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Portishead to headline Latitude festival 2015
Portishead join Alt-J and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to headline this year’s Latitude festival.
Portishead will give a rare UK appearance as they top the bill on Saturday July 18. Emerging in 1994 with landmark album Dummy, Portishead have remained adventurous and uncompromising throughout their 20-year career. Compelling, provoking and moving; this will be an unmissable performance.
Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, who also runs Invada records, said: “I’ve been to Latitude before as a festival goer and really enjoyed it I think the effort they put into their whole programming – music, comedy and film – is what makes it a great festival to be part of. And I’m really looking forward to it.” Bandmate Adrian Utley added: “I love the vibe at Latitude and the location. Good forward thinking programming as well, I played a couple of years ago in the cinema tent with a silent film project I was doing and it was a really good experience…looking forward to this one very much.”
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The festival, which takes place in Suffolk from July 16-19, has unveiled a full lineup which also includes the likes of Manic Street Preachers, James Blake, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts, Seasick Steve, The Vaccines, Jon Hopkins, La Roux, Savages, Public Service Broadcasting, King Creosote, SBTRKT, Marika Hackman, Nadine Shah, Drenge, The Twilight Sad and more.
In this, its 10th year, the festival is also introducing two new areas – swimming in the lake and a hot tub area. There’s also the usual comedy, film and poetry offering as well as lots of family fun to be had as well as an Inbetweeners teen area (OMG!). Sky Arts will be capturing the action for airing on their brilliant channel too.
More info and tickets available at: www.latitudefestival.com
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