give all you people a few months to choose your teams. you'll need to pick:

- three mainstage headliners - 2 points will be awarded for each correct guess in this category
- two 'arts' (ie poetry, literature, theatre, comedy, film, cabaret) acts that you think will appear - 2 points will be awarded for each correct guess in this category
- 5 other musical acts from anywhere on the bill - 1 point will be awarded for each correct guess in this category
- the 'sunday spot' (ie the one Thom Yorke and Joanna Newsom have played so far) - 5 points will be awarded for a correct guess in this category.

giving a maximum total of twenty points for anyone lucky to have their picks spot on, though there will probably be some 'latitude sweepstakes' (like last year's "Will Lightspeed Champion play any of his own songs? etc) points available in July.

When entering please specify which acts are in which category. I propose using this form to make sure you make no mistakes

Obelisk Headliners

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Other Music

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Arts Acts

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Sunday Midday

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Entry will close on the 1st March 2010, which will be a mere 2 or so weeks until the first batch of announcements will be announced. You may tweak your team as much as possible until then. the winner will get fun times (ooh err) and smiles.



Good luck everyone!

Surprised no one has had a go at this yet. As Grouchland says, we can keep changing it up until March - and I definitely will.

Anyway, My initial team:

Obelisk Headliners
Massive Attack
Flaming Lips
PJ Harvey

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Other Music
Hot Chip
The Fall
Los Camp
The Hold Steady
Field Music

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Arts Acts
Fancy Chance
Lucy Porter
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Sunday Midday
Sufjan Stevens
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It will change - as the rumours pour in. Come one, chaps, have a go: Grouchland's gone to a lot of trouble.

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Obelisk Headliners

-  Massive Attack
-  Belle and Sebastian
-  Pixies
Other Music

- MGMT
- Hot Chip
- Vampire Weekend
- Ellie Goulding
- Muchuu

Arts Acts

- Marcus Brigstocke and his Early Edition
- That Mogwai film thing

Sunday Midday - Animal Collective

Surprised no one has had a go at this yet.

this is because you have no idea how much cash end up being lost once the real bad boys come back...hundres of pounds i heard last year...several

Obelisk Headliners

- Elbow
- Biffy Clyro
- Bjork

Other Music

- Animal Collective
- Empire of the Sun
- Bombay Bicycle Club
- The Cheek
- Dinosaur Pileup

Arts Acts

- Michael Mcintyre
- Simon Armitidge

Sunday Midday

- Bryan Wilson

Obelisk Headliners - Elbow - Biffy Clyro - Bjork Other Music - Animal Collective - Empire of the Sun - Bombay Bicycle Club - The Cheek - Dinosaur Pileup Arts Acts - Michael Mcintyre - Simon Armitidge Sunday Midday - Brian Wilson

Good one Geez.

Okay, here's my early, to be adjusted list...

Obelisk Headliners

- Elbow
- Massive Attack
- Pixies

Other Music

- Vampire Weekend
- Florence and the Machine
- Mumford and Sons
- New Young Pony Club
- Hot Chip

Arts Acts

- Michael McIntyre
- Simon Amstell

Sunday Midday

- Julian Casablancas

Gonna put a ban on Robin Ince etc who play every year, by the way. Also, if you choose a band to headline but they play elsewhere, you'll get just 1 point for them. However, if you choose a band to play elsewhere and they headline, you will still get only 1 point for them. Same for Sunday noon dude.

Obelisk Headliners

- Ting Tings
- Elbow
- Biffy Clyro

Other Music

- Sparks
- Paulo Nutini
- The Big Pink
- Friendly Fires
- Ladytron

Arts Acts

- Russell Howard
- Shlomo

Sunday Midday

- James

Obelisk Headliners

- Pixies
- Elbow EDIT: I NOW GUESS MASSIVE ATTACK.
- Goldfrapp

Other Music
 
- Public Image Ltd
- The Fall EDIT: I NOW GUESS TEENAGE FANCLUB
- Midlake
- Brett Anderson
- Joss Stone

Arts Acts

- Daniel Kitson
- Francis Wheen
- David Mitchell EDIT: I NOW GUESS MARK KERMODE 


Sunday Midday

- Luke Haines EDIT: I NOW GUESS NOEL GALLAGHER

ORIGINAL: Nico Rijnders
Other Music
- Joss Stone

 
Oh God no, please no....

ORIGINAL: Giddy

ORIGINAL: Nico Rijnders
Other Music
- Joss Stone

Oh God no, please no....

 
I should make it clear that this is a (wild, wild card) prediction, not a request! Her career seems to be nose diving and I can see her management thinking that a few good natured afternoon festival sunshine slots are just the thing to remind the dullard public who that colourful-legginged hippy chick with the loud voice (and bog-standard "funky" live band) was.
 
I'll be at Robin Ince for that one, anyway.

Robin Ince - King of easy target comedy.
LOLZ AT CHRISTIANITY GUYZ

I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go...

Obelisk Headliners

- Roxy Music
- Gorillaz
- The Flaming Lips

Other Music

- Hot Chip
- Islet
- Kate Nash
- Ellie Goulding
- Frankie & The Heartstrings

Arts Acts

- Richard Dawkins
- Daniel Kitson

Sunday Midday

- Sufjan Stevens

I could definately see Biffy Headlining this year, with 5 albums under their belt, sing along classics and the "arty" element needed for Latitude, they'd fit perfectly.
The next single "Many of Horror" will probably be the "Chasing Cars" of this year too, unfortunately.

To whom it may concern,

I know this is a predictions rather than a request thread, but Mr Moochoo formally (and solemnly) requests - though conscious of Freud's inevitable ire - that Biffy Clyro do not headline (or even come within a five-mile radius of) Latitude Festival.

Thanks for reading.

strangely, do wish to know what this biffy group sound like...sorry no strike that, am more than happy knowing the lyrics of a load of george formby songs, thankyou very much...its turned out nice again, governer

ORIGINAL: Moochoo

To whom it may concern,

I know this is a predictions rather than a request thread, but Mr Moochoo formally (and solemnly) requests - though conscious of Freud's inevitable ire - that Biffy Clyro do not headline (or even come within a five-mile radius of) Latitude Festival.

Thanks for reading.

Good one, have fun in the dullard middle of the road Bad Seeds.

Okay, we're not going to agree on this, but in what way do you consider Biffy to have the "arty" element required for Latitude? I'm genuinely ignorant of that.

They do have their press supporters: the NME (for what that's worth) seem to like them.