Glade Electronic Dance Music Festival
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| Country and Region | United Kingdom — England |
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| Type of Festival | Dance, Music |
| Location of Festival | Newbury, Berkshire, England UK |
| Festival Description | A word about 2009… Well we’ve been reviewing this years event and have decided to get back to a more grass roots free party vibe and we can say now there’s going to be some pretty radical changes. A move away from big tents with more open-air venues, more randomness, wrongness and loveliness, kicking late night tented vibes, longer sets from quality purveyors, more art and participation and loads of other stuff besides. We will announce the date soon… |
| Festival Dates | July 2009 |
| Festival Links | http://www.gladefestival.com/ |
Festival Story:
The team have been working round the clock to ensure that Glade remains a friendly, awe-inspiring wonderland to party in. Amazing new site art, circus performances, stage designs and décor, lights and lasers will make this year a visceral audio visual assault of the senses. As well as this there have been significant improvements elsewhere with extended camping areas, increased disabled access and Funktion 1 sound fields in all the main tents running after midnight; The result of this is that outside there is comparatively a lot less noise and the sound inside is clear, constant and loud… It’s killer.
Having sold out every year so far we’re not expecting tickets to hang around very long; especially when you bear in mind that there are less tickets available than last year. So log onto
http://www.gladefestival.com/ now where there’s a load more information and instructions as to how to get tickets.
‘We, the promoters of the Glade, are all first generation ravers… so we are keeping that unity vibe alive by keeping it real and not selling it out to commercialism; we don’t go for corporate sponsorship because we believe that’s exactly the sort of thing people are looking to get a break from for a weekend… They want to be in the beautiful reality bubble that is a good festival… and that’s what the Glade is about ultimately… a place to come and express yourself freely, connect with like minded people, dance and have blindingly good time…’
—Nick Ladd, Glade Festival
Festival Events:
Line-up 2008:
- Origin Stage
- Ace Ventura
- Allaby
- Ans
- Antix
- Aphid Moon
- Beatnik
- Dickster
- Dimitri Dkn
- Edoardo
- Emok
- Fearsome Engine
- First Stone
- Fiord
- Flip Flop
- Headroom
- Laughing Buddha
- Logic Bomb
- Perfect Stranger
- Pogo
- Protoculture
- Regan
- Slack Baba
- Zen Mechanics
- Liquid Stage
- Abakus
- Agent Smith
- Aliji
- Atomic Drop
- Avalon
- Bonze
- Braincell
- Capsula
- Far Too Loud
- Freshold
- Fromem Ory
- Hamish
- Hemi Sync
- ILS
- Ital Tek
- Jeremy
- Jon Kenobi
- Kana
- Kuba
- Liquid Ross vs Natzan
- Module
- Mood Deluxe
- Orchid Star
- Paul Taylor
- Pitch Black
- Rex
- Sattyananda
- Screenager
- Simon Pieman
- Sketchy Pimps
- Subsource
- Tom Fu
- Warp Technique
- Whiplash
- Yab Yum
- Zak
- Zubzub
Renegade Dance Music Stage 2008:
- Features psy trance, breaks, techno, electronics and house. The promoters involved in the Glade include Breaksday, Nano Records, Sancho Panza, Overkill, Liquid Connective and Inspiral and you’ll also find input from many incredible people on all sorts of levels so that the music is just one of the incredible ingredients in making the Glade a truly spectacular music festival.
Sancho Panza Tent 2008—hosted by Very Wrong Indeed:
- Mr C
- Mike Monday
- Spektre Live
- Frenchy
- Josh Tweek
- Jimmy K Tel
- Matt Brown
- Lee Burridge
- Big Daddy
- DJ Garth (San Francisco)
- Earl Gateshead
- Eren
- Freddy Love
- Matt Braddock
- Anthony Cox
Full program 2008:
- Visit the festival web site at
http://www.gladefestival.com/music/
Practical Info:
Tickets:
- Available online at
- Glade Festival
http://www.gladefestival.com - G Tickets
http://www.gtickets.co.uk - Access All Areas Network
http://www.accessallareas.org
- Glade Festival
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