Given that I have only been back from Suffolk a couple of days, and I'm
still reluctant to let go of my festival spirit, I thought I'd use this week's
post to recapture some of the things I saw (and loved).
1) The brightly painted Latitude sheep - always a classic Latitude
moment - plus it offers a tenuous link to this week's blog theme.
2) A lightning storm as we danced to Damon Albarn on the Obelisk Stage
- the sky navy - the rain warm - and our dancing criminal - but it was like no
experience I'd ever had before.
3) Luke Wright reading Dad
Reins - that last line is caught in my mind and almost has me in tears
every time I hear it.
4) D.I.Y - Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - beautiful sunny Friday
afternoon - sing-a-long.
5) Jemima Foxtrot mesmerised me with her poetry - her excitement
was refreshing and infectious.
6) A guy wearing a basset hound costume in thirty degree heat.
7) Mining The Meaning - "Introduced by Dr Katy Shaw, a leading
authority on the mining strike, the event will consider the social, cultural
and political legacy of the strike and ask what connections can be drawn to the
here-and-now in a post-Thatcher, post-Labour, pro-protest world." - Jemima
Foxtrot, Luke Wright, Attila the Stockbroker, Michael Rossen and Andy Bennett
read a selection of poems written by miners and their wives at the time of the
strikes.
8) On Thursday night we went to the theatre and saw Kate Tempest's
Hopelessly Devoted - Thought-provoking and arresting - impossible not to be
moved and inspired.
9) Goat - psychedelic, bizarre, unfathomable - Shaun dancing and
whooping like something possessed.
10) Vegan food in a field - Peckish Peacock - Healthy Carrot - Churros
- And vegan cake
11) Helen Mort - I'd heard Helen read at Latitude 2012, but this year
she was even better -if you haven't read any of her poetry then it is a MUST.
12) Hula Hoop Girl - She performed a host of amazing tricks as The
Black Keys played - we couldn't take our eyes off her - I think Shaun fell in
love.
13) A moth flying to the
ground carrying a wasp - squeezing into the grass - burrowing out of sight.
14) Scroobius Pip ending our festival with 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' -
packed tent with people spilling outside.