It’s the festival announcement time of year again, that point where everyone is scrambling to get people’s money ahead of Christmas, or where people with too much money are gifting festival tickets. Or maybe it’s because the January lull is when people like to look forward to the summer. Whatever the reason December is full of festival announcements.
And here comes Latitude Festival, with a quick triple punch of announcements. The headliners first… Sting (3.0) takes the now annual “heritage act” slot and can bring a show – and decades worth of hits – to the Friday, while Fatboy Slim is a decent Saturday night headliner. Snow Patrol on the other hand will close Sunday to a background of trolleys being dragged from the field with people leaving; it’s their second headline slot in three years, and third overall.
Special guests are Basement Jaxx, playing their first show for ten years, closing Friday after Sting, and Elbow are joining a very chilled out Sunday line-up (so far). It’s a solid set of headliners to be fair, and Latitude knows its audience.
Over in the Comedy Arena – sorry, TK Maxx presents The Comedy Arena – we get TV’s Greg Davies, and Bridget Christie as the first two headliners. More exicing than the music so far maybe? Also on the bill are TV’s Kerry Godliman, Wales’ Kiri Pritchard -McLean, The Chase’s Paul Sinha, Taskmaster’s Sophie Duker, and a few others (including Morgan Rees and Harriet Kemsley).
Latitude is one of the festivals where the vibe delivers more than the acts on the poster. It’s fair to say it’s safe headliners in 2025, there are no London Grammar or Wolf Alice types being given their first chance at a headline slot. But it’s always deeper into the bill you can find the risks with Latitude, and we expect a more substantial set of names across the rest of the festival in early 2025.
