Kat Brown is a new writer here on My Chemical Toilet, bringing with her much experience of gigging, ligging and - quite probably - swigging. That’s her on the left in cartoon form. As an introduction she agreed to share her experience of this year’s Latitude with us. Theft, twats and a star of Spiderman singing about bait all featured.
1. Kindly tell us your name, age and where you’re from. Now.
My name is Kat Brown, I’m 24 and I’m from London. Sir.
2. Which festival have you recently attended?
Latitude!
3. Have you attended this festival before? If yes, how does this year compare?
Yes I have. And to be honest, this year was a bit shit. Not in terms of line-up which was lovely, or what was on offer, but from the wankers who decided to go along. I mean, seriously. It’s an arts festival in the middle of Suffolk, it’s hardly Leeds, so why all the beered-up twats with lax attitudes to suncare decided to come and “WEY-HEY!!!!!” their way into next Tuesday I’ll never know. Oh, and there was thievery, which was crap.
4. Which act gave the best performance, and why?
Patrick Wolf. He could recite the times table and still be entertaining.

5. If you could have promoted one act on the bill to headline status, who would you choose? Why?
The headliners were uniformly staid, safe choices, bar Arcade Fire (although you could argue that they’re the staid person’s idea of exciting and edgy). Still, all the people I thought should be headlining were, just on different stages. NYPC, Patrick Wolf – nice.
6. Did your opinion of any acts change radically as a result of their performance?
Cold War Kids were even more boring than I’d previously thought.
7. Nicest surprise / biggest disappointment (music-related or otherwise)?
My phone got nicked from the press tent. I had to phone the police and was a bit upset, but then someone found it outside the press tent! Hurray! Presumably whoever whipped it thought it was a bit shit.
8. What was the best heckle you heard?
“SUPERB!” bellowed very very loudly at howling bells.
9. Any high-quality onstage banter you feel deserves highlighting?
All of the Book Club’s sessions in the Literary Tent.
10. What was the funniest moment (music-related or otherwise)?
Falling asleep in the literary tent and waking up to find the stage filled with 26 people including Ian Hart and James Franco singing “MAGGOT MAGGOT” over and over. Although that was very very weird.
11. Weirdest moment (if different)?
See above.
12. Any moments of sheer terror you’d like to share?
The thought of some random person having my phone and its assorted horrors.
13. Anything you wish you’d brought with you?
Insect repellant. My legs are still screwed.
14. Anything you wish you’d left behind?
No.
15. Please mark the following elements out of 10, with any comments:
General facilities: 8/10
Crowd / audience: 7/10
Food and drink value for money: 6/10
16. Finally – anything else you’d like to mention?
Latitude was still lovely, but I spent more time watching comedy than music just to avoid the twats.

Thanks for taking part in our humble questionnaire. Your place in heaven is assured (assuming you haven’t previously murdered anyone).

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Posted by sophiebruce on Friday July 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am