Was my mistaken interpretation of a comment made on one of the Latitude podcasts the first example of a Word mag Mondegreen (eg 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy)?

When discussing Fraser's unfortunate trip to Latitude medical services on the 'cast, I remain convinced that the Ed referred to his misfortune as "a beasting" and I was held rapt for several minutes of my afternnon walk musing on what sort of public school bullying indignity had been served on our Antipodean roadkill gourmet and North Korean Tourism Board representative.

It was only when reading the actual factual sub copy of the mag last week that I realised that my ear trumpet requires de-gunging and that Mr Digital had merely suffered "a bee sting". Phew.

Just wanted to say thanks to the team for the Latitude CD. Very nice to have a themed tie in. Having 2 CDs that month was an added bonus.

From a packed Word Lounge at Latitude, Andrew Harrison is joined by Stuart Maconie and Louise Wener to look back at Britpop: why it happened, what is was like, and where it all went wrong. Subjects covered include the secret meeting at which Britpop was invented, life at Camden's Good Mixer pub, drugs, Blur vs Oasis, and how The Spice Girls came along and ruined it for everyone. As an added audio bonus, you'll also hear an impromptu duet from Louise and Andrew on Queen's We Are The Champions.

The podcast is available to podcast app users now and will be available via this website, through iTunes and other channels tomorrow.

You can follow this link to get the podcast every week. For more details on our podcast app, click here.

And if you enjoyed these live podcasts from Latitude, seats are still available for our Word On The Water event next weekend, which features just such a recording, plus a live set from C.W. Stoneking. Tickets are available here.

Back from Latitude and had a great time, the kids loved it, but the organisers really should hold their heads in shame as there were a lot of very unhappy campers around.

We had friends who had no water on their campsite for virtually the whole weekend, which certainly tested their patience. Apparently H&S said the water wasn't good enough and no solution was found.

We were on the family campsite, which didn't take long to turn into a quagmire, which the organisers didn't really seem to be too bothered about. To see families trying to push prams through 6-10 inches of mud makes any claims to be a family-friendly festival sound fairly hollow. I saw a lot of young families packing up and going home on Saturday lunchtime and I can't really blame them.

No effort was made to make the main route from the family camping to the toilets and the festival more manageable. If they weren't willing to fork out for tracks, then surely some straw or chippings would have been possible?

We drove out yesterday at about 9pm and we saw cars getting stuck left, right and centre. The only help that seemed to be on hand was a couple of young lads whose advice was "just put your foot down and hope for the best". Great! I wouldn't be surprised if people were still trying to get out now.

As for the festival itself, the site itself held up pretty well. We popped into the Word tent on Saturday and everyone including Messers Hepworth, Mossman, Lewery and others were sat round tables chatting and nobody acknowledged us or said hello. After five minutes of standing there, we walked out and my wife said "well, that was s**t". All felt a bit, dare I say it, cliquey!

Apart from that, we had a great weekend. Not sure I would go again though; it ain't cheap and to expect campers to go four days without any water is expecting a little bit much of people.

Did anyone else go, and what did you think?

The third of this year's Latitude podcasts, recorded at the Word Lounge at the festival, is amongst you. First up, Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd talks David Hepworth and Mark Ellen through the pain of losing his record collection and reveals a genuine piece of backsgage gossip involving lots of mud, some borrowed wood, and Seasick Steve. In parts two and three, recorded yesterday, we hear from I Am Kloot's John Bramwell and Australian/American vintage bluesman C.W. Stoneking.

The podcast is available to podcast app users now and will be available via this website, through iTunes and other channels tomorrow.

You can follow this link to get the podcast every week. For more details on our podcast app, click here.

And if you enjoyed Stoneking's performance, seats are still available to see him perform at our Word On The Water event next weekend. Buy tickets here.

In the second podcast from Latitude, Robin Ince joins us in the Word lounge to talk about Mills & Boon, buying a record only to find the musician in question operating the till, being bullied by Ricky Gervais, his first Glastonbury, why Robert Smith should never be a crowd marshall and working with Brian Cox. Plus the chaps from They Might Be Giants talk to David Hepworth and answer audience questions about set lists, stuffing envelopes and the difficulties involved in doing a children's record about history.

The podcast is available to podcast app users now and will be available via this website, through iTunes and other channels tomorrow.

You can follow this link to get the podcast every week. For more details on our podcast app, click here.

In the first of a few podcasts recorded in the Word "Lounge" at Latitude, Britain's premier poet Simon Armitage (far right) talks to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth about why Bob Dylan, although a Very Good Thing, is not actually a poet, the desirability of calling your band The Wheelie Bins, seeing the Bay City Rollers in Queens Hall, Leeds, what he thinks of Jim Morrison and why you can't just take one of his poems and set it to music. As a bonus on this podcast you get K.T. Tunstall talking about the challenges of playing festivals and answering audience questions about playing Anne Frank.

The podcast is available to podcast app users now and will be available via this website, through iTunes and other channels later today.

You can follow this link to get the podcast every week. For more details on our podcast app, click here.

If you're attending the Latitude Festival this weekend, you'll know who's playing at the Word Arena (marked with the yellow arrow on the left of the map, below): The Vaccines, Lyle Lovett, Caribou, Echo & The Bunnymen, Bellowhead, Lykke Li, OMD, Os Mutantes and many more.

