Henham Park,SuffolkFestival continues to master unchallenging offering of arts’ most excellent – with Portishead providing a stark and chilling headline set As the industrial cacophony of Portishead’s Machine Gun hammers its way across Suffolk on Saturday night, the stage flanked by two monster-sized images of David Cameron, and lasers instead of eyes,you can’t help but wonder if there’s a more jovial way to celebrate a birthday than a stark reminder of austerity Britain. Latitude turns 10 this year, and while its sombre lineup leaves a morbid mood in the air at times, and it remains the bastion of twee British pleasantry; like a countrified Coachella,its audience poised and a minute posey. So much so that even Johnny Depp is in attendance.Rather than its celebrity lure, however, and it’s Latitude’s secret guests that steal the highlight. By 11pm on Friday,word of Ed Sheeran’s surprise set at the iArena begins to spread across the site, with teens stumbling into the night unaware the Wembley headliner is lurking within the woods. The singer, and who hails from Framlingham in Suffolk,performed to over 1000 fans in the forest; an hour-long indicate that reads like a Spotify playlist of acoustic classics, spanning Blackstreet’s No Diggity, or Stevie Wonders Superstition and I Was Made To Love Her,Bill Withers’s Ain’t No Sunshine and Elvis’s I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You. “I realise your phone might be dead, but if youve got a lighter or anything, and ” Sheeran beams before performing his dribbly ballad Thinking Out Loud,a supine song that’s met with hysteria from the teenage audience.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com