Revel in your late-night line up

The Sunrise Arena

When darkness falls over Henham Park, the Sunrise Arena becomes the heartbeat of late night Latitude, and this year every night carries a headline act. Friday belongs to Gilles Peterson ft MC Rob G, one of the most thrilling live propositions in British music. Peterson has spent four decades as the ultimate musical evangelist, founder of Brownswood Recordings, creator of Worldwide FM and long-time BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster. Kate Hutchinson delivers a set drawn from a career at the sharpest edge of British music culture: music journalist, Worldwide FM broadcaster, creator of the award-winning Last Bohemians podcast and a DJ.

Saturday is headlined by Dave Seaman, one of the great constants of British dance music. Ahead of him, Boko Yout, whose self-styled Afro Grunge collides punk, funk and alt-rock. Sunday closes with drum and bass royalty, LTJ Bukem, and IZCO + Reeko.

The Alcove

Late Night at The Alcove returns for 2026, Latitude’s late night jazz club in the heart of Henham Park, the antidote to the dancefloor. Friday’s headliner is MADELEINE, the singer, songwriter and producer at the heart of the UK’s nu-jazz and soul scene. Saturday welcomes Knats, the Newcastle quintet whose Geordie Jazz has been one of the most talked-about sounds in British music over the past two years.

In The Woods

There is nowhere quite like the Latitude woods after dark. Radio DJ Abbie McCarthy and Kate Whitaker open the woodland dancefloor on Thursday night, with Friday helmed by FAT PARTI, a back-to-back between DJs from Fat Possum Records and DJs from Partisan Records. Marís also joins the Friday lineup. On Saturday, London DJ Millie Cotton brings the high-energy, nostalgia-flecked club sets, while The Busy Twist closes the woods on Sunday, the London producer and DJ whose sets join the dots between Afro, Latin and UK bass.

The Virgin Radio Mothership

Last year, Fatboy Slim sat at an organ in the Latitude woods and created one of those moments that define a festival generation. This year, that same hallowed spot in the trees becomes home to something brand new. The Virgin Radio Mothership is a spectacular late night arena built from the ground up for Latitude’s twentieth edition, and its full programme is now locked in. Goldierocks takes Friday, bringing the fearless, floor-filling energy that has made her one of the most exciting DJs and broadcasters of her generation. Saturday belongs to Huey Morgan, the charismatic Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman who lit up BBC Radio 6 Music for 17 years before launching The Huey Show on Virgin Radio UK. And as our 20th anniversary weekend draws to its final, most glorious hours, the Virgin Radio Latitude Closing Party takes over on Sunday night. The Virgin Radio DJs, the woods, one last time. Twenty years of Latitude going out in style.

Comedy & Theatre

Latitude’s after dark spirit runs deep into the arts programme, where the line between comedy, theatre and performance dissolves as the night draws in. Christopher Brett Bailey performs I Saw Satan at the 711, the gonzo monologue adapted from his cult novella. Frankie Thompson brings Horrible Things: the acclaimed clown lip-syncs her way through a dizzying collage of found footage, a formal presentation of horrible things both real and conceptual. David Elms arrives with his cult hit David Elms Describes A Room, where together with his audience, the veteran improviser builds an imaginary room object by object before stepping inside it.

The late night stand-up bill is just as strong. Nick Doody has become one of the sharpest stand-ups and writers in British comedy, with credits including Have I Got News for You, and Mock the Week. Spencer Jones, twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, brings his gloriously madcap world of props, loops and visual gags. Luke McQueen is alternative comedy’s great agent of chaos. Norfolk’s Rachel Porter joins the bill with her gleefully absurd solo comedy. Dom McGovern, Eve Delaney and Jamie D’Souza complete the late-night comedy line up.

John-Luke Robert returns to Latitude with an absurd, talky meditation on mortality, human complexity, which will also somehow be a crowd-pleasing, brazen pivot to the mainstream. There’ll be poems, too, which is just what you want at this time of night in a field.

Already announced across our late-night Theatre programme includes Lucy McCormick’s Lucy & Friends, From Lips to the Moon, a screening of David Byrne’s American Utopia, Wright & Grainger, and An Uncanny Hour with Reece Shearsmith & Robin Ince.

Late Night Club Nights

After dark, TK Maxx presents The Comedy Arena becomes a buzzing after-hours playground as the UK’s best club nights take centre stage. On Friday, Byrne’s Night, the far-from-ordinary tribute to David Byrne, takes centre stage with a roving cast of performers right after the man himself headlines the Obelisk Arena. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ABBA After Midnight offers a full-throttle tribute to pop’s most glittering icons, Massaoke leads the sing-along charge with live band Rockstar Weekend powering through anthems from across the decades, and pop sensation Guilty Pleasures invites festival goers to surrender to the joy of feel-good floor-fillers.

Elsewhere, the legendary Disco Shed sets up shop in the Arena, fusing garden party charm with underground club energy in a one-of-a-kind micro-venue all weekend long.