Entertainment For Lively Minds
Podcasts, Q&As and live music: what we're up to at Latitude
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?
rock magazines
It's all gone abit 'full-circle' has'nt it ? articles on the old names,the hierarchy and the legendary,the long lost 'burn-outs'.All these magazines are rough facsimiles of eachother,there's a rotation in the same old names which come round every 18 months for a 'retrospective' and then,there's the editor.I'm 50,but Hepworth,Jones and the other one were all 'antiques' when I was a young man.These monthly rehashes of the same old careers are edited by 80 year old men.No wonder 'Rock' is now a mere brand name for the cheeseburger offshoots and clothing ranges and vehicles for redundant pop and rock names to flog their latest 'fritter in fabric.' I like this page because you can play all the podcasts at once and things get vaguely interesting.Apart from that...I gave up after a few reviews by tired lazy hacks who seem to be running a gossip column rather than an organ of rare antiquity.Music should be fascinating,stimulating and resonate with the soul.These magazines give music the complexion of 'void pools coupons and wet thursday nights in Northamton..,or somewhere equally as dodgy.Cheers.