Belle and Sebastian, Noah and the Whale, Corinne Bailey Rae, Joshua Radin and James were amongst the performers for the second day of Latitude Festival yesterday.

Belle and Sebastian closed the Obelisk Arena with their first performance together since September 2006. The group performed hits from their new album as well as older songs, pausing to interact with the crowd after claiming they’d “been promised a bunch of old people” in contrast to the young crowd that turned up to watch. Singer Stuart Murdoch quipped that he had freshened up by spraying himself with “Old Book Shop” smell deodorant before coming on stage.

Earlier in the day Corinne Bailey Rae performed in the Obelisk Arena to a crowd basking in sunshine. She joined Manchester legends James who came to Latitude fresh from sold-out worldwide tours, and Frank Turner. Canadian duo Crystal Castles also put on a notably frenetic and energetic show with singer Alice Glass spending most of the set in the crowd.

Performances in the Word Arena came from Ohio’s singer-songwriter Joshua Radin who performed a series of laid back acoustic songs, and Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit. Folk revolution and Latitude regulars, Noah and the Whale drew one of the biggest crowds of the day with a set consisting of hits from their debut album ‘Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down’ including hit “5 Years Time”. The XX closed the Word Arena after a successful year where their debut album ‘xx’ was included as number 2 in the NME Best Albums of 2009 list, and number 9 in Rolling Stone’s ‘Best of the Year’ list.

The second day of Latitude also included performances from comics in the Comedy Arena including Ardal O’Hanlon, famous for his role as Dougal in sitcom, Father Ted. O’Hanlon performed a half-hour set, which he claimed due to economic difficulties had been outsourced to be written in India. American actor and stand up comedian Rich Hall also performed in the Comedy Arena including his opinion about the Cadbury Takeover and its likely repercussions, and performed a set complaining about the fact he was no longer sure what was and wasn’t the fault of the US.

Click the link above to see a gallery of performances from the second day of Latitude Festival.

Latitude Festival Coverage by Tom Thorpe