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Latitude Diary, Day 3: Another Music in a Different Tent

Buzzcocks, in the wee small hours of 20th July (approx 3am, can't be sure), courtesy of some YouTube and some good natured soul with a camcorder. Clare rather unkindly said that they looked like a pub darts team. I reckon they played like a force of nature.Brother Younger and I were taking care of business in the mosh pit. It may be undignified, but it's fun. If you see someone in the crowd jumping up and down in a mad pork pie hat it's probably him.

Latitude Diary, Day 3

On Latitude Saturday (otherwise known as 19th July), Sigur Rós were the headlines. They were good, but I don't like them as much as I feel I ought too. There's something about that finely-crafted, Icelandic, plinky-plonky minimalism that makes me feel as though I've stepped into a mobile phone commercial. I guess I can only take minimalism in small doses.It was just after the Sigur Rós set that we encountered the Parachute Man. We were sitting on the field when some guy tripped over my foot, flew through the air and landed on a patch of grass nearby, face first. [...]

Thursday night is Dark Knight night

I'm off to see it this evening. Can't get tickets for the local IMAX, so will have to make do with a regular sized big-ass screen.I'll let you know what I think.

Latitude Diary: Day 2, Part 2

Friday highlights included:12.35 Robin Ince at the Comedy Arena. Very funny. Here he is at one of his Latitude Book Clubs, having an impromptu "Peel-Off" with Ross Noble:15.00 Micah P. Hinson. Throaty Americana music. Good shit.15.45 Bearsuit. Say it after me: "Jupiter FORCE! Jupiter FORCE!" Fucking awesome. More about them later.20.00 Death Cab For Cutie. Clare's a fan. I'm being won over. They were good.Here you go, Clare:21.30 Franz Ferdinand(?) Guilty Pleasures: late night cheese. No wonder I couldn't get to sleep.Stuff I missed:My old pal Nicky arrived on Friday so I helped her unpack, pitch her tent and lose [...]

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My name is Tom Lennon, and I’m a freelance writer who specializes in humor at the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum. My work has appeared on various sites, including BuzzFeed and Time Out, and I contributed an essay to the book The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe. More recently, my article “The French Comic That Changed the World” appeared in the first volume of Metal Hurlant magazine (Humanoids Publishing, 2025).

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