Complaints about the sound at Glade 2008

[PaulX]

Be nice to know what saint acid thought about the bangface night.... when he emerges...

as i said before, we talked to him after his set and he was gutted...he said he couldnt even hear himself on the system...

~Gand

Now where would Glade get the extra punters if Bangface pulled out of next years festival???

I'm saying nowt.

[discopete]

One more vote to confirm the crippleing noise restrictions.
Not an outright complaint abut the absolute volume but the amature way it was applied on some of the arenas. The glade stage, Breaksday and Overkill were utterly ruined by a complete lack of musical dynamics. the quiet bits were 93dB, the buildups ramped up from 93 to 93 then the drops went nowhere - utterly unmotivating and unexciting.

Sancho Panza on the other hand seemed not to suffer from this problem, The Rabit Hole was loud enough all weekend and the Origin stage was mostly excellent (there were a few times I'd have liked to have been utterly spanked by it though)

I'd quite like a 50% refund on the ticket price to match the number of acts i'd have liked to enjoy to the number it was possible to do so to.

Having successfully had a conversation with someone at normal speaking volume about what Sunday lunch was going to be in the middle of overkill I retired to camp for my slippers, pipe and a mug of coco.

[lurk]

i thought sound levels were pretty decent wherever i went... admittedly i didn't go into overkill or vapour once, but everywhere else it was always loud enough to dance, you just had to get down the front!

i think the thing that everyone loses sight of is that in this country glade is the best you are going to get, it's not the organisers fault, it's the that of the authorities. the organisers to their best under the circumstances that are dictated to them by others.

everyone talks about going abroad to festivals,but i've never seen a line-up at any european festival that remotely compares to the variety and quality that we are given year after year by glade, and then you have the people and the atmosphere on top of that.

i've got mates from holland, denmark and sweden who come over especially for glade every year, because they haven't found a festival yet that gives them the quality, vibe and general levels of lunacy that we get in this country... which some of us seem to take for granted. they always leave happy and satisfied and come back for more, which just goes to prove that grass isn't always greener on the other side of the channel.

[9preciousGems]

i thought sound levels were pretty decent wherever i went... admittedly i didn't go into overkill or vapour once, but everywhere else it was always loud enough to dance, you just had to get down the front!

i think the thing that everyone loses sight of is that in this country glade is the best you are going to get, it's not the organisers fault, it's the that of the authorities. the organisers to their best under the circumstances that are dictated to them by others.

everyone talks about going abroad to festivals,but i've never seen a line-up at any european festival that remotely compares to the variety and quality that we are given year after year by glade, and then you have the people and the atmosphere on top of that.

i've got mates from holland, denmark and sweden who come over especially for glade every year, because they haven't found a festival yet that gives them the quality, vibe and general levels of lunacy that we get in this country... which some of us seem to take for granted. they always leave happy and satisfied and come back for more, which just goes to prove that grass isn't always greener on the other side of the channel.

[imitationleather]

I thought it was far louder than last year at all times! Maybe that's because I was usually right at the front of the tents?

[digital.atmosphere]

instead of complaining spare a thought for those of us who couldn't make it to glade this year and tell me how autechre, frequency 7, remarc, vex'd, doubtful guest and the bug (did he play with any mcs??) were......

[ogriff]

I thought it was far louder than last year at all times! Maybe that's because I was usually right at the front of the tents?

I found the opposite to be true, in Vapor and breaksday in particular - further back was best, especially just to the side of the sound desk. Stood there for Jeff Mills and could nicely feel the bass in my chest the whole set and had to shout at my mates to be heard...

[Five Alive]

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everyone talks about going abroad to festivals,but i've never seen a line-up at any european festival that remotely compares to the variety and quality that we are given year after year by glade .

I don't know about that ?? The dour festival looks pretty good and is fairly cheap too.
I haven’t been to this myself yet but I do intend to in the future .

A friend from Bristol tells me that the volumes in Europe are much louder too.

Anybody up for it ????

[PaulX]

Just a reminder that there's a poll on whether the Glade should move from Wasing:

should-glade-move-from-wasing-t5889.html

Not that such a move is very likely, since they have four years left on their licence there and setting up at a new location is always going to have its risks, so my betting is that they'll stick with the devil they know. But it's important that the organisers know just how much the sound issue upsets some people who otherwise have no complaints about the festival.

This leaves the other options of:

i) buying off the opposition in the area, as Glastonbury does with villagers in Pilton etc.
ii) lobbying the council to be more lenient on the sound limits.

[Smiffy1001]

It was quieter for a couple of hours here and there...the other 40 odd hours of music were plenty loud enough i thought. Did most of my partying in the day anyway...

No real complaints from me