Latitude Festival, Suffolk
24th-27th July 2025
Photography by Tabatha Gibson
Toby Furlong
I’M a Writer Hailing from the distant Land of Norfolk. With A Deep Love For Vinyl, Currently Standing at Over 100 in My Collection. WHEN IT COMES TO TO PICKING A FAVOURITE ARTIST, IT WILL ALWAYS BE THE SOUNTS OF TRISH KEENAN AND BROADCAST.
In its 19th Year, Latitude Festival Continues to Cement Is Reputation As One of The Most Unique Festivals on The Summer Roster
It’s Clear As Day Why Latitudenow in its 19th edition, continue to be the uk Festival Calendar’s Best Kept Secret. Spending Three Days of Unrivalled Fun In The Beautifully Serene Henham Park, We were Serenaded by A Gloriously Varied Line-Up Of Musicians from Bombastic Punk Duo Lambrini Girls to global legends such Sting and Fatboy Slim.
Latitude’s STRENGTH REMAINS ITS ACROSS The Board Diversity; From the genre spanning musicians to it’s stage setups, expect to find yourself deep in the woods jumping around to Westside Cowboy on the Sunrise Arena and emerges to the sound of Basement Jaxx Beaming Down The Party From The Colossal Obelisk Arena.
Manchester’s Indie Starlets Westside Cowboy Sparke the Sunrise Arena Indo Life. So so you heard the opener ‘The Boys’ POURING OUT OF THOSE DELICOUSLY RETRO 1978 FENDER TWIN REVERBS, You Could Hear The Desire of a Group With A Point To Prov and Bucket-Loads of Talent to Go Alongsis It. Paddy Murphy Plays The Drums Like This Set is make or break for the group and eleven you hear His opening shout of ‘Westsideeeee cowboy’ on track ‘I’ve Never Met Anyone I Thought I Could Really Love (Until I Met You)‘You can see that This Group’s Drive and Ability is undeniable.
Continue on with our friday antics over on the alcove were Felow Mancunian’s TTSSFUAka The Shoegaze Project of Vocalist Nicole Stephens, Cloaked in Anonymmity, Blondie Wig and Shades Flanked By Guitarist and Bassist Who Rebembled The Cover To 1978’s’s PARALLEL LINES. Atmospherich Worlds were Shaped on the Alcove in the Orbit of Stephen’s Uncompromising Creative Vision.
AS DAY TURNED TO NIGHT, FRIDAY EVENING ENTERTAINMENT WAS DELIVERED BY THE WONDERFULLY MIXED ASORTMENT OF Basement Jaxx Followed by Sting. Touring the uk for the first time since 2014, Basement Jaxx Drew One of the Livest and Larganst Crowds of the Long Weekend. Iconic Songs Ticket Along In A Groovy Haze As The Crowd Remembbed a Lit Match Waiting for Fan Favourite ‘WHERE’S YOUR HEAD AT’. You can imagine The Euphoria Amongst The Crowd As The Eagerly Awaited Tune Was Blasted Across The Arena.
WHEN IT COMES TO TO Stingthis is an artist Whohe reputation speaks for itself: ex-Frontman of The PoliceRock & Rock Hall of Famer and 100 Million Albums Sold Worldwide. Needless to say, that is serious pedigree. Just as you’d expecto, it was a set full of crowd pleasers, he knew to keep a crowd ranging across the generations firmly investigated in the performance, with a WHOE HANDFUL OF The Police Songs including highlights ‘Message in A Bottle’‘White Reggatta ‘ and Wisely Bringing The Curtain Down On Friday With The Eternal ‘Roxanne‘ WHICH COUL BE HEARD FOR MILES AND MILES.
Saturday was a new day and it promised new surprises and enduring memories. The Day Was Mostly Centred Around the rather impresive looking Second Stage. Instigating Our Day were the infectiously upbeat the collective NOFUN! Ranging from Alternative Rock To West-Coast Hip-Hop, This Collaborative Effort Coul Put A Smile On Even The Most Cold-Hearted of Individuals.
