Making their only UK festival appearance in 2009, the mighty Underworld will be one of the headliners at Glade Festival this year. Karl Hyde and Rick Smith are still pushing sonic boundaries after nearly two decades of being at the forefront of electronic dance music and have an extraordinary ability to fuse together elements of techno, dub, trance, drum ’n’ bass, ambient house and even blues. They complement and contrast not only sounds but emotions too, tying them together with Hyde’s frequently prescient, often opaque but always strikingly poetic lyrics. They are incredible live and are the perfect act to play the crescendo of the Glade Festival 2009.
The other big news is that underground dance dons BLOC (curators of BLOC Weekend) are set to host the Vapor Stage, the main late night tent, at this year’s Glade Festival. Excited by the prospect of banging loud late night sound levels thanks to Glade’s new venue in the Winchester countryside, BLOC have teamed up with Glade Festival to throw their summer party in the UK. Expect the biggest names in world techno and the cream of the UK underground dance.
Glade’s change of venue also means the music will be running much later, with both the big production stages kicking it ‘till early morning as well as an increased emphasis on smaller, more intimate venues also running late, giving Glade Festival its unique free party feeling that first made it famous at Glastonbury.
A new venue is always a chance to explore new directions creatively and, subsequently, there will be several new areas at this year’s Glade Festival. A post apocalypse theme pervades the new Carmageddon area, including multiple venues hosted by Breaksday, Overkill, Nu-Skool Breaks, Fabric dubsteppers Dublime and Cool & Deadly and Kiss FM’s Jay Cunning. The area will feature mind bending site art from Nevada’s Burning Man Festival, the scrap yard regeneration creations of the Mutoid Waste Companyand the twisted cabaret of the Interstella Circus.
Another new creation for this year, the Avalon Field is conceived as a festival within a festival and is dedicated to a way of life and attitude to living, as much as partying. This international alternative and psychedelic scene was born in the late 60s and is now alive and well in places as far apart as Brazil, Japan, California and India. And in Avalon it has its UK home at the Glade Festival. You’ll find an area where music, art and all forms of expression thrive and connect at what is undoubtedly the UK’s highpoint of the Psytrance movement.
Quite simply, the Glade Festival is already shaping up to be THE festival of the summer, run by festival people for likeminded people who love life, music, freedom, art and alternative culture. For more info visit the new website.
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