Latitude 2025

[ilovelanegan]

4 hours ago, alberto_balsam said:

It took us 9 hours to travel from London, with around 6 hours to make it the 6 miles from the level crossing as you approach from the south, arriving just before midnight. We ended up entirely missing both bands we wanted to see on Thursday and had to put up tents in the dark.

 

Obviously there was zero messaging through the app until about 11pm, and that was just to say the gates would remain open.

 

Latitude was already a tough sell with the lame main stage lineups they put out these days but the above means we won't be going back. There were lots of good things about the weekend but the Thursday pissed me off too much.

 

Identical Thursday experience to us! Booked early, despite our reservations, as our sizeable crew were very keen (following a good experience just year) and we had the discount for returning tickets. Everyone was massively underwhelmed with the line-up especially considering the excellent offerings elsewhere this summer. 

 

Part of me thinks 'never again' but realistically; the dates work, the kids love it, it's a known quantity, the facilities are decent/ clean and most importantly, our big festival crew are awesome people. So, if everyone else is keen we will suck it up again. Also for their 20th anniversary, surely SURELY the lineup will not be as crap??

[Furq]

On 01/08/2025 at 13:59, ilovelanegan said:

 

Also for their 20th anniversary, surely SURELY the lineup will not be as crap??

 

Will be an interesting one for sure. As discussed a few times now, the organisers seem intent on aiming the festival squarely at parents (with money), and shaking off 20-somethings.

But leaving zero cutting edge?!

 

Snow Patrol again maybe? Lol

[Furq]

Interesting reading multiple accounts of groups of feral teens running amok, and abuse/violence in the family camping area (unaccompanied kids).

 

Was it really that bad this year?

 

Surprised organisers would be lax about that given how they position the festival now.

 

Edited August 4, 2025 by Furq

[Swiss Tony]

On 01/08/2025 at 13:59, ilovelanegan said:

Also for their 20th anniversary, surely SURELY the lineup will not be as crap??

Glastonbury is on a fallow year and it's the 20th anniversary 2026, so I am hoping it could be a more solid line up next year. Hopefully more decent bands available to book if Glasto is off the cards for them.

[Swiss Tony]

15 hours ago, Furq said:

Interesting reading multiple accounts of groups of feral teens running amok, and abuse/violence in the family camping area (unaccompanied kids).

 

Was it really that bad this year?

 

Surprised organisers would be lax about that given how they position the festival now.

 

Pissed me off at the time, but with hind sight maybe not as bad as it seemed in the moment. Finally caught up on my sleep!

[Swiss Tony]

On 01/08/2025 at 13:59, ilovelanegan said:

Part of me thinks 'never again' but realistically; the dates work, the kids love it, it's a known quantity, the facilities are decent/ clean and most importantly, our big festival crew are awesome people. So, if everyone else is keen we will suck it up again.

I felt the same way when I got home. But my family love it, it's less than an hour from home for us and loads of people we know go as well, so will probably be back. Will wait for the line up though this time.

[ilovelanegan]

23 hours ago, Furq said:

Snow Patrol again maybe? Lol

 

[MercuryTrev]

On 29/07/2025 at 14:28, Swiss Tony said:

 

Negatives, without getting into a bitch about chairs, trolleys and the traffic issues getting in, which are covered at length on the Facecloth Unofficial Latitude Group.

• Groups of teenagers in Family camping/campervans keeping people up all night with noise and security doing nothing about it. These were older teenagers, presumably they came in with parents or younger siblings and then set up camp with their mates. We're not talking 'high jinx' harmless fun either, but proper drunken lout behaviour to intimidate and disturb campers around them.

 

 

On this point, what was the noise like in Regular Campervans?  We've never been in there because we have a 10yo kid so tend to go for 'family' but I suspect it is actually quieter in 'regular' because the kind of people who go to Latitude in a 'van without kids generally go to bed when when they get back to their van/motorhome/caravan.

 

Is it generally nice and quiet in Regular Campervans at night?  

[Andy3229]

It’s pretty quiet, a bit of noise from folks playing a bit of music in the morning (us included). We tend to sit outside and have a few drinks and chat, following the trek back at night. It’d be nice to have a field closer to the action for over 55’s !!!!

[Swiss Tony]

On 18/09/2025 at 12:50, MercuryTrev said:

 

On this point, what was the noise like in Regular Campervans?  We've never been in there because we have a 10yo kid so tend to go for 'family' but I suspect it is actually quieter in 'regular' because the kind of people who go to Latitude in a 'van without kids generally go to bed when when they get back to their van/motorhome/caravan.

 

Is it generally nice and quiet in Regular Campervans at night?  

No idea, since we were in Family campervans, but I'd expect you'd be right. I will say the walk to general campervans looked much further.