Latitude additions - Saint Etienne, The Temper Trap, Frank Skinner, Lee Mack ...

16th – 19th July 2009
Henham Park Estate, Southwold, Suffolk

2nd June 2009

UNCUT ARENA
~ Saint Etienne ~ The Temper Trap ~

SUNRISE ARENA
~ Kap Bambino ~

FILM & MUSIC ARENA
~ Future Cinema Presents Black Cat White Cat with Taraf de Haidouks~
~ Noise Of Art presents ‘Love Bites – The Dance Of The Vampires ~
~ Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before with Kieran Evans, Adem & Friends~
~ Jeremy Deller ~ Jeremy Warmsley ~
~ One eskimO ~ London Short Film Festival ~
~ Night Of The Living Dead – 3D ~

LITERARY ARENA
~ Frank Skinner ~
~ Grace Maxwell & Edwyn Collins ~
~ Punk Fiction with Cathi Unsworth, Nicholas Hogg, Janine Bullman, Salena Godden, Dev Hynes, Lee Bullman ~

COMEDY ARENA
~ Lee Mack ~Stephen Grant ~ Rob Rouse ~ John Gordillo ~ Kerry Godliman ~

CABARET ARENA
~ The Whoopee Club ~ Ima Doll ~ Fancy Chance ~ Ekat ~
~Beaux Belles ~ Russella ~ The Two Wrongies ~
~ Miss Lady G Luck ~ Simon Deville ~ Des O’Connor ~

The pioneering, award-winning Latitude Festival returns to England ’s Sunrise Coast for another spectacular edition. Taking place on 16th – 19th July, near Suffolk ’s stunning seaside town of Southwold , organisers Festival Republic are promising Latitude will be the perfect British summer destination.

UNCUT ARENA

The impressive structure of the tented Uncut Arena houses a line-up of alternative, leftfield music; a hotbed of genre-spanning artists all offering something unique. This year will once again host a myriad of musical musts from the fields of folk, world, experimental, electronica, rock, indie and any other musical style you can think of. It’s all on offer at the Uncut Arena. Playing this year are Spiritualised, Bat For Lashes, Gossip, Magazine, Mew and Ladyhawke plus many more and joining them will be:
Indie dance trio Saint Etienne who successfully fused the British pop sounds of '60s London with the club/dance rhythms and productions that defined the post-acid house England of the early '90s. Led by songwriters Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, and fronted by vocalist Sarah Cracknell, they spearheaded this cross-over genre and racked up a string of indie hit singles that were driven by deep club beats, encompassing anything from house and techno to hip-hop and disco, and layered with light melodies, detailed productions, clever lyrics, and Cracknell's breathy vocals. They revived the sounds of swinging London, as well as the concept of the three-minute pop single being a catchy, ephemeral piece of ear candy and produced such classics as ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’, ‘He’s On The Phone’ and ‘You’re In A Bad Way’.
Australian rock band The Temper Trap also join the line-up. Their atmospheric sound with grand guitars, driving rhythms and soaring vocals set the music industry alight at the showcase Musexpo in London last year and again in SXSW in March of this year. With current single ‘Science Of Fear’ receiving mass acclaim and hotly tipped debut album ‘Conditions’ out later this year, this is a band destined for big things.

SUNRISE ARENA

Take a stroll through Latitude’s fairytale woods with art exhibited within the trees and dappled sunlight shining through the leaves and you will stumble across the most exquisite space of all; the Sunrise Arena, home to tomorrow’s biggest stars. Confirmed so far are Little Boots, Passion Pit, !!! and 65 DaysOfStatic and just added are:

Electronic musical duo Kap Bambino who hail from Bordeaux in France . Known for Caroline Martial's wild vocals, Orion Bouvier's electronic mixes and their animated, frenetic live performances they’ve been likened to Crystal Castles and The Advantage. Kap Bambino use bleeps and bloops of old-school videogames sampled with dancefloor-beats making raw-edged, hyperactive, and gothy electro-punk songs. They also run their own label, Wwilko Recordings, which released their sold-out debut album, ‘Zero Life, Night Vision’.

FILM & MUSIC ARENA

Uniting alternative worlds of cinematic wonder, musical splendour and visual brilliance, the Film & Music Arena is an exhilarating and intoxicating centre of creativity. Over the festival weekend the Arena will play host to screenings of award winning films, documentaries and shorts with Q&A sessions plus discussions with acclaimed directors and writers. These will be interspersed with musical treats and stunning, transfixing visuals combining together to create a seductive, sensory playground for all ages.