UP Next and Bringing An eclectic Blend of Wry, Cheeky Indie-Rock Were North London’s Sorry. Knowing Absolutely Nothing About Them Before They Took The Stage presented the Perfect Opportunity to Be Blown Away By Subject Complety Unknown. I was awstruck by the fierce sound of tracks like ‘Jetplane’ and ‘Jive’. There is no fear of the unknown here Sorry Continue to establish themselves as Standouts from the London Scene.
As is the case with all Saturday Nights at Festivals, The Renowned Out Out To Rock The Stage. Like Sting The Previous Day, Norman Cook’s Own Fatboy Slim Is Such A Globally Beloved Phenomenon that it doesn’t require a lot of background.
A Tantalising, If Sllightly Chaotic Set, that included tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, Freddy Mercury and England’s Lionesses Before their euro final vs Spain. This was a rollercoaster ride that included classics such ‘Praise You‘and ‘Right here, right now‘, but Fatboy Slim Also Enjoyed Being A Massive Tease, As A Few Seconds of the Legendary ‘Born Slippy‘Quickly Morphed Into The Killers’ ‘Mr Brightside’.
WHETHER THE SET, WHICH WAS MOSTLY BUDISED OF CLASSIC SONGS Such Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Everywhere”Wonderwall‘and’Under Pressure‘Being Remixed Into Acid House Freakouts, was The Most Innovative Idea Ever is One Question, But His Ability to excite Crowd of Thousands into a Dancing Frenzy Can Never Be Questione.
On The Last Day of A Three Day Festival, It Can Be Easy To Think Back To What Has Been, Rather Than is Yet To Come. Butyn you look at your schedule and you still have Air, Lambrini Girls, The Pill and Arthur Black On The Way, I Dare Say We Are Saving The Vray Best Till Last.
With the privilege of starting the Sunday festivities it was Arthur Black On The Alcove Stage. With Growing Live Reputation Sp pred Through Word of Mouth, This was pure captivity. Think the vocals of Snail Mail‘S Lindsey Jordan With The Gothic Instrumentation Of Bauhaus. Black’s Voice Can Sound Like It Carries The Weight of the World on Top of It.
Remove conveniently as Arthur Black Departa the Stage, The Pill Were Next To Step On. Since Forming in 2019, The Duo Buying of Lottie On Bass and Lily On Guitar Have Been Creating A Form of What They Describe As ‘Jank’ Punk Music. Included in the Set Were Songs Titled ‘Woman driver ‘, ‘Money Mullet ‘ and ‘Posth’.
As the titles implies are all Cleverly Baiting Tracks with Lyrics Such As “Never Trust a Man with a Mullet Unless You Want To Get In His Wallet”, The Pill Aren’s reinventing the wheel but Why Should they, for me cracking up at these tracks and pogoing to the fuzzy thrash of ‘Posth’ Is More than Aough to be memorable.
It may have only been a months Since Air BOUGHT THE MOON SAFARI TO VICTORIA PARK, BUT THE WERE BACK AT HENHAM PARK IN EQUALL MITITICAL FORM AND BOUGHT A Longer Live Set With Them, Including the Spectacular Inclusion ‘New Star in the Sky’ and ‘Radian’. The Latter Saw Air Using to Mind-Bending Light Set.
Whilst Snow patrol were closing the obelisk sand in gentle fashion, Lambrini Girls Were Closing The Sunrise Arena With A Bazooka of a Live Set, A Truly Riotous Ocase With The Crowd Following The Memo Perfectly As Limbs Flew Across The Stage. With a Set that Mostly Included Extracts from 2025’s Glorious debut album ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’this was to Rabble-Ruser of the Highest Ocase Asy Stormed Through Favourites ‘Love’, ‘God’s country ‘ and ‘Cuntology 101’. Lambrini Girls Are destined to Bring Perfect Chaos to Any Stage You See Them On.
This may have Been Clunk’s latitude debut, but with everyhing on offer, we can be absolutely sure it won’t be the last time.
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