Audience

Two UK shows for the 'Idolize Yourself' tour

Noel Fielding & Julian Barratt play two warm up gigs

It’s hard to remember the last time the venerable Archdrude played a major British festival – I have a faint memory of some brilliant, mildly alarming show one Reading afternoon in the mid ‘90s. But it’s testimony to Latitude’s cultured charms that Julian Cope – author, ancient historian, Gnostic adventurer and, lest we forget, a tremendous rock star – will be playing the Uncut Arena on Friday July 17.

What do you want to know about the tallest drummer in rock?

Latitude festival have announced the bill for the BBC Radio 4 Arena featuring a selection of the station's best shows, celebrity guests and live broadcasts from Henley Park.

Shows to be broadcast live from Henham Park

Cosmic country rockers swap reverb for raunch

They look, famously, on the cover of last year’s Tonight At The Arizona album, like the wayward off-spring of The Band, with whose songs and music their own colourful excursions into the hinterlands of ‘the old, weird America’, as essayed by Bob and The Band on The Basement Tapes, are frequently compared.

What time is love? Your chance to quiz the man who once burnt a cool million...

Thoughtful, twisting, talent-heavy thriller of child abduction...from Ben Affleck?