tickets now on sale for Sigur Ros, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand at Latitude

Headlining Latitude Festival will be Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, and Interpol who will close the festival on Sunday. They will be joined by a plethora of support acts over the weekend, the first of which have been announced as Death Cab For Cutie, Elbow, The Breeders, Amadou And Mariam, and M.I.A for the festival which is held over the weekend of Henham Park Estate, Beccles, Suffolk on Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th July.

There will be more live music acts still to come and there are other at the tented Uncut Arena, the small and intimate Sunrise Arena hosted Steve Lamacq and Dermot O'Leary, and the Lake Stage which showcases new talent with 'BBC Introducing' and is curated by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens. There are no bands confirmed for these stages yet.

Jon Dunn who curates the music for Latitude says, "I'm excited with our headliners for this year’s festival and looking forward to announcing further great acts over the forthcoming weeks. Franz Ferdinand will be phenomenal, Interpol will rock and captivate and the beautifully ethereal and epic Sigur Ros will soar."

Latitude not only offers music for the festival goer but a full spectrum of art with individual arenas dedicated to film, theatre, poetry, literature, cabaret, and comedy.

Laughs will be provided at the Pimm's Comedy Arena which is housed in a larger tent and screens outside, headlined by comedians Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, and Rich Hall (Otis Lee Crenshaw). They are joined by Simon Amstell, Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Phill Jupitus and friends, Lucy Porter, Andrew Lawrence, Dave Fulton, Ben Norris, Jon Richardson, Dan Atkinson, Jason Wood, Carey Marx, Stephen Grant, Hal Cruttenden, and Miles Jupp.

At night, the Comedy Arena hands over to the ultimate in feel good fun, the internationally famous Guilty Pleasures. Swap-A-Rama makes it's debut at this year's Saturday night at Latitude Festival. Every time the DJs ring the klaxon you must swap an item of clothing with someone next to you. You re advised to arrive in clothes you don't mind not ever seeing again! God knows what you'll end up going home in!

The Music and Film Arena mixes the alternative world of film and documentaries with live performances and visuals. Mark Lamarr will present a live selection of soul, ska, reggae, country, gospel and rap. Artists confirmed to play live are Buzzcocks, Eli 'Paperboy' Reed and the True Loves and The Heavy. The arena will have many more live acts still to be confirmed.

The arena will also play host to screenings, documentaries and discussions last year, courtesy of the involvement of the BAFTA including a Q&A session with Richard Curtis. In addition, Chris Shepherd will be curating at Latitude and bringing an afternoon of shorts, films, music and multi-talented artists. The tent will also open its doors to the Halloween Music And Film Club which will bring a full schedule of specifically chosen shorts, art and silent films and visuals, accompanied by live music, videos, dancers and DJ's.

The Literary Arena will have book readings, stories, discussions and laughter hosted by Vox 'N' Roll, Wordtheatre, Marcus Brigstocke: The Early Edition with book readings and a literary crop including Iain Banks reading from 'The Steep Approach to Garbadale', Hanif Kureishi, A L Kennedy, Irvine Welsh, Mike Gayle, Simon Armitage, John Burnside, Esther Freud, Gautam Malkani, Jenny Colgan, Claudia Hammond, Antonia Quirke, Andrew Clover, Jon Ronson, Bill Drummond, Peter Hook, Stuart Maconie, John Niven, Jon Mcgregor, Gregory Normington, and Robin Ince’s School For Gifted Children with Steward Lee, Jo Neary, Josie Long, Wayne Shepherd, Ben Goldacre, Bridget Christie, Martin White, and Gavin Osborn with many more to be announced over the coming months.

This year's Theatre Arena will be the world's first green stage fuel cell powered carbon neutral festival stage. Arcola will be providing state of the art low energy LED lighting and a Hydrogen Fuel Cell to power the stage. Performing artists will include Royal Court Theatre & Paines Plough, The Bush Theatre, Nabokov, Pick Of The Pleasance, Fat Tongue, Birds Of Britain, Theatre 503, Dirty Protest, Drywrite, and Arcola Theatre.

The Cabaret Arena will hold stage shows which will include Nathaniel-de-Ville's VauxhallVille Cabaret. Also at the festival for the first time is Sadler's Wells Theatre who will be presenting works on a specially designed stage at sunset on the lake at Latitude. Plus Lavish artists who brought the multi-coloured sheep one year will be adding their madcap art to the site and there will be Intimate Voices in the woods!

Radio 4 will this year be in the arena with Loose Ends and Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons. Also not only will the Pimms Bus be at Latitude but there will also be a 'Henham Park Island Paradise' which you can row out to and enjoy a glass of the summer drink. Plus there will be Aspall's cider and Penguin books will be bringing the Penguin Classics library to Latitude.

Tickets are priced at £130 for a full weekend ticket, Children under 13 are free. Day tickets for Friday, Saturday or Sunday are priced at £55 for adults. To buy tickets click here.

This year there will be a dedicated family campsite, for families with children under 13 (who can attend for FREE) within the public camping area and also a family campervan area within family camping.

Festival Republic Managing Director, Melvin Benn says, "I cannot wait. It has so much in store that July 17th cannot come quickly enough for me. Latitude has, as I had hoped, re written the rule book of what a festival might be and can be and of course therefore, immediately influenced other existing festivals and spurned copy cats. I am hardly surprised except that it has happened so quickly. It is a great compliment but it is only that. The real true festival of musical harmony, artistic and creative beauty is on the sunrise coast and is Latitude."

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