Future Cinema Black Cat, White Cat, a Gypsy fuelled music and film experience that will shake the Film and Music Tent at Latitude this year. Inspired by Kusturica’s cult film featuring the legendary Gypsy Band, Taraf De Haidouks, one of the biggest gypsy bands in the world who will start to play near the Obelisk Arena after the last concert and travel to the Film and Music tent collecting a large following on the way. When the audience arrive at the Film and Music tent, they will enter a Gypsy Wonderworld with music, short films and walkabout characters creating a live experience of the ‘Black Cat, White Cat’ followed by a screening of the film.
Noise of Art is delighted to debut "Love Bites", a contemporary dance of the vampires, at Latitude festival. In partnership with the BFI and films from the National Archive, Noise of Art will feature some of the earliest Vampire silent films (the Vampire genre goes back to 1909 - 20 years before Nosferatu was made). The sound track to Love Bites has been specially created for Latitude festival by a collaboration between They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Serge Santiago and Les Hommes Du Train (the alter ego of Noise of Art founder) Ben Osborne. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them are veterans of the UK 's indie dance scene and are the closest thing the contemporary music world has to legendary Kraut rockers, Can. The band are currently going through a purple patch, with recent songs becoming surprise radio hits, TV Commercial music and TV themes, while their live shows have seen them spread their wings from playing rock venues to pack out nightclub dance floors. Serge Santiago carved a name for himself as resident at legendary long running disco ‘Stompa Phunk’ and as half of the legendary Radioslave production duo with Matt Edwards, he is currently renowned as the UK 's foremost producer of contemporary Italo Disco. Taking his inspiration from the film scores of people such as Jon Carpenter, his music is often dark and moody and always percussively complex. And he's guaranteed to get any dancefloor going. Les Hommes Du Train uses analogue sounds and live recording techniques resulting in dance music that embraces disco, techno, dub, house and rock, without being any of them! Love Bites will be preceded by a unique live version of Piccadilly Nites, featuring 80 year old silent movie footage of London clubbers filmed in 1928, set to new club music by Les Hommes Du Train. The Immaculate Extremists will perform the interactive Love Bites vampire show for the first time at Latitude festival; the performances will emerge and blend into the dancefloor ….and to complete the 360 degree experience, Prick Image's unique flying projections will ensure the vampires are not confined to the dancefloor.
Artist and Turner Prize Winner, Jeremy Deller will give a talk at Latitude in the Film & Music Arena. In huge demand, Deller has recently displayed his latest installation in Louis Vuitton’s newly opened store and was also one of the six selected nominees for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square . His project 'The Spoils of War (Memorial for an Unknown Civilian)’ is an idea which took him all over America towing the burned-out wreck of a car blown up in a suicide bombing in Iraq to discover the reactions to this lump of twisted metal. Deller will also answer questions from the floor with director Nicholas Abrahams about their documentary ‘The Posters Came From The Walls’, a fascinating and inspired study of Depeche Mode fans from around the world which will be played in full on Friday at Latitude.
'Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before’ is a feature documentary about influential UK singer songwriter Vashti Bunyan, directed by acclaimed UK filmmaker Kieran Evans. The enigmatic singer-songwriter retraces the journey across the British Isles that led her to record her first album, the hugely influential ‘Just Another Diamond Day’. Featuring a performance from contributor Adem live onstage, this is an honest and informative insight into Vashti’s place in the most creative period of twentieth century popular music.
Half English, half French solo artist Jeremy Warmsley will be performing the bizarrely beautiful songs of Tom Waits and Daniel Johnston. A fantastic singer songwriter, Warmsley dabbles in madcap electronic explorations to create dynamic and influential combinations; Warmsley has received critical and commercial acclaim with his two albums ‘The Art Of Fiction’ and ‘How We Became’. He is however, also renowned for his stunning videos that accompany his singles. Beautiful shorts, timed perfectly with the music, they visually tell the story the music is portraying.
Produced by Rollo of Faithless, One eskimO, are a four piece, animated band consisting of a penguin, an Eskimo, a giraffe and a monkey. Together they make beautiful blissed-out music full of soulful vocals, ambient beats and laid-back grooves. At Latitude they will be bringing the worlds of film and music together, the band (consisting of Kristian Leontiou on vocals, Adam Falkner on drums, Pete Rinaldi on guitar and Jamie Sefton on bass and horns) play in front of a big screen showing stunning films of the trials and tribulations of One eskimO and friends. The cartoon characters and their enchanted world are conjured up by Passion Pictures who are the team behind Gorillaz and the video to recent single ‘Hometime’ won the Public Choice Award at the 2008 British Animation Awards.
The London Short Film Festival presents the cream of the short film crop, celebrating the art of the moving image in all its forms alongside a strong programme of live music and multi-media events. For Latitude’s Film & Music Arena they will be bringing the new award-winning film-makers of the future with this choice selection.
Inspired by last year's RSC zombies, we will be handing out 3D glasses for a special screening of 'Night of the Living Dead',the horror movie that influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype. The 2006 version is the second remake of the 1968 horror classic and this version of the movie has been made into a 'funny, so bad it's good' film, with great 3D effects. The perfect start to a night out in the woods...
Also in the Film & Music Arena is LateNightTales, Cape Farewell Project, Encounters Film Festival as well as Mark Lamarr presenting God’s Jukebox with: T-99, Chas & Dave, The Flirtations, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour and Prince Fatty, plus much, much more.