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Just got back from Latitude 2008. Here are my festival highs:

• Elbow and Sigur Rós on the Obelisk arena on Saturday night. Utterly amazing
• Grinderman on Sunday. What can you say, just brilliant
• Some other bands, notably Gravenhurst and Truckers of Husk
• The Literature tent. What a great idea. Especially when it features Robin Ince and Ros Noble doing a “John Peel-off”
• Joanna Newsom. Previously I wasn’t that convinced by her but thought she was  spellbinding, even when she kept forgetting the lyrics to one of her songs she was so nervous. Bless her.
• The beer. Not just crap Carling but proper real ales: Hector’s Pure and Scarecrow. Nice one.
• Those refundable cups at the beer tents: what a great idea. Meant the site wasn’t a sea of broken plastic or paper cups
• Making an effort to be green

And lows:

• Julian Cope coming on late and only playing three songs
• Franz Ferdinand. Yawn. So, so boring
• Parents taking up four acres of space in the arenas with all their chairs, wheelbarrows, blankets and tents, and then talking all the way through the sets anyway. Bah!
• Not being able to get anywhere near the comedy tent for most of the festival.
• The size of the programme — like carrying a paperback book around with you