Tuesday 22 July 2008

Collective did Latitude

We're back from Latitude in (just about) one piece... A great time was had by all.

We packed up from work at lunchtime on Friday and after a fortifying chip butty, hopped onto the coach.

Latitude 08: Beginning of the end...

Several hours of drinking (us) and getting lost (driver) later, we arrived on site.

Latitude 08: where do we go now?

We lugged all our booty to our luxury camp site, which turned out to be pretty plush indeed - replete with air beds, ready-constructed tents and toilets with soap and toilet roll!

Latitude 08: Yay!

After getting settled in we wandered over the arena, marvelled at the pink sheep, and caught a cool headline set from Franz Ferdinand.

Latitude 08: Field of pink sheep

Saturday brought hangovers for some, which was quelled by morning bacon butties and the big Collective BBQ. A fantastic spread of kebabs, burgers, hot dogs and other chargrilled goodness presided over by Team Australasia, Omar and Greg.

Latitude 08: BBQ time

A magical headline set by Sigur Ros topped off the day's festivities, and the party continued in the Disco Shed into the night.

Latitude 08: disco shed

Sunday brought even more severe hangovers, but they were soothed by a lovely midday set from Joanna Newsom. We then caught the set from our own in-house rockstar Danny's band Ex-Lovers.

Latitude 08: Ex-Lovers

It was at this point, bruised and bedraggled and ready for a bath and bed, that we found out that our coach company had managed to go bust over the weekend. Cue several £300 cabs all the way back to London..

Latitude 08: hitching a ride

Thank you to the directors and everyone else for making it a brilliant weekend!
Many more photos on our Flickr page.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Kiwi chef?? I'm Australian!! ;)

katie said...

haha, sorry Omar, was taken in by Greg's apron.. amended to include credit where it's due.