HOT STUFF: TOM JONES ADDED TO LATITUDE LINE UP
The legendary Welsh singer and unlikely heartthrob Tom Jones has been added to the Latitude festival line up.
Jones will perform at midnight on the first night of the festival (Thursday 15 July) in The Woods.
The silver-haired singer will be performing songs from his new album, Praise and Blame.
This landmark album comes in the singer’s 70th year, a glowing achievement in what has been a ground-breaking, unpredictable roller-coaster of a 45-year career.
The songs from ‘Praise & Blame’ (released 26 July on Island Records), are from a repertoire that includes American traditional, gospel and country, seeing Tom going back to his roots and creating a truly evocative musical work, aided and abetted by producer/musician Ethan Johns.
Tom Jones says of ‘Praise & Blame’: “It’s food for thought, it’s real, it’s natural, and in that sense it’s truly me.”
Bearing in mind his massive voice used to literally break microphones, this performance by Tom Jones will quite possibly be blowing the leaves off the trees when he takes to the secluded and magical stage In The Woods at midnight.
Other acts recently added to the Latitude line up include Devon’s The Quails.
Headline acts at the sold out four-day festival in Suffolk are Belle and Sebastian, Vampire Weekend, The National and Florence and the Machine.
