Vampire Weekend closed the final day of the 5th Latitude Festival last night after a day of performances from artists such as Tom Jones, Mumford & Sons, These New Puritans and the Coral.

Tom Jones had opened the Obelisk Arena earlier in the day with his second performance at Latitude Festival, following his midnight set on Thursday night which kick-started the festival. He performed a series of songs from his new album.

Mumford & Sons took to the Obelisk Arena in the afternoon with a folk set from their debut album ‘Sign No More’ which reached number 11 in the charts when it was released last year. They drew one of the biggest crowds of the weekend with infectious and upbeat songs.

The Temper Trap also joined the lineup in the Obelisk Arena following two years of touring the world, and performed favourites such as ‘Sweet Disposition’ – a song which turned the band into a household name due to its use in many commercials and hit TV series Skins.

Vampire Weekend closed the Obelisk Arena and brought the festival to an end. The New York quartet performed songs from their self-titled debut album and their latest album ‘Contra’ which was released in January. They provided an energetic and committed performance, while singer Ezra Koenig noted it was the bands last performance of the summer, allowing him to not worry about his voice and put his all into shouting and interacting with the crowd.

Word Arena performances came from These New Puritans, and Merseyside group The Coral who performed a mixed set of tracks from their five charting albums.

Amongst the comedians in the Comedy arena was Mark Watson – a comedian famous for having performed shows lasting more than 24 hours. His Latitude set was of a more conventional duration, in which he criticised everything from bottled water claiming to have been filtered by 5000 year old rocks (as opposed to “all those rocks they put up in the sixties”), to the bad language of the children who were at the front of the crowd heckling him. Rufus Hound also performed in the Comedy Arena with a set that – he made explicitly clear – was “not suitable for children”, despite the irony of him currently starring in a children’s television series, and appearing on stage in children’s facepaint.

Latitude is a festival that tries and succeeds in appealing to the masses. Ages ranged from grandparents to prams, while the universal appeal was made even more apparent by the juxtaposition of Crystal Castles being followed by Belle and Sebastian on the second night. The festival is unique in the amount of effort that was clearly put into making the site an enjoyable area, there wasn’t a single area of Henham Park that hadn’t been completely transformed into the Latitude spirit, with trees lit up, screens projected into the middle of the lake, even the sheep were painted.

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Latitude Festival coverage by Tom Thorpe