So the lovely people at BBC Radio 6 Music, who are playing a huge part in organising Latitude Festival 2013 (with their own stage to prove it), invited us down to the festival launch event last night - and boy, oh boy does it look exciting.

Top of the bill stand Kraftwerk, fresh out of their Tate Modern audiovisual spectacular, who will be performing the best bits from this in another 3D spectacular in the Obelisk Arena on Saturday night – warmed up into a rave by Hot Chip and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, naturally. And for those who don’t appreciate German electro-pioneers and their renowned ‘support acts’, how does Bloc party, Foals, Maccabees, Steve Mason (who did a lovely set and commendable political rant at the launch), Cat Power, Local Natives, Beach House, alt-J, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, I Am Kloot and more (a new minimalist electronic band) sound?