{"id":701295,"date":"2026-07-20T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701295\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:13:09","slug":"twenty-moments-for-20-years-of-suffolks-latitude-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701295\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty moments for 20 years of Suffolk&#8217;s Latitude Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A lot can change in 20 years. Take Suffolk&#8217;s Latitude Festival, for example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When founder Melvin Benn launched it in 2006, it was a modest affair with a peak daily attendance of just 4,500 and some pink-coloured sheep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fast forward two decades, and it now attracts as many 45,000 festival goers every day \u2013 or 135,000 festival goers over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the years, the likes of Tom Jones, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine and Sting have wowed the Henham Park crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the 20th edition, that job will fall to headliners David Byrne, Teddy Swims, and Lewis Capaldi, with each wanting to have their own special festival moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But what other key moments from the music and arts event&#8217;s 20-year history spring to mind?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot can change in 20 years. Take Suffolk&#8217;s Latitude Festival, for example. When founder Melvin Benn launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}