The award winning Latitude, multi-arts festival, has revealed another tranche of artists for 2014, including Tame Impala and  Bombay Bicycle Club. 

Tame Impala make their long-awaited appearance at the festival this year and Latitude is hugely excited to welcome them for an exclusive UK festival appearance. The band’s psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music is as much informed by The Beatles as it is beat poetry, Turkish prog and English folk. Both their albums Innerspeaker and Lonerism have won the Rolling Stone Australia Album of the Year Award and have gone Gold in their native Australia.

Following this week's release of Bombay Bicycle Club’s hotly anticipated fourth album So Long, See You Tomorrow, we are hugely excited to announce that the Latitude favourites take their step up to the penultimate slot on the Obelisk Arena this year. With the new album currently sitting at Number One in the midweek charts, the band looks set for a monumental 2014 and Latitude is looking forward to sharing it with them.

Also revealed today, ‘rock and soul’ duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, Slowdive who have reformed 20 years after their last concert, Latitude will be the only festival in England to see the band play live this summer. Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit, Scandinavian singer-songwriter Agnes Obel has drawn critical acclaim for two piano-led albums, BBC Sound of 2014 Jungle. 

Also joining the bill is prolific singer-songwriter Damien Jurado, Julia Holter, in an exclusive UK festival appearance, a truly original voice among American singer-songwriters, plus multi-talented multi-instrumentalist, Valerie June, plus Wales-based DJ and producer Koreless, aongsmith East India Youth’s plua  Kwabs’ whose rich baritone belies the youth of this 23 year-old Londoner.

Representing the spirit of punk at this year’s festival will be two of Britain’s most interesting and outspoken new bands. Anarchist sextet Fat White Family and Leeds four piece Eagulls.

In the Spoken Word Arena inimitable Kate Tempest in action with a band this year, the unmistakable face of the UK's spoken word scene Scroobius Pip returns.  World famous grand master of beatboxing Shlomo will be joined by his friends on stage. Also appearing the vocal force that is Reeps One is a vocal force. 

The first artists for the Poetry Arena have been released including PolarBear whose autobiographical rhymes come from the heart of hip-hop and poetry. National treasure and the voice of Radio 4’s Poetry Please, Roger McGough will be performing some of his own poetry at Latitude this year. The national poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke joins Latitude’s spoken word line-up. 

Ben Okri will be reading from his latest collection of poems Wild at this year’s festival, plus Hollie Mcnish, Michael Rosen, George The Poet, Elvis McGonagall, Mark Grist, Luke Kennard and John Baine

Latitude  Festival takes place from 17th - 20th July at Henham Park Estate, Southwold. Suffolk 
Tickets for Latitude 2014 available from here