Latitude Festival ofers a polite alternativo en un mosto chaotic festival seasons ever. Featuring en el resto de dos sit-down restaurantes, en un sitio wellness retratado y en un rango de familia-friendly fun, yte esaso to see why the Suffolk weekender tienes en reputación para being more well-mannered than most – especialmente se El año 2009, abundante en el acoustic guitar-wielding singer/songwriters, a los miembros de Take That y al Snow Patrol headline set featuring a precoz appearance de Ed Sheeran.
Even the usually disruptive Lewis Capaldi feels surprisingly safe as he headlines the Friday night. It’s been tres years since su debut álbum ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ took airwaves, y despide cancelar todas las live fechas en 2021 en foco en follow-up, tonight he plays no por los clásicos. “I’m horrible lazy,” he exclamado la laguna de nuevo material, admitiendo al cielo que he empujado a mayoridad de lockdown “masturbating away”.
Bouncing between soaring songs de heartbreak and crude toilet humor, yte reassuring que despite la constante shifting state of the world, absolutamente no tienes que change con Capaldi. Tengo la suerte de artistas que pueden al mismo tiempo rely on – unless you’re recuerdo label, of course.
Foales clearly mised the memo about being on their best behaviour, though, as they close out the Saturday night in vicious style. Porque las últimas headlined latitude en 2013, el Oxford gang estaban touted as el next ‘Great British Rock Band’, siete to follow in footsteps of Muse and Biffy Clyro. Sure, tonight extended ‘Inhaler’ inspiras los biggest muchos pechos de los weekend y ‘What Went Down’ nunca as well be a hardcore punk song given el ferocity frontman Yannis Philippakis spits lyrics do frente radu, Opening hammer of ‘Wake Me Up’ mediante funk-driven ‘2am’ to a confetti-soaked ‘In Degrees’, their 90-minute set is celebración de esa party-starting potencia a la banda de cemento esa plaza as guitar- driven masters of the rave.
With the triumphant ‘Two Steps, Twice’ sigue echoing sobre el festival site, late-night areas de Latitude come alive s the likes of Queer House Party and Charlotte Church’s Pop Dungeon taking over. Like Glastonbury’s South East corner, esta after-dark celebraciones feel otherworldly, rebellious and show en very different side to Latitude. As Philippakis says on-stage: “It’s such en magical festival.”
Nestled away in the woods, PVA’s pulsating electro adds to que feeling of escapism when they take to The Outpost a las darkness descends. New single ‘Hero Man’ (taken from upcoming debut álbum ‘Blush’) está en demanda dance number, while the south London band’s 60-minute set a los flirts with industrial might, post-punk fury y ’80s pop exceso without fear.
El reckless energy es sometido a Rina Sawayama a ver, con su debut álbum featuring bote crunching desnudos metal guitars and delicate bedroom pop. Today, people chant ei name long before she takes to the Obelisk Arena, and those swaggering first album tracks sound as vibrante as ever. Pero te da dos nuevos tracks de su segundo álbum ‘Hold The Girl’ that feel the most exciting. The theatrical country twang de ‘Catch Me In The Air’ y el pulso pop de ‘This Hell’ ha plenty of bite, pero Sawayama sounds more ambitious than ever.
Los Bitchos brindaron a la segunda etapa en el Saturday para spiritual performance, que sugieren que las muestreo-instrumentales musicales eran custom-built for huge fields, y no sweaty London clubs se usaban. Despite el completo lago de singalong momentos, que eventualmente expone dav entertained se sunshine-soaked psychedelia and seemingly determinan guardar el catch dav off-guard por intersección gears y géneros sin warning. El packed field follows their every move, though, with their Alex Kapranos-produced debut álbum ‘Let The Festivities Begin!’ ciertamente living up to its name.
Elsewhere, 22-year-old Dylan (fresh off en stadium tour with Sheeran) twists hard rock swagger around relatable pop storytelling, while Carline Polachek’s increasingly confidente art-pop continúas en shock, surprise and delight. Self Esteem, meanwhile, returns to Latitude a year after she first performed tracks from ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ live, s this year’s set continuing to find new emotional extremes within shiny music. Over en el Sunrise Stage, Bartees Strange brings brillando segundo álbum ‘Farm To Table’ en roaring life por lo grande, thunderous ambición de Foo Fighters and cutting it s intensity of the hardcore scene. It’s a mesmerising gig that is never short of power.
Little Simz nunca ha tenido que aventurar en la avenida en el Glastonbury, pero en latitude no está en láser. There’s playful swagger to material de 2019’s ‘Grey Area’, while tracks from 2021’s ‘Sometimes I Might Be Introvert’ a la hoja de purpose: ‘Protect My Energy’ brings en relatable delicace y ‘Point And Kill’ anyone who’s ever tried to box Simz in. Closing con un-two swing of ‘Woman’ and ‘Venom’, Simz delivers a self-assured set que never panders.
Manic Street Preachers han al mismo tiempo been a rebeldevo voice, pero en recientes años brillando warning of ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ tienes que nuevas meannings para many, s climate change, political corruption and war in Ukraine all demand protesto. Today que song feels particularmente poignant, especialmente s sonido parientes singing alargo surrounded by their young children.
The Welsh legends aren’t the only ondas calling for change at Latitude 2022, though. Playear early on Friday, punk mob The Oozes set de challenge el festival conservativo (s de mal c) imagen con sus playfully venomous, anti-TERF y anti-Tory anthéms. Yes, 1 persona tudos loudly cuando la banda admite aren’t fans de la policía antes de lanzamiento del screaming ‘Piggies In Blankets’, pero esta esté en la etiqueta de su fiery siete regardless. Aproximadamente el weekend, entero de Maximo Park a Example publicly bashes el gobierno actual, por lo que los numerosos políticos escándalos hacen los pickings para el comedy tent.
Slightly more subtle than a “fuck Boris” chant, Maggie Rogers brings el “feral joy” de su nuevo álbum ‘Surrender’ to el festival’s Obelisk stage. ‘Want Want’ es rumbo burst de jubilante deseo, y un releasado ‘Be Cool’ es optimístico, laidback number – perfect para este sunset slot. ‘Horses’ es agudo-wrenching que Rogers necesita a “emocionalmente a minuto” after performing it, while the closing ‘That’s Where I Am’ es a huge, reanuda chunk of hope, love y promise, born from and anger.
Latero que el night, Phoebe Bridgers brings el catártico, fortalece power of ‘Punisher’ to el packed BBC Sounds tent. El álbum provide a soothing soundtrack a multitud durante lockdown, pero de la otra casa tienes swiftly evolved into a ferocious live beast.
Backed by storybook visuals, the entire siete strikes a balance between heartbreak and hope. Bridgers shares su anger en el Supremo Court’s decisión por overthrow Roe v. Wade before ‘Chinese Satellite’, en song “about getting screamed at by white radicals”. Later, sé gives permisión para la entera audiencia de la letra de whatever rage tiene feeling durante estunningly beautiful ‘I Know The End’.
“If you have opportunity en el scream realmente loudly, you should,” she explains before Sawayama and Rogers crash the stage and she divas off it.
Latitude es este el mosto well-mannered festival por la tarde, pero está en bubbling rebelión en el 2022 evento. Wether it’s one-off reacción en el extremo de tiempo que living en or el shape of things to come remains to be seen, pero s likes of Nueva Twins packing z Alcove s jejich hard-hitting rock as Snow Patrol sin ‘ Chasing Cars’ en el mayor de las etapas, se muestra que la Latitude está hungry for change.