Latitude Festival 2009 Obelisk Arena Line up

The Pet Shop Boys

80s pop pioneers and 90s electropop dance gurus, Neil & Chris are the most successful recording duo in British history. This millenium has seen them 'Go West End', writing music & lyrics for London theatre productions with similar proficiency - and, of course, continuing to create great music for old and new fans.

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Grace Jones

Seventies and eighties singer known for her unmistakable voice and androgynous look, who had hits with tracks such as Slave To The Rhythm, Do Or Die, Send In The Clowns and Nightclubbing.

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Post punk band led by Australian singer/songwriter Nick Cave. Nick's music is mostly dark, introspective material with a magnetic allure, and emotional surrender to venomous black humour engaging a wide range of themes.

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Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke's presence in the world of music is powerful and indisputable - as the lead singer of Radiohead, there are few bands who won't admit first and foremost taking a large amount of inspiration and influence from the man, whose career has seen a push towards innovation and experimentation, as well as political activism. Yorke's interest in experimentation culminated in his debut solo album, The Eraser, a set of electronic works designed to further Yorke's exploration of music.

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Regina Spektor

Described by Pitchfork Media as 'the most talented representative of New York's antifolk scene', Regina Spektor's music is a combination of minimal piano and instrumentation with lighthearted yet heavily meaningful singing, her songs casting a wry eye at the world with their amiable storytelling quality.

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Doves

One of the UK's best indie rock bands (and former members of 'Sub Sub) whose first two albums have allowed the band to dispense with comparisons and forge their own sound. Mellow guitar-driven indie with irresistable chord arrangements, which sometimes give way to playful dance undercurrents, their Glasto 2002 and 2003 sets have been festival highlights for any lucky enough to hear them.

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Editors

This Birmingham-based quartet have enjoyed a rapid rise to success since they met at college in Staffordshire in 2003. Influenced by iconic bands such as Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen, their 2005 debut album reached no. 2 in the UK, thanks in part to an unrelenting tour schedule. The continued increase in the popularity of their live shows in 2006, along with a top ten single show that the band have the potential to become one of the 'big names' of the decade.

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The Pretenders

Fronted by the the Germaine Greer of rock, Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders took the charts by storm clocking up several hit singles including 'Stop your Sobbing', 'Brass In Pocket and 'Back on the Chain Gang'.

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White Lies

White Lies belt out the kind of massively epic, chart-topping pop The Killers should still be making. Backed by the management team that are responsible for the Kaiser Chiefs.

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Flashguns

'Fuses fast, disjointed tunes with dark, Audenesque lyrics and plaintive vocals' -Steve Lamacq.

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The Chakras

Inspired by bands such as My Bloody Valentine and The Verve, Irish band The Chakras have an ethereal sound with souring melodies and a pounding rhythm section.

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Sound Of Guns

A band from Liverpool doing a distinctly atypically Scouse take on rocknroll. No scallydelic Coralisms here. A melodic undercurrent purrs along amongst the anthemic Killers-like songs, but thrusting guitars are never far away.

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Patrick Wolf

London youngster Patrick Wolf, who makes dark and twisted avant-garde electro-folk. Brimming with emotional passion, sinister story-telling and mythological legend, Wolf's music is weird and wonderful, epic yet simple. 'Patrick Wolf carries a certain magnetism that most artists can only dream of...A truly wonderful performer and, dare I say it, one of the definitive artists of our time.’ – Drowned in Sound.

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The Airborne Toxic Event

A buzz band in the truest sense, Airborne have become the darlings of local radio and press and fixtures on the Silver Lake music scene, garnering comparisons to everyone from Modest Mouse and The Arcade Fire, to the Clash and U2. 'Occasionally you get lucky and stumble across a band at the very moment they ignite the engines and blast off into the heavens. The Airborne Toxic Event just gets louder and richer until the music practically bursts at the seams and spills its steaming guts across the stage.' - NME

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Lisa Hannigan

Described by the New York Times as 'exquisitely ethereal', Hannigan's chance meeting with singer-songwriter Damien Rice led to a long period of collaboration and development that included Rice's critically acclaimed albums O and 9.

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Wild Beasts

Four piece pop group, Wild Beasts are a mix of many different styles with songs that sound as different from each other as possible, with some almost operatic style vocals. They dare to be different, not wanting to be pigeon holed or conform to any norms, which is reflected in their unusual choice of musical arrangements, vocal styles and lyrics.

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Datarock

Norwegian duo Datarock, making highly charged funk, disco and electronica. 'Finally, a band to fall madly in love with' -The Fly Magazine

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Of Montreal

Not Of Montreal at all, but of Georgia, USA, making synthesized pop laced with Beach Boys melodies and Bowie-esque melodrama.'Fueled by love, frosted with joyous psychedelia, and infused with subtle percussive polyrhythms...' - Glorious Noise

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Phoenix (Paris)

Indie pop gets a French twist with this superb quartet. Although more obscure than their hugely successful label mates Air, you may have heard them on the Oscar-winning soundtrack for 'Lost In Translation'. It's quirky, sexy pop with an added dash of Parisian chic.

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The Pet Shop Boys

Grace Jones

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Thom Yorke

Regina Spektor

Doves

Editors

The Pretenders

White Lies

Flashguns

The Chakras

Sound Of Guns

Patrick Wolf

The Airborne Toxic Event

Lisa Hannigan

Wild Beasts

Datarock

Of Montreal

Phoenix (Paris)

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