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Latitude Festival @ Henham Park, Southwold, July 12 – 15!

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Latitude Festival @ Henham Park, Southwold, July 12 – 15!

It’s that time of the year again. Festival season is starting! And you need venture no further than Southwold to get your fix of fun, great music, and, quite probably, mud. Yes, this is Latitude Festival 2012, and this year’s as good as any – which is really, really good. There’s a killer line-up, with a long and varied recipe of music and arts performances that’s set to make a fantastic comedy-theatre-music-poetry sandwich.

When it comes to music, you’re in for a treat. On stage are American folk band Bon Iver, alternative rockers Elbow, singer-songwriter legend Paul Weller, BRIT Award winner Bat for Lashes, and new talent Ben Howard.

The comedy arena is absolutely packed with funny people, which is just as well really. There’s TV-famous comedians Rich Hall, Greg Davies, Reginald D Hunter, Lee Nelson and Shappi Khorshandi, not to mention The Infinite Monkey Cage, featuring science documentary hottie Brian Cox. (I’m there.)

For anyone literary-minded, Benjamin Zephaniah, Scroobius Pip and Tony Harrison are just three of the acts in the poetry arena, and Iain Banks, Dave Gorman and Siri Hustvedt are taking up camp in the literary arena.

But that’s not all Latitude has to offer – there’s the magical Faraway Forest, a contemporary art exhibition, and the theatre arena, featuring the National Theatre and local company HighTide.

One of the best things about Latitude is the local acts it shines a light on. Each year, three bands are chosen to play by BBC Introduction in Suffolk, and this year they’ve picked some great acts – ambient electronic band The Soft, rock n’ Rollers Dingus Khan, (who have three drummers and three bassists, whoops there goes my pants), and ‘Over The Top Pop’ Benjamin Bloom.

One thing’s for certain: IP1 will be sure to get down to Southwold this July! DJ

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