking not a 'colour', but an absence of colour. We call it a way of life... It's always better on the outside. ______________________________ _____________ LA JOHNJOSEPH - CABARET ARENA  1. Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year’s Latitude festival across the Arenas (Obelisk, Uncut, Comedy, Theatre, Literary and Poetry, Film & Music) and why? It's going to be something of a family reunion for me at Latitude this year. Little Boots is a friend of my sister's from school, and some of my very favourite people in the world are in The Irrepressibles, so more than anything I'm looking forward to seeing them. Of course, I wouldn't mind making new friends, should anyone (i.e. Grace Jones) care to. 2. What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? I think it's pretty groovy that the festival has so many writers and poets in amongst the music and comedy acts. People my age seem to have stopped reading, literatures so underrated in the golden age of Youtube. Three cheers for Latitude and her books! 3. What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? People can expect whatever their filthy little hearts desire, but what they'll get is a transdrogynous entertainment spectacle, a riotous set of songs and stories inspired by my life in New York. Oh, and an amazing dress made out of paper aeroplanes, by Faye-Michelle Turner. 4. If you weren't doing this what would you be doing? Rolling around in a gutter somewhere with the rag tag bunch of trannies and punks I call my friends. Or reading "Winnie the Pooh"with my niece, depending on the weather. 5. What do you always bring to a festival? Condoms and lavender facial mist. 6. Have you been to Latitude before, and if so, what has your favourite performance been? This is my first trip, in fact it's my first Summer in the UK for five years, so I'm very excited. From what I remember people in the UK go delirious and strip off as soon as the first ray of sun is seen, I like that spirit of adventure and hope to encourage it. 7. Do you have any festival tips for those in attendance at Latitude? I am absolutely the last person you should ask practical advice of. I just get shoved in a car, pushed onstage and then put back into storage. I have literally no idea how to put up a tent or get the grass stains out of your pants. In fact, I encourage you to sleep on the ground and enjoy your soiled clothing. Prepare for those ever closer post-apocalyptic days I say. 8. What is your favourite colour Sheep? I love the whole rainbow of sheep, and seeing them all strolling about like a fleet of macaroons on legs is something I am looking forward to immensely. ______________________________ _____________
Look out for more interviews & New artist Additions in the build up to Latitude '09
Interview Credit: Press Council / Xtra Mile
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