Elliphant: Festivals are "beautiful and a bit crazy" • News • DIY Magazine

Henham Park’s Latitude Festival has been announcing a stream of new names for its 2014 bill, joining headliners Two Door Cinema Club, Damon Albarn and The Black Keys. Acts new to the July weekender include Ásgeir and Augustines on the BBC Radio 6 Music stage, Young Fathers, Future Islands and James Holden in the iArena, Childhood and D. D Dumbo on the Lake Stage, and Elliphant in The Alcove.

“I’ve done some festivals before,” reveals Ellinor Olovsdotter, the Swedish artist behind the Elliphant guise, “and it’s usually beautiful and a bit crazy because there are no real soundchecks and things like that. [There can be] bad weather… to good weather… but we remember where we come from at festivals. It’s like tribe life. I love it. The audience is brilliant because they let go of all that stiffness when they’re around all this sweaty happy energy so, at least for Elliphant, it’s the perfect crowd.”

Having just completed a handful of tour dates in the US alongside M.I.A (“It was the first time I saw M.I.A perform and I got to share the stage with her. I was super inspired!”) after releasing her ‘Loves Like You Love It’ EP earlier this year, Olovsdotter’s not just looking ahead to her Latitude slot; she’s also hard at work on a full-length proper. “I’m making my album, trying to bring my dreams to life and collect my creative crew. I want my Phants [Elliphant fans, geddit? - Ed] to be a part of this and I need good ways to interact with them. I want to be a canal for all my creative people out there. That’s the plan.”

Taken from the June issue of DIY, out now. DIY is an official media partner at this year’s Latitude.

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