But that's not all. Eagle-eyed readers examining the topography above will already have noticed a second yellow arrow, one that points enticingly at the location of a second, previously unknown Word tent.

This is The Word Lounge, an intimate setting under canvas where we'll be hosting a series of live events, including Q&As and performances from a number of artists performing elsewhere at the festival. We'll also be recording our very first live-in-front-of-an-audience podcasts. Confirmations* so far include K.T. Tunstall, Simon Armitage, C.W. Stoneking, I Am Kloot, They Might Be Giants, Louise Wener and Stuart Maconie, the latter two recording a special Britpop podcast with Andrew Harrison. Other names will follow, and while we're not absolutely sure what time people will be joining us, festival attendees should keep their eyes open for posters we'll be putting up around the site with complete schedule details.

Otherwise, just come and say hello, as we'll all be there.

*List of names correct at the time of posting, but liable to change. Or maybe it won't. Who knows?

Well it is chucking it down, but next weekend is Latitude and I am getting excited. And worried about the weather forcast.

Who else is going apart from the Word Crew?

And has anyone got the train back on the Sunday before? I have to be in London for work on Sunday night (dammit) while the family can continue enjoying the festival till Monday.

With less than two weeks to go before Latitude starts rolling, more acts have been announced.

Sunrise Arena The Heartbreaks, The Phantom Band (below), Dionne Bromfield, Ben Howard, Yellowire, Treefight for Sunlight, Aaron Wright and The Aprils, Yes Sir Boss, East Park Reggae Collective, Steel City Soul Club, Gabriel Deep

Lake Stage Clock Opera, Sea of Bees, DJs, Goldierocks, Moshi Moshi DJs

You can buy tickets directly from the Latitude Website.

Irish comedy legend Dylan Moran, former winner of both the Perrier award and the "So You Think Your Funny Award" at Edinburgh, and the man sitcom Black Books, has been added to the Comedy line-up for Latitude this year. Also joining the bill is American comic, writer and actress Rita Rudner (right), a stalwart of the Las Vegas comedy scene and the host of several award-winning comedy specials for PBS and HBO.

It's a month until this year's Latitude Festival visits sunny Southwold, yet still more artists are being added to the already packed bill. This week's additions are as follows:

Lake Stage: James Blake (below), Gary Nock, Gabriella Noble

Film & Music Arena: BAFTA Q&A with Ralph Fiennes & screening of Senna plus Q&A with Asif Kapadia, and Richard Curtis interviews The Trip’s Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon, Alabama 3, Future Cinema: The Guillemots live scoring Dreams, Arcade Fire’s Scenes From The Suburbs, Beastie Boys’ Fight For Your Right Revisited, Jay Rayner, Just Do It, Powder, Tiny Furniture, Seamonsters, Killing Bono, Chris Shepherd presents Dog Judo, Get Well Soon & Bad Night For The Blues, Automate, Disco, PJ Harvey short films, Tiny Elephants, Confessions

Literary Arena: WordTheatre with Very Special Guests, Deborah Kay Davies, Patrick Barkham, Jay Rayner, The Humble Quest for Universal Genius Quiz, Self made hero presents Johnny Cash and Hellraisers

Theatre Arena: David Luff and Network Solutions, supported by Old Vic New Voices

Cabaret Arena: Spymonkey, Ronnie King, Diane Spencer, Sue Maclaine, Jacksons Lane presents Slingshot Theatre

Literary Salon: Kate Spicer

Comedy Arena: Robin Ince, Joe Bor

Poetry Arena: Julian Sands, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Mark Grist, Mab Jones, Harry Baker, Nikky Norton, Rob Auton, Trio Thaddeus ~

Outdoor Theatre: Up In Arms, Eyebrow Productions

Pandora's Playground: Circus Space, Flabbergast, The Beaux Belles

The Faraway Forest: The Night Circus

Sunrise Arena: Cats Eyes, When Saints Go Machine

As always, tickets for the festival can be picked up from the Latitude Website.

Described in Mark Ellen's Word diary as "the sexiest show I've ever seen" by reader Kerry Shale, full cast hightlights of the award winning FELA! musical are coming to Latitude this summer, ahead of the return of the full production at Sadler’s Wells. It'll be part of Sunday's festivities, and Fraser will be right down the front.

Also on the Waterfront Stage, the Olivier Award-winning Rambert Dance Company perform Tim Rushton’s ‘Monolith’, inspired by mystical energies that haunt sites of man-made gathering places.

Following in the footsteps of from Joanna Newsom, Thom Yorke and Tom Jones, this year's guests for midday Sunday slot at Latitude have been confirmed as Scala & Kolacny Brothers, who might just be the perfect way to gently address the onset of any festival hangover.

For the unfamiliar, S&KB are conductor Stijn Kolacny, arranger and pianist Steven Kolacny, and an all-girl 26-piece choir. They specialise in rather lovely versions of contemporary tunes, much like the Radiohead cover below, and we suspect it'll be something of a triumph.

Latitude are announcing the prestigious Sunday lunchtime slot on Tuesday, and are running a competition on their website asking people to guess who it might be.

Guess right, and you could win tickets to see whoever it is play before they get to the festival.

Enter the competition here.