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Lana Del Ray and Ben Howard Added to Latitude Festival Line-Up

• 26th Mar 2012

Latitude, the UK’s favourite multi-arts festival, has announced that Lana Del Rey will join The Word Arena the seventh edition of the festival, which takes place at Henham Park in Suffollk from 12 – 15th July. The multi-award winning Lana Del Rey, whose bewitching voice, songs and bad girl persona have catapulted her from a social media sensation to a critically acclaimed artist topping the album charts in seven countries in less than a year.

Also joining the music line-up on the Obelisk Arena will be word of mouth sensation and rising star Ben Howard, whose acoustic folk/rock vibes have already led to a series of sell out gigs since the release of his debut album Every Kingdom last year. Lana Del Rey and Ben Howard will join a star-studded bill that already includes Bon Iver, Elbow and Paul Weller.

The Film & Music Arena welcomes genre-spanning dance party starters the Phenomenal Handclap Band who fuse international psych, soul and cosmic disco for a truly unique experience. Experimental audiovisual collective Noise Of Art, will be transforming the Film & Music Arena into a space for electronic happenings and as Time Out states “When it comes to mega multimedia events, DJ Ben Osborne and his Noise of Art Collective are all over it.” The “horror collage” People Like Us will be stopping off at Latitude with A Magical Misery Tour. Art of Noise will be entertaining festival goers late into the night in Pandora’s Playground with their Psychedelic Curiosity Show, which blends retro-futuristic steampunk with 60’s psychedelia all via the wonders of a VW hippy mobile.

Over in The Faraway Forest the Occupy Movement will be taken up a level with Miss Behave’s Mess – expect the weird and wonderful (and everything in between!) with The Mess Tent offering bite sized shows, The Bozo Show where you can drown the clown and Popcorn, Surprises and Flummery brought to you by Miss Behave, described by The Independent as, “Absolutely charming, startlingly entertaining, and with a hugely enjoyable ‘Aargh’ factor.”

Latitude’s stellar comedy bill for 2012 will be augmented by appearances from rapper, actor and comedian Doc Brown, TV regular Holly Walsh and sets from Mark Olver, Josh Widdicombe and newcomer James Acaster. Marcus Brigstocke and Andre Vincent will appear with a special edition of the BBC Four Show The Late Edition, renamed The Early Edition, while young comedians will be represented by E4’s School of Comedy. TV and radio favourite Dave Gorman will be providing laughs in the Literary Arena and Latitude’s Cabaret Arena has added a host of hilarious new acts to its bill that include nightclub favourite Boogaloo Stu, Checkley Bush, Richard Dedomenici, Oyster Eyes, Christmas For Two, Idiots of Ants, Guilt & Shame, Joel Dommett, Matt Rees, Late Night Gimp Fight, Danny McLoughlin, Nish Kumar and Joe Wells.

As part of the DJ line-up keeping the party spirit alive and kicking into the night will be Goldierocks. The international DJ, presenter and party planner du-jour will be unleashing her own brand of energised performance Djing In The Woods so be sure to go seek her out!

TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for Latitude 2012 are available to buy now from various online ticket outlets. An instalment plan will be available for fans who want to spread the cost of their Latitude weekend ticket between now and July, for full details head to link

Weekend adult tickets £175.00
Weekend child (5-12 years) tickets £5.00
Adult day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £75.00
Child (5-12 years) day tickets Fri, Sat, Sun £5.00
Campervan Permit £40.00
Tickets subject to booking fees.

Weekend tickets prices include car parking and camping.
Day tickets include car parking only.

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