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We have two tickets and a Wrong Music goody bag for the amazing Wrong Music Bristol bash on 29 November.

Here’s the amazing lineup:

Shitmat (http://www.myspace.com/henryshitmat)
DJ Scotch Egg (http://www.myspace.com/djscotchegg)
Ebola (http://www.myspace.com/ebolawrongmusic)
Mully (http://www.myspace.com/mullymo)
Vexkiddy (http://www.myspace.com/therhomworkshop)
Judith Priest (http://www.myspace.com/judithpriest)

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The first names have been announced for the second Bang Face Weekender. Highlights include acid house legends 808 State, the junglist giants Congo Natty Trinity, drum and bass heroes Noisia, Detroit techno wizard Kevin Saunderson,  rave royalty Altern-8 (back by popular demand) and many more!

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The Glade 2009 dates have been confirmed as 16 to 19 July 2009.

People who went in 2008 can buy discounted early bird tickets for £115 (£10 less than the standard price of £125) or they can leave a £50 deposit and pay the balance in March 2009. Note there are only 1,000 early bird tickets available.

More news when we get it.

As reported on Ravetalk back in August, the Glade organisers held talks in mid-September to discuss the 2009 event.

Here’s a few words about what they’ve decided so far:

A word about next year… Well we’ve been reviewing this year’s event and have decided to get back to a more grassroots free party vibe and we can say now there’s gonna 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…

See this forum thread for more discussion of Glade 2009.

There are already 436 signatures (at the time of writing) on our Turn It Up petition. Not bad going for a small website in its quiet season. There are also 185 on the more ‘official’ Downing Street petition.

That may not be a huge number - but you should see just how small and unrepresentative “the other side” really are. Check out how many signatures this one to keep festivals limited to 80dB got.

Petitions in themselves are not usually enough to win a campaign, even though our cause is just - it is clearly not right that the views of just one NIMBY type can outweigh the views of the majority of residents in the area of a particular event. That is why I believe this is a winnable cause, but only if we keep the pressure up. We need people to write to their MPs, to their local newspapers and so on. Please read the How You Can Help page for pointers on the next stage of the campaign. Thanks.

N>E>D, the organiser of the Glade Festival’s Overkill Stage, is launching his new night in Berlin, where a growing number of artists in the mash-up scene have moved.

Leisure System opens in the city’s spectacular Berghain nightclub, described as “quite possibly the current world capital of techno”, with Surgeon, Rob Hall and Clark topping the bill.

Ned says: “Leisure System is a new adventure in dancefloor dynamics, taking the most influential, uncompromising and talented artists in the club scene today and placing them in the ultimate venue where the title of ‘best soundsystem in Berlin’ will be put to the test. The shared desire is to push the limits further than others.”

http://www.ravetalk.co.uk/soundpetition/

(see also http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/SaveOurSound/)

It’s become the sound of the English summer, as traditional as the crack of leather on willow or the buzz of lawnmowers: the chants of “Turn it up!” as yet another festival is forced to inflict duff sound on its audience.

It’s all down to the increasingly draconian decibel limits set by local councils as part of the licensing restrictions. All it takes is a bit of wind or a reflective cloud for the order to go out to reduce the volume or cut certain frequencies (destroying sound quality) or else the festival is shut down.

This happens because of regulations brought in to protect local residents. But the balance is clearly wrong when the views of just one or two residents can trump those of 100,000 festivalgoers, most of whom are working year-round for that one weekend when they can let their hair down. And when even a major event like Reading Festival had to bow to the mighty god Elfnsafety, we decided it was time to take a stand.

So we’ve started the Turn It Up! petition to try and get the balance restored to something realistic. Please take the trouble to sign up - and please pass the message on to your friends and post the link where you think it will be useful. Thank you.

Oi oi, Hard Crew!

Saint Acid has released details on BFW2, which returns to Camber Sands Holiday Park on the East Sussex coast on 24-26 April 2009.

Tickets will go on sale at 3:03pm (of course) on Saturday 13 September at http://www.bangfaceweekender.com

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