19/07/15 Latitude Festival

[Frozendiva]

It's a grain.

http://www.kraftcanada.com/tips-and-...to-cook-quinoa

[gracie]

I'm beginning to hate festivals.

I either have to mix with a load of middle class mothers and their babies strapped to their chests yapping constantly about Waitrose and chakra crystals because they're oh-so boho, or the rest of the people my age off to Reading/Leeds to have 'fun' i.e

Originally Posted by Marconi Delorian

setting fire to tents, blowing up gas canisters and screaming in random peoples' faces!

I mean, it's kind of fun actually. But a bit fucking meaningless and annoying. Sigh. Also, I've been pronouncing Quinoa as 'Qwinona'- like Winona Ryder. I'm as common as fuck

[UEF]

Glasto is still decent, and MSP played that last year. Boomtown looks fun too.

[Takk]

At festivals you don't have to 'mix' with anyone, just enjoy the parts you like. Esp if you just go for a day and see the bands you want.

[Littlesue]

Originally Posted by MSPKYE

Penultimate act behind Noel on the Sunday!

Is there enough female representation here??

[Takk]

[Bathtub]

Originally Posted by Littlesue

Is there enough female representation here??

Of the musical (excluding comedians and the such) acts in the regular lineup 17 out of 53 feature a female member so 32% of the lineup announced so far, so yeah I think that's near to the kind of representation that Reading should be aiming for.

Weak attempt at humour tbh.

[Takk]

Originally Posted by Bathtub

Weak attempt at humour tbh.

Funnier than the snobbery, I'd say.

[Bathtub]

Originally Posted by Takk

Funnier than the snobbery, I'd say.

I wasn't trying to be funny, I was stating the facts.

If believing in equality of representation in art and culture is ‘snobbery’ then fine I’m a snob. Or does knowing how to do percentages now count as snobbery? Fuck me.

[Lindz Delirium]

It will never top Wire at Latitude 2006. #wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_A8P7qBKfA

[hummingbird]

Didn't they refuse Latitude in 2004-5 because it would be too middle-aged? Praps they should play a Lifeblood set

[Gaylord]

Originally Posted by Bathtub

Lineup looks pretty good. I would go to Latitude, but I suspect it's full of parents and their mewling children and the sort of people that bring their own yurts and moan about the quality of the quinoa.

You are not far wrong tbh. Went 7 years ago and it was pretty middle class even then, god knows what it's like now.

Got my tickets this week. I'll be taking my kids and my tent does look a bit like a yurt, although I'm not a quinoa expert I have tried and liked it

[solitude]

Please indulge me in a tangentially related whinge. I went to undergrad with Dan Snaith (i.e. "Caribou"). Same year, same residence at U of Toronto. I can remember drunkenly playing bongo drums in his dorm room one time. He used to spin at a small basement venue when he went by the name "DJ Manitoba" and all my friends and I would go to lend support. I even went to his first CD release party, but I confess I've never actually listened to any of his recordings.

Anyway, over the past few years, it has been somewhat painful to see his name up there on festival line-ups with some of my heroes.

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by solitude

Please indulge me in a tangentially related whinge. I went to undergrad with Dan Snaith (i.e. "Caribou"). Same year, same residence at U of Toronto. I can remember drunkenly playing bongo drums in his dorm room one time. He used to spin at a small basement venue when he went by the name "DJ Manitoba" and all my friends and I would go to lend support. I even went to his first CD release party, but I confess I've never actually listened to any of his recordings.

Anyway, over the past few years, it has been somewhat painful to see his name up there on festival line-ups with some of my heroes.

"Lois, you got any tips for the young girls in the audience?"
"The best advice I can give is, you never know who's gonna grow up to be famous, so make yourself available."

Sorry! First thing I thought of when reading this. Enjoy the gig whoever's going!

[solitude]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

"The best advice I can give is, you never know who's gonna grow up to be famous, so make yourself available."

I laughed - Lois had it right. I've never had her charm, though, even at age 19. Alas.