The sun is starting to shine as the summer begins and we slip into June, and yet it still feels like a long wait until Latitude festival on the 17th - 20th July. However, fear not as we will be whetting your appetite for the best weekend of the year with a series of Longing for Latitude events in the run up to the festival.
The first Longing for Latitude night to announce takes place at the ICA on Thursday 19th June with four top acts to give you a bit of a taster of what Latitude is about.
Indie six-piece Make Model are fast establishing themselves as one of the best bands to emerge from the highlands since Franz Ferdinand, many quoting them as Scotland's answer to Broken Social Scene. Their songs are instrumental melees with several vocal melodies fighting to be heard through the madcap energy, it's modern folk with a post rock spin as shown in the successful recent single 'The Was'. This band is definitely one to watch out for in 2008.
Broken Records have only been a band for just over a year, but have already released their critically acclaimed debut EP, toured with the likes of Editors, Idlewild and Sons and Daughters and played a sold out 750 capacity hometown show! Drowned in Sound have described the band as 'magical, engrossing and wholly enveloping, genuinely and excitingly bursting with commercial potential' which will be on display at the ICA.
The talented 18 year old electro vocal symphonist frYars aka Ben Garret joins the line up with his unique blend of synths, piano and drums creating a wall of sound. The Hampstead local has been compared to everyone from Depeche Mode to Rufus Wainwright and his fiendish computer orchestration is sure to turn heads.
Completing the line up is the brilliantly quirky Polly Scattergood. Starting out on her musical journey at the tender age of 12 she has been crafting and creating her sound ever since. Inspired as a youngster by Bowie, The Flaming Lips and Leonard Cohen to name a few she has been making quite an impression on the indie scene since signing a deal with Mute records (home to Moby and Nick Cave amongst others) last year.
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