When: 26th – 29th July 2024
Where: Henham Park, Suffolk, England
Forget the sponsorship shenanigans, everyone’s favourite medium-sized family-friendly festival is back for its 2024 edition and packed with all kinds of the usual sort of entertainment. You’ll find some online naysayers who feel like the festival has lost something since those early days, and the sight of Kasabian headlining Friday night does go someway towards explaining that. But, the rest of the line-up is a great mix of the nostalgic, the new, the overfamiliar, and the unexpected. Plus you get comedy, poetry, musicals, stage plays and loads of spoken word events, literally something for everyone at Latitude.
Let’s chat music first.
Friday’s line-up is packed, ahead of marmite serial festival headliners Kasabian are, take a deep breath… baggy early 2010s indie rockers Swim Deep, BC Camplight, Corinne Bailey Rae, performing her extremely well received Black Rainbows album, dance queen Alison Goldfrapp, indie-disco-rockers Future Islands, and that’s just the Second Stage (not sponsored this year???!!?). Frank Turner, Americana queen Waxahatchee, rising mega popster Caity Baser, and indie veterans The Vaccines grace the mainstage. What a genre mash-up!
The day to chill away from the music is Saturday, though London Grammar are finally making the leap to headliners that has been forecast for about five years, when Rick Astley is the one must see you know the rest of the line-up is a mixed bag… That’s being supremely unfair to The Mary Wallopers though, they’re fast-rising and put on a mean live show, but Seasick Steve and CMAT? Well, you can see them at practically any UK festival this year.
Sunday spins it all back up again though, headlined by a duo of disco-pop-dance-funkster-legends in Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers & Chic this is the Saturday night that should have been. Noughties rockers The Darkness will bring a show for sure, while Baby Queen will roll out some indie-pop, 90s survivors Ash are always ace and The Lottery Winners put on one of the best live shows you’ll see. And, don’t miss Marika Hackman who’s just released her best album yet.
Also featuring (but set times/days not available when “going to press”) are Pillow Queens, Anna St Louis, Holly MacVe, Angelica Garcia, English Teacher, Brown Horse, Fat Dog and Julie Byrne, playing across the Sunrise Arena and The Alcove.
Among all the non-music entertainment and infotainment are chats with Reese Shearsmith, Alexis Sayle, a whole host of live postcasts, Robin Ince doing various things, a bookclub, and Mark Kermode.
Comedy-wise, aside from the all-female headliners are Stewart Lee, Lucy Beamont, Rosie Jones, Nina Conti, and The Horne Section. But honestly, the comedy line-up is sprinkled with gems.
So, to recap… top six music acts to see across the weekend: English Teacher (Sunday), The Lottery Winners (Sunday), Marika Hackman (Sunday), Waxahatchee (Friday), Future Islands (Friday), and The Mary Wallopers (Saturday).
Tickets are still available for the weekend or by day.
