Longitude festival

Now, this might turn out to be a right unnecessary diversion.

In a nutshell we want to be a Latitude up north. Latitude is a high quality middle class UK festival in Suffolk. Suffolk is 'handy' for Londoners but not if you live up here.

Thing is, it appears at least, that there is no festival called Longitude. We've just registered longitudefestival.com and .co.uk which I was surprised where free. Whether these two domains are doomed to follow my other failed domain projects time will tell.

I registered www.mcshag.com hoping for a relaxation of the prostitution laws, and supposing that there would be a market on the high street for a standardised sexual experience - brothel etique varies enormously (I've heard). Not that well thought through, but it did bring new meaning to 'supersize me' :| Another, not quite so mental but still unrealised is www.pubsalad.com, let you explore that unfinished site for yourself. I have doomed plans for a site dedicated to the spiritual side of mountain biking called 'god rides a hardtail' or similar as if I've not got enough to be doing.

On the face of it this Longitude thing is a cynical move, a cheap marketing ploy which piggy backs on someone else's hard work. It may well be taken this way UNLESS the quality of our festival matches or exceeds that of Latitude. We too have an obelisk, a lake and some woods.

It's not quite as stupid an idea as it first seems (UPDATE - no, it is). We need to do some digging into potential trade mark complications, but a google search on longitude festival brings up nothing. Not sure what festival republic are going to make of it. Horse head in the bed.