The award winning Latitude returns to Henham Park in Suffolk over the weekend of 16th-19th July 2009, organisers Festival Republic are touting Latitude as the perfect British summer destination. Having been to two out of the three festivals so far, I can pretty much agree with this suggestion due to it’s beautiful setting being a stone’s throw away from the wonderful seaside town of Southwold.

2009 Photos
Friday – Saturday – Sunday

Also why not have a look back at some of our photos from last year’s event.

Tickets are on sale via the official Latitude website.

Have a look at our series of interviews with artists appearing at Latitude this year, The Doves, The Editors, White Lies, Robin Ince and Ruby and her Whorses.

2009 Line-up

Obelisk Arena:
Phoenix,The Gaslight Anthem, The Rumble Strips, Thom Yorke, Datarock, Patrick Wolf, The Airborne Toxic Event, Lisa Hannigan, Amazing Baby, Wild Beasts, Sound Of Guns, White Lies, Pretenders, Flashguns, The Chakras, Regina Spektor, Petshop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Doves, Editors

Uncut Arena:
Mika, Scott Matthews, The Duckworth Lewis Method, Emmy The Great, Saint Etienne, The Temper Trap, Marnie Stern, iLiKETRAiNS, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Chairlift, The Mummers, White Belt Yellow Tag, The Invisible, Squeeze, Mew, Ladyhawke, Teitur, Music Go Music, Hjaltalin, Magazine, Newton Faulkner, Bat for Lashes, Spiritualized, Gossip

Sunrise Arena:
Charlotte Hatherley, Kap Bambino, 65 Days Of Static, Asaf Avidan and The Mojos, !!!, Skint And Demoralised, 1990s, Animal Kingdom, Black Joe Lewis, Fight Like Apes, Kurran and the Wolfnotes, Juliette Commagere, Band Of Skulls, Yes, Giantess, Sugar Crisis, Dear Reader, Catherine AD, Jonathan Jeremiah, Alan Pownall, First Aid Kit, Passion Pit

The Lake Stage:
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sketchatron featuring The Penny Dreadfuls and Pappy’s Fun Club, Colorama, Bombay Bicycle Club, Little Comets, Casiokids, Marina and the Diamonds, Speech Debelle, Chew Lips, Django Django, Bishi, The Agitator, The Cheek, Not Squares, Golden Silvers, Slow Club, We Have Band, Post War Years, The XX, Pulled Apart By Horses, Joe Gideon & The Shark, Dag For Dag, 2 Hot 2 Sweat, The Late Greats

Music and Film Arena:
‘Age Of Stupid’ plus a Q&A with Franny Armstrong and Ed Miliband, Noah & The Whale present ‘The First Days Of Spring’, Smoke Fairies, 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, Molly Nyman & Harry Escott, Cape Farewell Project, Noise Of Art, Ditto, SonVer, Adam Buxton, Encounters Film Festival presents Tom Harper & Ivana MackinnonBeautiful & The Dammed DJs, The Posters Came From The Walls, Comma Film, The Paper Cinema & Kieron Maguire, Patti Plinko & Her Boy
LateNightTales presents: Turin Brakes Live Acoustic Set, Chris Geddes & Belle and Sebastian DJ and B-MUSIC – Cross Continental Prog Pop Pilgrimage.
Mark Lamarr presents: T-99, Chas & Dave, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Prince Fatty, God’s Jukebox, Jon Ronson, Jeffrey Lewis and Richard DeDomenici.
Birds Eye View presents: Salome with Bishi, Zongamin & Neil Kaczor,

Comedy Arena:
Brendon Burns, Jamie Kilstein, Lee Mack, Stephen Grant, Rob Rouse, John Gordillo, Kerry Godliman, Jo Brand, Dave Gorman, Tim Vine, Janeane Garofalo, Stephen K Amos, Phil Nicol, Charlie Baker, Miles Jupp, Matt Kirshen, Seann Walsh, Ed Byrne, Mark Thomas, Adam Hills, Sean Lock, The Early Edition with Marcus Brigstocke, Sean Hughes, Andrew Lawrence, Rufus Hound, Jon Richardson, Russell Kane, Shappi Khorsandi, Jessica Delfino, Dan Atkinson, Carl Donnelly, Holly Walsh, Zoe Lyons, Rob Deering, Dave Fulton
Jack Whitehall hosts: Latitude New Act Of The Year
DJ’s Guilty Pleasures in the evening

