St Etienne, The Temper Trap & more added to Latitude

St Etienne, The Temper Trap, and Kap Bambino are amongst the latest additions for Latitude Festival. Both St Etienne, and The Temper Trap, have been added to the Uncut Arena, whilst Kap Bambino will perform in the Sunrise Arena.

Newly added for the Film and Music Arena are Future Cinema Presents Black Cat White Cat with Taraf de Haidouks - Taraf De Haidouks, one of the biggest gypsy bands in the world will start to play near the Obelisk Arena after the last concert and travel to the Film and Music tent collecting a large following on the way; Noise Of Art presents ‘Love Bites – The Dance Of The Vampires - the soundtrack to Love Bites has been specially created for Latitude festival by a collaboration between They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Serge Santiago and Les Hommes Du Train (the alter ego of Noise of Art founder) Ben Osborne; Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before with Kieran Evans, Adem & Friends - a feature documentary about influential UK singer songwriter Vashti Bunyan, featuring a performance from contributor Adem live onstage; Turner Prize Winner Jeremy Deller will give a talk; Jeremy Warmsley - performing the bizarrely beautiful songs of Tom Waits and Daniel Johnston; One eskimO - will be bringing the worlds of film and music together, with the band playing in front of a big screen showing films of the trials and tribulations of One eskimO and friends; London Short Film Festival- presenting the cream of the short film crop; and 2006 film Night Of The Living Dead in 3D.

New for the Literary Arena is comedian Frank Skinner - discussing his life and work as featured in his new book Frank Skinner ‘On The Road’; Grace Maxwell & Edwyn Collins talk about Grace's book 'Falling and Laughing: The Restoration Of Edwyn Collins'; there's also Punk Fiction with Cathi Unsworth, Nicholas Hogg, Janine Bullman, Salena Godden, Dev Hynes, and Lee Bullman.

In the Comedy Arena there's comedy (really?:-) from Lee Mack, Stephen Grant, Rob Rouse, John Gordillo, and Kerry Godliman.

Meanwhile, the Cabaret Arena has The Whoopee Club, Ima Doll, Fancy Chance, Ekat, Beaux Belles, Russella, The Two Wrongies, Miss Lady G Luck, Simon Deville, and Des O’Connor (no, not the singing one).

These are the latest additions to an extensive bill of acts headlined by Pet Shop Boys on Friday, Grace Jones on Saturday, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on Sunday. Other acts playing over the weekend include White Lies, The Pretenders, Flashguns, Squeeze, Mew, Ladyhawke, Teitur, Bat For Lashes, Spiritualized, Magazine, Newton Faulkner, Doves, Editors, Gossip, Turin Brakes (acoustic), Belle & Sebastian (DJ set), Music Go Music, Hjaltalin, Little Boots, Band Of Skulls, Yes Giantess, Sugar Crisis, Dear Reader, Catherine A.D., Jonathan Jeremiah, Alan Pownall, First Aid Kit, Sound Of Guns, Golden Silvers, Slow Club, Post War Years, The XX, Pulled Apart By Horses, Joe Gideon & The Shark, Dag For Dag, 2 Hot 2 Sweat, The Late Greats, and The Chakras. For the line-up details as available please click here.

Latitude takes place from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th July 2009, with the festival opening it's gates on Thursday 16th July for some limited non-musical entertainment. Latitude festival goers can expect music, art, comedy, film, literature, theatre, performance art, dance, sculpture, workshops, restaurants and waiter service bars.

Weekend tickets are on sale and are priced at £150, day tickets are priced at £60, and a campervan Pass is priced at £10. Children aged 12 or under will be eligible for free tickets for Latitude Festival 2009 when accompanied by a ticket holding adult.

To buy tickets, click here.

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