Latitude, where posh people go.

[Sunray]

Makes Glastonbury look like skanky illegal rave.

I'd never buy a ticket for it. Too many luvvies. Too ordered. The most expensive and smallest portions of food ever. I would be embarrassed to work at a food place. No crew catering so will bring all my own food and eat it.

But it has Kraftwerk.

 

[marshall]

Too many luvvies?

Aren’t glasto and latitude pretty much of a muchness as far as the socio-demographics of the crowd are concerned? Aren’t all festivals these days populated by exactly the same sort of people you might see everyday in London or anywhere else for that matter? Going to festivals and seeing people who live genuinely alternative day-to-day existencies pretty much went out the window after 1989/90, didn’t it?

 

[Onket]

The big festivals are proper mainstream now. You don't see many people wearing their normal clothes, they take a bag of their best festival clothes & take a hairdryer. Probably.

 

[pissflaps]

if you like kraftwerk that much and you'd like the notably rare opportunity to see them live, then by all means by a ticket and see the show and enjoy yerself. who gives a rats cock what the people there are 'like'?

 

[Onket]

I heard they all have 'Baby on board' signs in their vehicles.

 

[pissflaps]

I heard they all have 'Baby on board' signs in their vehicles.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Take Ketamine, cheap Speed and Diamond White. Offer it to people in a friendly fashion.

 

[Gerry1time]

Too many luvvies?

Aren’t glasto and latitude pretty much of a muchness as far as the socio-demographics of the crowd are concerned?

No. Glastonbury is many festivals all in one place, so whilst the interstage 'backstage' bit may be identical to latitude, the green fields are fuck all like it, and there are many shades of each of them to greater or lesser degrees across the rest of the site. The late night area's getting more like Latitude by the year, the West Holts stage less and less like it.

I went to Latitude for the first and last time a couple of years ago. It really was like some parody of a festival, all teenage girls wearing wellies on dry ground in the boiling hot sun as 'that's what you wear at festivals'. Queues to get into venues, and no opportunity missed to get money out of the punters, even encouraging them to buy 'souvenir' plastic pint glasses with their drinks, saving money on washing/recycling/landfilling them. It really was a massive load of middle class nonsense, which is a shame, as the people I went with insisted it used to be quite different in its earlier days.

 

[Onket]

Not at little box with a red cross in it, no, a 'Baby on Board' sign.

 

[Sunray]

if you like kraftwerk that much and you'd like the notably rare opportunity to see them live, then by all means by a ticket and see the show and enjoy yerself. who gives a rats cock what the people there are 'like'?

I'm working it, no way would I pay.

I did enjoy the festival last year, have to admit that through gritted teeth. The clean, nice smelling, loo roll filled loo's, the stadium seating and quality intellectual programming hooked me in. The other stuff I just laugh at, (in my mind) when they are telling me my job

But what Gerry above says holds very true. I like camping in the Van and I view it as relaxing radio 4 style camping holiday in a lovely part of the world.

 

[pissflaps]

work it, baby!

 

[editor]

I'm working it, no way would I pay.

I did enjoy the festival last year, have to admit that through gritted teeth. The clean, nice smelling, loo roll filled loo's, the stadium seating and quality intellectual programming hooked me in. The other stuff I just laugh at, (in my mind) when they are telling me my job

The impression I got was that the first Latitude was really good and then that was it, basically. It went all Big Chill, but worse.

 

[Sprocket.]

Seems to me to be full of bourgeois fantasists trying to be someone they wouldn't speak to at the conservative club lunches or golf club.

 

[editor]

That last Big Chill I attended is permanently etched in my mind as the benchmark of everything I don't want a festival to be.

 

[gabi]

latitude was the worst festival ive ever been to. drugs and even booze were discouraged. awful. got told to shut up at 12am at our tent site because kids were trying to sleep.

 

[editor]

latitude was the worst festival ive ever been to. drugs and even booze were discouraged. awful. got told to shut up at 12am at our tent site because kids were trying to sleep.

That's what I got at that last Big Chill I went to. We were all supposed to just quietly go to bed because little Tarquin and his posh parents wanted their precious sleep. If you want a nice sleep, don't come to a fucking music festival. Cunts.

 

[Onket]

latitude was the worst festival ive ever been to. drugs and even booze were discouraged. awful. got told to shut up at 12am at our tent site because kids were trying to sleep.

That's what I got at that last Big Chill I went to. We were all supposed to just quietly go to bed because little Tarquin and his posh parents wanted their precious sleep. If you want a nice sleep, don't come to a fucking music festival. Cunts.

To be fair, it sounds like it's the perfect festival for them, and that it was YOU at the wrong one.

 

[Sunray]

That's what I got at that last Big Chill I went to. We were all supposed to just quietly go to bed because little Tarquin and his posh parents wanted their precious sleep. If you want a nice sleep, don't come to a fucking music festival. Cunts.

