The festival has already announced headline acts like; Bon Iver, Elbow and Paul Weller, but had kept back a few suprises for closer the time. New acts across a variety of stages were yesterday released, with some highlights being; Catherine AD, Slow Club, King Charles, Smoke Fairies and Of Monsters And Men.

At The Lake Stage, BBC Radio 1 DJ and champion of new music, Huw Stephens has been asked to curate his own line-up. Headline slots go to sonically challenging, electro-indie group Clock Opera, while other acts include:

Los Campesinos! / Herman Düne / Alt-J / Lucy Rose / Seye / The Crookes / Kwes / Weird Dreams / POLIÇA / Tall Ships / Hooray for Earth / Tim Ten Yen / Theme Park / The Cast of Cheers / Cate Le Bon / Sam Airey / Peace.

Alongside all the top notch musical activity, Latitude has proved its diversity, by including a number of other productions, including film, theatre and comedy.

Sadler’s Wells will present an excerpt from the hugely popular Sadler’s Wells Production, The Most Incredible Thing on The Waterfront Stage. A collaboration between pop legends Pet Shop Boys and choreographer/director Javier De Frutos, The Most Incredible Thing, won the Evening Standard’s inaugural Beyond Theatre Award after its premiere in 2011, and recently enjoyed a return run at the theatre this spring.

On the Film and Music Arena Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and co-director Nick Abraham present their new film The Bruce Lacey Experience. Three years in the making, the film examines Lacey’s remarkable legacy as an all-round cultural chameleon. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Jeremy Deller. The Royal Albert Hall arrives at Latitude presenting the innovative violinist Hahn-Bin. One of the world’s most exciting and original classical musicians, Hahn-Bin is not only a prodigious talent but a style visionary who recently graced the cover of fashion bible i-D Magazine. Hahn-Bin recently launched The Renaissance of Classical Music, a project which aims to bring the style into mainstream culture.

In the Comedy Arena, Jack Dee, Brian Cox, Tim Minchin and others will be joined by Phill Jupitus, as well as multi award-winning, fringe sell-out, mind reader who can’t read minds, Chris Cox and revered Canadian stand-up Tony Law will be regaling audiences with his time travelling exploits in the company of his infamous sausage dog.

With the fall in the number of traditional summer festivals in the UK this year, Latitude is surely one of the hottest tickets in town for those who want to while the days away baking in a sweaty tent and drinking warm cider.

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The event, which runs from August 24 – 26, will see the Welsh indie pop band open the Main Stage on Saturday (August 25) at Reading and Sunday at Leeds (August 26). They play beneath the Mystery Jets and Blood Red Shoes.

Social Distortion and Less Than Jake will headline the Lock Up stage. The stage is hosted by BBC Radio 1’s Mike Davies, presenter of the Punk Show.

He said: “Having an incredible Punk Rock line-up every summer has become a standard for the Lock Up Stage. And this year is no different.

“Old favourites, new heroes and even surprise guests, we have it all and it will be one hell of a festival.”

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The record will be the band’s 4th and will follow up the underground indie hit Romance Is Boring which was released last year. The tracklisting for Hello Sadness is as such:

By Your Hand
Songs About Your Girlfriend
Hello Sadness
Life Is A Long Time
Every Defeat A Divorce (Three Lions)
Hate For The Island
The Black Bird, The Dark Slope
To Tundra
Baby I Got The Death Rattle
Light Leaves, Dark Sees pt. II

Los Campesinos! do not have any forthcoming tours planned but it is expected that they will support the release of their new record with a new UK tour.

As soon as they are confirmed Los Campesinos tour dates will be available here.

The band’s frontman Gareth Campesinos! wrote on their blog “I know that a lot of people get frustrated during the period of time between an album being declared “finished” and the album’s actual release, so I thought I’d let you know what’s going on at the moment.”

“Right now, our main man and sound guru, Tom is exchanging final mixes with producer John Goodmanson, pruning every last note and drum hit tom make sure every soug sounds as perfect as it can.”

He went on to comment that this mastering process will begin next week and although he did not reveal an estimate of a release date for the band’s third record, it is expected that it will be out in the near the future.

Stay tuned for news of Los Campesinos! tour dates.

Los Campesinos! will play:

Wrexham Central Station (February 11)
Liverpool EVOL (Feb 12)
York Fibbers (Feb 13)
Aberdeen Tunnels (Feb 15)
Dundee Dog House (Feb 16)
Edinburgh Bongo (Feb 17)
Derby The Venue (Feb 18)
Leicester Musician (Feb 19)
Cambridge Junction (Feb 21)
Norwich Arts Centre (Feb 22)
Brighton Audio- New Slang (Feb 23)
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms (Feb 24)
London KOKO (Feb 25)
Birmingham The Rainbow (March 1)
Northampton The Roadmender (Mar 2)
Reading Plug N Play (Mar 3)
Kingston Banquet New Slang (Mar 4)
Cardiff University Solus (May 21)

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