Theatre Arena:
Adriano Adewale, Teenager of the Year, Say Hi To The Rivers And The Mountains (written by Jonathan Coe and The High-Llamas), Theatre 503, School Of Night, Mercury Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, The Bush Theatre, Paines Plough, Lyric Hammersmith, English Touring Theatre, nabokov, Picks Of The Pleasance, Tristan Bates Theatre, Fuel Theatre, Ben Moor, 1927, Third Eye Theatre, DryWrite, OSIP Theatre, The Rebel Cell, National Student Drama Festival

Literary Arena:
Frank Skinner, Grace Maxwell & Edwyn Collins, Punk Fiction with Cathi Unsworth, Nicholas Hogg, Janine Bullman, Salena Godden, Dev Hynes, Lee Bullman, Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Neate, Hardeep Singh Kohli, If:book The Future Of The Book, Jeremy Hardy, Jonathan Coe, Kate Williams, Keith Allen, Rupert Thomson, Brian Chikwava, Emmanuel Jal, Bernie Katz, Mark Steel, David Peace, Clive Stafford-Smith, Danny Wallace, Political Animal: Hosted by Andy Zaltzman & Guests, Russell Kane, Jim Cartwright, Hugh Thomson, Anthropology, Guerilla Science, The School Of Life, Robin Ince’s Book Club, Blake Morrison, Geoff Dyer, Julie Myerson, Tibor Fischer, Afternoon Tea with Stuart Maconie plus special guests, Mark Billingham, Richard Milward, Tobias Hill, Laura Dockrill, Luke Haines, Emma Kennedy, Shappi Khorsandi, William Fiennes

Poetry Arena:
The PeteBox, Daljit Nagra, Aidan Moffat, Ventriloquist, Writers’ Centre Norwich – Kei Miller & Roger Robinson, Nathan Jones and Wave Machines, Roger Lloyd Pack, Nathan Filer, Yanny Mac, Kate Fox, Aoife Mannix, Baba Brinkman, Byron Vincent, Caroline Bird, Drew Taylor, Joe Hakim, John Osbourne, Martin Figura, Molly Naylor, Patrick Lappin, Rhian Edwards, Ruby And Her Whorses, Excentral Tempest, MC Angel, Tamsin Kendrick, Tim Turnbull, Josh Idehen, Andrew Motion, Brian Patten, Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage,Patience Agbabi, Luke Wright, Jeffrey Lewis, Aisle16, Paul Farley, Luke Kennard, Polar Bear, Charlie Dark, Mik Artistik, Joel Stickley, Kathryn Simmonds, Dizraeli, Elvis McGonagall, Ross Sutherland, Tim Clare, Dockers MC

Outdoor Theatre:
La Prima Donna, Look Left Look Right, Chipping Norton Theatre, Mouth-To-Mouth, Leonard, The Grandees, Tangled Feet, Box Of Tricks, Time Cats, The Pantaloons, The Dialogue Project, Shlomo & The Vocal Orchestra, SharpWire, Faulty Optic, Cambridge Touring Theatre

Cabaret Arena:
Lucifire, Fat 45, The Penny Dreadfuls, The Whoopee Club, Ima Doll, Fancy Chance, Ekat, Beaux Belles, Russella, The Two Wrongies, Miss Lady G Luck, Simon Deville, Des O’Connor, Ida Barr, Miss Behave, Jonny Woo, Timberlina, David Mills, London Swing Dance Society, Dusty Limits, Kalki Hula Girl, Sarah Louise Young, Revealing Eve, Ward & White’s Karaoke Circus, Sounds Familiar Music Quiz, Musical Bingo, Lenny Beige, Kirsten O’Brien, Bourgeois And Maurice, Tommy And The Weeks, Wanderlust, Helix Dance, Pippa Evans, New Art Club, Stuckey And Murray, La John Joseph, Dead Man In A Box, Orkestra Del Sol, Zimbani, Deborah Francis-White, IOU, Jessica Delfino, Cardinal Burns, Watson and Oliver

The Waterfront Stage:
Hofesh Shechter, Swan Lake Excerpt, Freestyle Hip Hop from Psycho Stylez, House of BlueEyes presents: Rock ‘n’ Roll Faerie, Fashion Show, DanceEast presents Les Moutons, Riccardo Meneghini, Sadler’s Wells, Royal Opera House, Britten Sinfonia, The Irrepressibles

Don’t forget the In The Woods with surreal intimate performances on the stage tucked away in Henham’s lovely woods during the daytime. Then once darkness falls DJ’s take over with Feeling Gloomy on Thursday night, Beef Warehouse on Friday night, Fat Tony on Saturday night and a closing party on Sunday night hosted by Damian and Jamie of Dirt Disco.