Be thankful, now they go to Latitude. I am camped away from them in, well the crew car park actually, quite a nice car park as car parks go.

 

[TruXta]

Went once, never again.

 

[editor]

Be thankful, now they go to Latitude. I am camped away from them in, well the crew car park actually, quite a nice car park as car parks go.

Thing was that Big Chill had changed completely from the previous year, with the capacity tripling and the biggest pile of posh, self absorbed tossers making up the numbers.

 

[Gerry1time]

One of the other things I heard about Latitude was that, at least when we went, it wasn't too long after the start of the school summer holidays, and groups of posh teenagers newly back from boarding school went to 'do a festival' in a safe, clean and middle class environment. Hence the widespread wearing of wellies in the boiling sun.

It certainly had a vibe of the posh equivalent of Reading, and there was one highly amusing incident when I saw a posh teenage boy protesting loudly about being arrested for theft. Apparently, he'd been into some random person's tent and nicked some beer, but according to him that was fine, as 'that's what people do at festivals'.

The only good thing I got out of going was knowing full well that I don't want to go to Wildnerness festival this year, despite some people we know suggesting it. It looks even worse than Latitude for this sort of stuff, just check out their 'Banquets, Feasts and Gastronomy' page.

 

[Sprocket.]

Where do the chauffeurs park the Bentleys whilst young master/miss is off hob nobbing and being festivalised.
Visiting the chutney recipe tent and so forth, having a beezer time wot?

 

[ouchmonkey]

Wasn't all that impressed with Latitude the one time I went - not as massively middle class as some of you are making out, not then anyway, but bad enough and a bit like a shopping centre of festival type concessions if that makes sense...
worked Wilderness last year drawn by the lure of Sharon Jones (who killed it- amazing) and Giant Giant Sand's one UK show and a few other bits and bobs on the bill.
Nice site, but not a music festival - this year's bill is throughly lamentable - we went off site saturday night to meet a mate in a pub there was so little happening - all the best stuff had been brought in from Wayne Hemingway's vintage which had financial trouble so combined with it.
It is a giant county church fete for the unbearably posh and oblivious,bastards at every turn.
they have activities like jogging and fishing you can sign up to do at 8am and such, not to mention the celeb chef banquet bobbins
I've never seen so many barstaff at a festival however.

 

[pissflaps]

'i was into (insert festival name here) before it became cool/uncool'

 

[marshall]

Latitude’s got a nicer site. And, yes, the first one was best because only about 7,000 people turned up to a festival for 35,000…and because it was the first, so novelty value in exploring the woods/lake and stuff. I think even Firky pitched up. Haven’t been to Glasto since the wall went up, so maybe it’s just as edgy as it always was, did think that the Traveller’s/Convoy gave it something other festivals didn’t have…sure I wouldn’t miss the thieving scousers though.

 

[Superdupastupor]

I worked there in 2008.

the campers area had tents all in neat rows I have never seen anything like it- and i think it was quite indicative of ethos of the people that go there

still their deposit system on pint glasses meant it is the only time I have been PAID to get drunk - £2 up with every pint downed -wahey

 

[editor]

'i was into (insert festival name here) before it became cool/uncool'

Ah, the tediously predictable stereotype machine starts up again.

 

[editor]

Latitude’s got a nicer site. And, yes, the first one was best because only about 7,000 people turned up to a festival for 35,000…and because it was the first, so novelty value in exploring the woods/lake and stuff. I think even Firky pitched up. Haven’t been to Glasto since the wall went up, so maybe it’s just as edgy as it always was, did think that the Traveller’s/Convoy gave it something other festivals didn’t have…sure I wouldn’t miss the thieving scousers though.

The security at that last Big Chill I went to was awful. Bags were being nicked right in front of the security 'guards' and even when I pointed out a thief in action they didn't act. And then there was that smug song they'd made about their tenth anniversary which was quite the worst thing I've ever heard. And they kept fucking playing it.

 

[Sunray]

I worked there in 2008.

the campers area had tents all in neat rows I have never seen anything like it- and i think it was quite indicative of ethos of the people that go there

still their deposit system on pint glasses meant it is the only time I have been PAID to get drunk - £2 up with every pint downed -wahey

That is tangerine fields, who operate at most festival, they offer pre-pitched tents, but the way they pitch them is bunk, like a refugee camp.

I would have made it more about meeting people, pitch them in circles round fire pits.

 

[Shirl]

I enjoyed it when I went about 5 years ago. There was a brilliant line up that year and the sun shone. I loved the pink sheep and the fact that I could go to the onsite heiresses to get my hair washed and blow dried in the mornings.
On the downside
I had a broken leg and was wearing a pot on it. Lots of rich bastards with southern accents shoved me out of the way to get where they wanted to go.
I'd go again if I could afford to, especially if I had two working legs