Saturday 19/07/08 Sigur Ros, Elbow, Bill Bailey @ Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Suffolk

Nic Dawson Kelly daybreaks on the Sunrise stage with tracks from his album, The Musician. Like a Devendra Banhart crossed with The Crazy world Of Arthur Brown, Kelly hollering and howling the lyrics - “…everybody notices and nobody feels…” to a rolling acoustic guitar, while a country-rock Banhart-like warble has “…you got money from your lips down to your toes…”, and “…we gonna leave this place and find some melody…”. Followed by Wallis Bird, the Oirish singer-songwriter enjoying comparisons to Fiona Apple with her folky happenings and frenetic, agit-folk, she coaxes “shake yer boobies, let‘s get a love-buzz” to ’The Circle’.  A different chord is struck - psychedelic and discordant, The Exploits of Elaine entertain in Music & Film arena to Sarah Wood’s ‘The Book Of Love’ movie, with a range of Jew’s harp, glockenspiel and pounding drums, and just a dash of Kraut-like experimentation.

You’ll hear more from new band Golden Silvers. With A Ceratin Ratio’s hooks, Joe Strummer-like vocals and rollicking drums (is that Animal of The Muppets Show on drums), harmonies and funky wig-outs are on order at Uncut with fresh, funky fun and quirky vintage keyboards. A latter-day Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel shaping up.

Bill Bailey takes to the Comedy Tent for another year, with musings of Glastonbury calling Amy Winehouse an albino locust and how Jay-Z should have “…taking it English style…” as he raps the theme of Dads Army. Making reference to the evenings headlining act Sigur Ros, Bailey asks the audience if anyone knows what they’re singing about as he thinks they’d be good at singing songs by the worzels, “..oooarrr, oooarrr..”. Bursting into Lionel Ritchie songs, he jokes about how it doesn’t matter what chat up line is used they all sound shit in a West Country accent. Singing a little ditty about EMO self harming kids who work in Starbucks, “…I’ll bleed in your Panini...”, Bailey finishes his set with his song about ducks “…drowning in the hoisin of your lies…”.

Coming in at #18 amongst the 25 entrants to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it’s Sebastien Tellier. Here at Uncut with his dashing electro-pop, “…about to find the milky way…”, and elsewhere “a song about really nice people, but so fat and so ugly” receiving extended wig-outs and strangled guitars, Seb cuts a thrust with “this is a song about my sexuality”, as 70’s Bowie takes on an atmospheric drenching. We at Latitude know - the contest was rigged!!