LATITUDE! Friday!

(Sorry I actually started writing this like two weeks ago, but because I went on holiday and because I'm just lazy I've only just finished it off! Again I say I'm sorry!)

So last night I was reading a review on Latitude that was done by The Guardian and it was absolute shit. The guy had no idea what he was talking about! He compared it to Glastonbury and said it wasn’t rock and roll enough. First off, it’s not meant to be rock and roll. Second, Glastonbury is one of the biggest festivals going so why is he comparing it to Latitude, which is a festival meant for less mainstream artists?! But the worst thing about his review was that it was done before the festival had even finished! Any artists that played on Sunday were not reviewed! Eurgh. Anyway I've decided I'm going to do three posts, one for each day and just tell you a little about the artists I saw.

So I'm going to start off with my favourite band on the Friday and the main stage headliner: The National. These guys are dark, but good god I love it. It’s weird because you don't actually realise how dark some of the lyrics actually are when listening to them, 'I was afraid I'd eat your brains' and 'All the very best of us, string ourselves up for love', I would call this dark. But not emo dark, it’s kind of a soothing catchy dark if that makes sense? As the lead singer (Matt Berninger) said ''We're a nice, happy band really! We just like to sing about eating each other.'' So these guys have been around for quite some time, their first album came out in 2001, but they only really came to public attention last year with their newest album 'High Violet', which I highly recommend! As they were my favourite band on the Friday I've stuck on two songs, both personal favourites of mine (even though I love all of their songs), the first being 'Terrible Love' and the second is 'Conversation 16'.

KT Tunstall was great on the main stage; I've been wanting to see her live for some time, so this was my opportunity! The things she can do with a loop pedal..... The only thing that spoilt it was I had sun cream in my eye and it would not stop watering! So when she said 'this is a sad song, I want to see some tears' I said 'ohhh dear...' She also had a woman doing each song in sign language, which is rather cool! I think KT has to be one of my favourite women artists, when I think of rock and roll women, I think of KT Tunstall. 'Uummannaq Song' is easily one of my favourites by her; it’s off her newest album 'Tiger Suit' and it just makes you want to move!

Now I love Chapel Club, but their live set wasn't too great..... This was mostly due to the instruments, especially the drums being too loud, meaning the singers’ voice was just drowned, which is just a shame as I think he has a great voice. I feel if they had just turned the volumes down slightly it would have much better. I may give them another chance at Leeds Fest if they don't clash. Anyway I love their album 'Palace' and I would recommend it to anyone. Their music is abit shoegazey and it’s nice to just sit and let it drift in and out. Was hard to pick a song, as I like just about all of the album, but I managed to decide upon 'Five Trees' for your listening pleasure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-Ouc257ko

I have always thought that The Vaccines were not very good, but seen as my friends were off to see them and nothing else that stood out was on at the same time I decided to give them a go. Ok, after seeing them live I will admit they are better than I thought they was (Although I still think they aren't as good as everybody makes them out to be) and some of their songs are good to sing and bounce to. I feel it’s mostly the radios fault for giving me wrong views on the band, as all I ever hear by them is 'Post Break-Up Sex' which is played constantly and is a pretty poor song really! If the main radio stations played some of their other songs for a change, such as 'If You Wanna' or 'All In White' then maybe then I would have liked them more! BBC 6Music were playing 'If You Wanna' earlier this week (shows you which radio station plays more variety!) so that’s the song I'm putting on here! P.S: There was some random man who climbed up the pole holding the tent up and the band had to stop to ask him to come down?!! I got told it was four stories high?!! Ohh god.....

There were a few other artists I would have liked to have seen, but unfortunately they either clashed with one of the artists mentioned or I was eating! These Artists include: Various Cruelties, Paloma Faith, Caribou and Admiral Fallow. My friends also say that Bombay Bicycle Club and Bright Eyes were very good.