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Yeah that's the way I read it. Doesn't rule them out, but doesn't make then any more likely than they otherwise would be.

Or even a bit longer.. if everyone waits and pays it on Tuesday next week, that should send the message.

The big thing to watch out for with those is if the ground is even vaguely soft then the legs will dig in and you'll end up sinking. May be worth improvising something to act as wider feet. As for them breaking - just treat them gently. Lower yourself in rather than crashing and it should be ok.

It's not something I'd be inclined to do myself, but some do and report it works fairly well - once you're set up at the Festival, get the shuttle bus which runs hourly from Gate A to Shepton Mallet to stock up as needed. In Shepton, it stops right next to the Tesco and not too far from Aldi. Don't even need to do it the same day, as the bus runs throughout the weekend.

That's not indicative of anything - Ticketmaster aren't the primary ticket seller for the O2, and so will only have access to a limited number of blocks. AXS is the primary seller, and is showing plenty more available across the lower tier - and judging by their seat plan it looks like the upper tier hasn't even gone on sale yet.

My strategy is borne of the old days when I was trying to get a prime camping spot in Kidney Mead - Get the coach or train down to Bristol on the Tuesday. Have a nice pub meal and a good nights sleep in a hotel near the bus station. Pick up an early coach to the site - getting through Gate A almost as soon as it opens and bypassing all the poor sods who've been awake all night queuing from the car park and by that point are dead on their feet. Then a direct coach home on the Monday. Only difference now is that I'm too old to worry about camping centrally, and so the "early" coach to the Festival site isn't anywhere near as early as it used to be which means a longer sleep and likely a longer queue at Gate A as things get busier (though still probably shorter than coming in from the Car Parks). I find that whole approach extremely relaxed. The only disadvantage compared to coming by Car is needing to pack lighter, but I'm fine with that. Splitting the journey to the festival does make a huge difference, as it means that I'm fresh as I could be on Wednesday, and still through the gates before most.

It's almost as if people on here have convinced themselves something is going to happen, and then get frustrated when it doesn't.

Worst case, you can pay on the gate - though you'll be charged extra (I think a tenner more)

Quite a substantial walk outside, unless they've moved this year. Just use the Festival or Greenpeace showers, and time it so you avoid the morning/lunchtime rush. It's free, and because both are reasonably centrally located you can stop in between acts.

Yeah, you'll be fine after a bit. Give it an hour or so. Just be thankful you didn't leave it until 23:55 on the 7th..

Think that needs to be caveated with the fact that when they were the special guest, they were doing the w*nky "reworked" thing, whereas this will presumably be a more crowd pleasing version.

The Verve and Leonard Cohen, albeit that one comes with a fair bit of hindsight as not many people anticipated the outpouring of love that Cohen would get.

Oh, I agree that there's a reasonable chance they're talking shit (and not for the first time) - but I don't see that the conveniently scheduled show in June as definitive proof of that. Would say that their statement at minimum puts things a bit more up in the air than we thought.

It's on the news article - https://www.latitudefestival.com/news/latitude-2022-first-announcement/

It's certainly what they're claiming - "will headline in a UK festival exclusive" is the exact terminology they used.

The only other possibility is - Foals were rumoured to be headlining Wilderness (which has their announcement next week). Can't see them doing both that and Latitude in the same year. Flo seems a bit large for Wilderness (24,000 capacity) but not impossibly so and would be a perfect fit musically / stylistically. They're both FR affairs, and so it'd be possible for them to juggle acts around as suits best. Of course the above is all speculation and could be miles off.

The later Latitude announcements tend to be more focused on the Comedy side rather than Music, and it looks like there's not a huge amount of space left on the 2 larger stages. Doesn't help that they've stopped doing the Lake Stage. Damon was a big name, but it was a theoretically low key spot on a tiny stage playing not-Blur and not-Gorillaz.

Assuming "all main stages" means the Pyramid, Other, Jazz World, Park, and JP - I don't think they've even managed that in any of the previous March posters.

Not quite - the "traditional" version was available simultaneously if you went direct to the website. It took them a couple hours to post it on social media.

Yeah, the issue is going to be more along the lines of the application system was built a few years ago for a specific purpose, and then gets taken out for a spin once a year with limited maintenance - and so the change on the banks side caught them by surprise. Not a huge deal.

Unfortunately, that probably can't happen - unless something has changed (doesn't look like it has) we already know from last year that Lewis Capaldi is headlining the Friday night at Latitude.

I was of the understanding that Foals were rumoured for Wilderness - so if that's correct then it'd make Latitude very unlikely given the target markets overlap a bit.

At best I can tell, the payment processing function on the web site doesn't support Strong Customer Authentication yet which is causing some rejected payments. The deadline to implement it is theoretically a couple weeks away, but it looks like some banks are requiring it early.

He's one of those acts that's always active, and in the right area, but hasn't turned up in a very long time. Wouldn't say that he looks any more or less likely now than he has in the past decade or so.

I assume that because it's a task done by the farm hands, it'll be based around the schedule of the Dairy Farm to a large degree - so basically they'll do it early because they've got the time and it gets it out of the way, but if there's other demands then it can be pushed back by weeks or even a couple months.