More this week

[Paul ™]

Rob da Bank

More @Bestival announces this week comrades..maybe weds..and not the other headliners..yet..

[dan8k]

Hoping for ofwgkta

[zeppelin]

Hoping for ofwgkta

[rexclark]

Looking forward to hearing who else is playin.

Edited March 5, 2012 by rexclark

[LondonTom]

Hoping for ofwgkta

[Joe-]

apparently they were awful at reading last year

[Joe-]

Lots of good smaller acts according to Rob.

[Poleski]

Awesome newsssss

[dingbat2]

i am hoping for Battles and M83 especially as they have both just been announced for Latitude

[Joe-]

i am hoping for Battles and M83 especially as they have both just been announced for Latitude

[Dave The Hedgehog]

i am hoping for Battles and M83 especially as they have both just been announced for Latitude

[zeppelin]

Latitude announced Explosions in the Sky, them at Bestival would be the best thing known to man!

[Joe-]

I must be the biggest hipster if Latitude's line-up is aimed at them, haha.

[Joe-]

Latitude announced Explosions in the Sky, them at Bestival would be the best thing known to man!

[dingbat2]

middle-class arseholes and Caffe Nero loyalists

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Have you actually been to Latitude?

[Joe-]

I love Coldplay

[dingbat2]

No, but whenever I speak to people who have gone to Latitude, the general feeling I get is that it's aimed towards people who are unable to form their own opinions of what sort of music they actually like and just like whatever it is that the general consensus of critics tell them to listen to. Hence the 'Pitchforkiness' of it. There's an overall feeling I get from speaking to people that the people who go to it are the sort of people who'd say "Colplay are shit and you're an idiot if you like them" as opposed to "I don't like Coldplay but if they make you happy then great" - people built to conform to whatever opinion/cultural agenda/trend is popular at that particular time.

I've spoken to about 10 maybe 15 people who have been and they have that attitude, but when I was considering going to it - because it's the sort of festival I think my girlfriend would love - I think I was turned off the minute I went onto the forums over a year ago and read somebody extolling the virtues of listening to Nirvana whilst in the same breath complaining about how Latitude was fast becoming oriented towards "The Superdry Crowd" as opposed to the "Dege and Skinner crowd", and people en masse agreeing. I don't look down on people who go to it, of course, because doing so would make me no better than them.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I love Coldplay

[Joe-]

I don't, but I know all the lyrics to Take It On the Run by REO Speedwagon.

Other achievements include: Hearing 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want' before Christmas last year and not giving a flying fuck as to what "Seapunk" is.

[smogo]

people who are unable to form their own opinions of what sort of music they actually like and just like whatever it is that the general consensus of critics tell them to listen to.

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I don't look down on people who go to it, of course, because doing so would make me no better than them.

[dingbat2]

No, but whenever I speak to people who have gone to Latitude, the general feeling I get is that it's aimed towards people who are unable to form their own opinions of what sort of music they actually like and just like whatever it is that the general consensus of critics tell them to listen to.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Dude, I'm not disagreeing with the content of what you said, but if you're going to look down on certain people (which you are, here and everytime you mention the word "hipster"), at least admit that you are! (And some people deserve to be looked down on, they bring it on themselves.)

[stylishkids]

No, but whenever I speak to people who have gone to Latitude, the general feeling I get is that it's aimed towards people who are unable to form their own opinions of what sort of music they actually like and just like whatever it is that the general consensus of critics tell them to listen to. Hence the 'Pitchforkiness' of it. There's an overall feeling I get from speaking to people that the people who go to it are the sort of people who'd say "Colplay are shit and you're an idiot if you like them" as opposed to "I don't like Coldplay but if they make you happy then great" - people built to conform to whatever opinion/cultural agenda/trend is popular at that particular time.

I've spoken to about 10 maybe 15 people who have been and they have that attitude, but when I was considering going to it - because it's the sort of festival I think my girlfriend would love - I think I was turned off the minute I went onto the forums over a year ago and read somebody extolling the virtues of listening to Nirvana whilst in the same breath complaining about how Latitude was fast becoming oriented towards "The Superdry Crowd" as opposed to the "Dege and Skinner crowd", and people en masse agreeing. I don't look down on people who go to it, of course, because doing so would make me no better than them.

[Joe-]

If you guys don't stop arguing, I'm turning this thread around.

Hipster is an irky word, mainly because I love the music that has been branded with the 'hipster' label. But whatever, that's just like, my opinion, man.

Edited March 6, 2012 by Joe-