A new festival, put together by Mean Fiddler [who look after Reading and Leeds and Glastonbury], is to debut this summer.
The Latitude festival will take place in Southwold, Suffolk and will feature 3 live stages. There will also be readings, poetry, comedy, film, art and DJ sets. Additionally, a leftfield stage will also be present for politics and performances.
The headliners unveiled so far as Snow Patrol, Antony And The Johnsons and Mogwai and tickets will be on sale for £40 for a day and £95 for the weekend.
A fracas at Heathrow Airport involved Snoop Dogg and his entourage ended in arrest on Wednesday. The group were told they weren’t allowed to board their flight, to perform in South Africa, and they “became abusive and pushed officers” which reportedly left seven police officers with minor injuries.
Stanley Donwood, who became widely long thanks to his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead will launch his own show for a month at the Lazarides Gallery in Greek Street, London, on May 19th. His work on The Bends was loved and his album cover for the limited edition of Amnesiac won a Grammy for Best Recording Package.
Exeter’s Thousand Natural Shocks are coming out with a double A side single [released on June 12th] and tour. The record, Under The Sun b/w Attack is the band’s debut and has been described by Dan from the band as ‘essentially new wave with a bit of an art-rock thing going on, played with the energy of punk. But there’s also a big emphasis on making it dance, big beat and fast funk based. We all like a bit of a rave!’
Gary ‘Woody’ Woodward has just added two brand new sponsors to his CV.
“The Destroyer!”
Sneaker pimps and trainer junkies will never get enough, and big shoe companies like Osiris know it. That’s why they are about to drop the latest in sole-soothing fetichism- the O.G. Abel/Osiris collaboration.
Leeds and Bolton were the venues for legs 2 and 3 of the Natural Born Skater comps and competition was very high indeed. In Leeds it was the timed runs that decided who was taking first place, despite a good show during the jams. In Bolton it was steez a plenty with tricks going off all over the place.
Coldcut are back in a big way, with the single True Skool which features the ever lovable and utterly distinctive tones of Roots Manuva providing the lyrical content. The eastern tabla beat pounds away under a catchy-as-hell vocal sample as Rootsva tells you to “stamp your footsie” and “wiggle your tootsie”, you can’t really go wrong with words like that now can you?