Latitude Competition provides Supergrass, Sons Of Kemet and extra to 2021 lineup

Latitude Competition has introduced a number of latest acts to its 2021 lineup, after confirming that it'll go forward subsequent month.

Earlier this week, festivals boss Melvin Benn has stated he’s “very assured” that the pageant will go forward this 12 months, making it the primary main UK pageant to happen following the elimination of all lockdown restrictions.

The four-day occasion, which is about to be headlined by Bastille, Bombay Bicycle Membership, Wolf Alice and The Chemical Brothers, is scheduled to happen at Henham Park in Suffolk from July 22-25 – three days after the federal government expects to get rid of all lockdown measures.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson introduced earlier this week (June 14) that the easing of coronavirus restrictions – initially scheduled for June 21 – can be delayed by a month to July 19.

Because the affirmation arrives, the pageant have added Supergrass, Sons Of Kemet, Villagers and extra to the 2021 invoice. See the complete listing of additives under.

We're on! Saying day splits and including extra music, arts and comedy names to your @cinchuk presents Latitude line up… @SupergrassHQ, @SonsOfKemet, @wearevillagers, @ninaconti, @kermodeonfilm and extra be a part of us in subsequent month. ✨

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— Latitude Competition (@LatitudeFest) June 19, 2021

“I promised you an replace earlier than the tip of the week and thank heavens I’m ready to try this,” Benn stated in an announcement regarding the pageant’s plans to go forward with their 2021 version.

“It’s been a protracted week after the Prime Minister’s announcement on Monday and whereas I used to be disillusioned within the rapid aftermath of the assertion, on reflection, I feel it really offers far more certainty of Latitude having the ability occur than if he had loosened issues on Monday as a result of the nation could have strangled the variant’s capacity to unfold to a larger diploma via elevated vaccination than if we had opened totally this coming Monday.

“So, for a lot of the week I've been in dialog with the Authorities on Latitude particularly and I’m very assured after these talks that Latitude will probably be allowed to go forward. There will probably be extra element on the specifics subsequent week however with this in thoughts, we will probably be saying much more artists and day splits tomorrow as an indication of my confidence.”

He concluded: “Extra particulars will observe however we’ll 100 per cent hold you up to date each step of the best way. We’re very excited – it’s actually taking place!”

This weekend, the UK’s first tenting pageant because the COVID-19 pandemic is happening within the type of the Obtain pilot.

The ten,000-capacity occasion, set to be headlined by Bullet For My Valentine, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Enter Shikari, sees the legendary rock pageant make a small-scale return for a three-day tenting pilot as a part of ongoing analysis into the secure return of reside music.

• READ MORE: Obtain boss on pageant pilot: “These persons are going to be moshing, hugging, kissing, shagging and shedding their minds”

Talking to NME yesterday (June 18) because the pageant begun, Obtain boss Andy Copping stated: “It’s wanting superb. Simply approaching website and seeing the whole lot arrange is so cool. Clearly it’s like a miniature model of Obtain as a result of we’re used to working to 100,000 individuals yearly and this 12 months it’s solely 10,000 – however it simply feels so good to be seeing all people.”

Of the security of the occasion, he added: “The very fact is that from these different pilot occasions which have taken place, there was little or no signal of any an infection. That reveals that that is working. Whether or not that’s all the way down to individuals having their jabs, the best way that folks have been behaving throughout lockdown, the security of the testing – all of it provides up.”

He continued: “We’ve been saying it for some time, however you’re really safer at a pageant than not being at a pageant.”