{"id":572,"date":"2007-05-25T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2007-05-25T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T15:32:27","slug":"latitude-festival-the-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"latitude festival &#8211; the interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <META content=\"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441\" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE><\/STYLE> <\/HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>this is a little different. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the run up to the festival season, one of the  new entries to the season, <STRONG>latitude<\/STRONG>, (<EM>12th-15th july<\/EM>),  are getting various folks from their impressive lineup to answer&nbsp; few easy  questions.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>however, being honest, the fact that not one of the  folks answers in regards to the sheep mentions my current hero,&nbsp;<EM>shaun  the sheep, <\/EM>concerns me somewhat.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>unfortunately, i cannot vouch for the festival  itself, as this is one i have not yet experienced, <\/FONT><FONT face=Arial  size=2>but so far the lineup is looking mighty interesting, especially when  considering that a attitude of latitude seems to be focused on the whole arts  community as opposed to just music, with a lot of focus on the whole world of  people with words, some which will be funny, and a few which i suspect  wont.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>could be one to check out if you were unable to get  tix for glastonbury.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>oh &#8211; and if you look closely, it appears that  hidden in the lineup is <EM>ireallylovemusic <\/EM>favourites,  <STRONG>soulsavers.<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>need i say more as to why this would be one to  definitely check out.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A  href=\"http:\/\/www.latitudefestival.com\/home\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>the interviews<\/U><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>the hold steady &#8211; tad (lead  guitarist)<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT><\/STRONG>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1.) what aspect of latitude festival interests you  the most and why?<BR><EM>it&#8217;s always fun to meet other bands. and you can drink  all day. and then they&#8217;ll pay us.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2.) what can people expect you to bring to the  festival and do you have anything special planned?<BR><EM>we&#8217;re bringing a  mountain lion. if we can get it through customs. might be weird. just don&#8217;t look  it straight in the eyes. it will eat you. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3.) who are you most looking forward to seeing at  the festival and why?<BR><EM>girls. lots of girls. and drunk people making  terrible decisions. myself included. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4.) if you weren&#8217;t doing this what would you be  doing?<BR><EM>drinking and peeing on cars. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>5.) what is your favourite colour sheep?<BR><EM>i  like them closely shaven&#8230;<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>wild beasts<\/STRONG><BR>1.) what aspect of  latitude festival interests you the most and why?<BR><EM>having never been to  latitude festival before and for that matter having never played any festival  before, we don&#8217;t really know what to expect, i suppose what we&#8217;re most interested  in is how do we lug our amps and drums into the middle of a bloody field? and  why? because we don&#8217;t want to be stranded with them under the baking sun,  surrounded by hippy revellers and having to thumb some dodgy truck driver for a  lift.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2.) what can people expect you to bring to the  festival and do you have anything special planned?<BR><EM>we&#8217;ll bring our bbq  and plan to have some speciality meats.&nbsp;<BR><\/EM>3.) who are you most  looking forward to seeing at the festival and  why?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR><EM>arcade fire-their  enormity is mind-boggling.<BR><\/EM>4.) if you weren&#8217;t doing this what would you  be doing?<BR><EM>our weeks come by like pass the parcel, the music stopped on  july 15th so we&#8217;ll unravel with relish, otherwise we&#8217;d be passing that parcel  waiting for the music to stop.<BR><\/EM>5.) what is your favourite colour  sheep?<BR><EM>coming from the lake district we know our sheep. blue-faced  leicester must boast not only the finest colour of any sheep, but also the most  dignified persona of any livestock in the farmyard today.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>david &#8211; herman dune <BR><\/STRONG>1.) what  aspect of latitude festival interests you the most and why? <BR><EM>man, of  course, playing my songs to a bunch of festival-freaks. <\/EM><\/DIV> <DIV>2.) what can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have  anything special planned? <BR><EM>i&#8217;m bringing my songs, i&#8217;m planning on playing  them, i hope the kids will like them. <\/EM><\/DIV> <DIV>3.) who are you most looking forward to seeing at the festival and why?  <BR><EM>probably, i&#8217;d say regina spektor, the guitar player from the strokes,  and also tony allen, i&#8217;ve never seen fela play, i&#8217;d just like to see his drummer  play (he&#8217;s the drummer for damon albarn) <\/EM><\/DIV> <DIV>4.) if you weren&#8217;t doing this what would you be doing? <BR><EM>july, i&#8217;d  probably be playing basket ball and be trying to finish up the songs for herman  dune&#8217;s next album <\/EM><\/DIV> <DIV>5.) what is your favourite colour sheep? <BR><EM>i love black sheep, white  sheep, i love sheep!<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this is a little different. in the run up to the festival season, one of the new entries to the season, latitude, (12th-15th july), are getting various folks from their impressive lineup to answer&nbsp; few easy questions. however, being honest, the fact that not one of the folks answers in regards to the sheep mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}