The official Glade feedback thread

[kai]

Agree completely - you should see how many photos I took of the lighted up trees! They were ace!

However, I'd rather be able to hear my fave DJ's who I came to see at a decent volume than look at some trees when it comes down to it.

[fletcher]

I went to global chavering 2001-2004, simply because i was living in Coventry and it was easy to get too. Glade is a completely different league, so ill have no comparisons made please.

Global is fine if you wanna get trashed for an evening, spend a fortune on lager and snort poppers.

Still, it has a bedrock tent which is its only redeeming feature

[Aussie Raver]

Agree completely - you should see how many photos I took of the lighted up trees! They were ace!

However, I'd rather be able to hear my fave DJ's who I came to see at a decent volume than look at some trees when it comes down to it.

Funny you say that Friday night I ate some awesome hallucinates on top of been my first Glade I was in complete amazement of the wonder that is Glade and spent most of the night walking (stumbling) around starring at stuff like lights and visuals!

Although Saturday and Sunday decided I didn’t want to return to London and have my housemates ask me “who did you see over three days?” with me replying “a lot really sweet looking trees!” so focused on catching more sets and having a stomp.

[WaveyRaveyDavey]

My personal Glade highlight?

The look on Sperges face when I told him how much he sounded like Russell Harty!

[baldmosher]

However, getting my train tickets, debit card, £80 and Youngpersons Railcard stolen from my bag as I slept wasn't the best feeling ever. £112 to get back to Newcastle, totally done me over. They left my phone and my camera, it's like they actually intended to stitch me up? Fucking dicks!

Professional thieves perhaps? Were they all in a wallet? If you get caught with a big pile of phones and cameras you'll look very suspicious, but if you steal wallets, go through them for the valuable stuff and bin the rest you can probably pinch a lot more stuff before your bag starts to look too incriminating.

I wonder if you can get travel insurance that covers you for theft of train tickets? You can certainly get it for overseas holidays to cover you in case you miss your flight home. Cost me £7 to cover my trip to Spain this week.


More random Pros + Cons have come to mind

Pro:
Jim Beam + Baileys (drunk in separate mouthfuls of course) + ace tunes at 4:30-5am on Sunday at InSpiral
Very thorough searches by security. I saw the Police taking statements from what I assume was dealers being caught at the gate. 93 drugs arrests means they're doing their job properly.

Con:
InSpiral taking FOR EVER to serve me coffee at 3:55am on Sunday morning after telling me they had no chai left (no chai left at 4am!??!! are you menthol??)
Not being able to just leave and go to Chai Wallah as they'd already got my cash before making me wait 20+mins for coffees + chocolates
Them telling a customer just as I was getting served my drinks that there would be a "couple of mins wait" for their coffee. shocking.
Not being able to sleep til 9am cos I'd had a really strong coffee

[kai]

I went to global chavering 2001-2004, simply because i was living in Coventry and it was easy to get too. Glade is a completely different league, so ill have no comparisons made please.

Global is fine if you wanna get trashed for an evening, spend a fortune on lager and snort poppers.

Still, it has a bedrock tent which is its only redeeming feature

Believe me i wasn't comparing - there is no comparison - Glade every time for me (even if I did have a great time in Carl Cox's Global tent twatted off my face the year I did Global).

However, I would say that its the quality of the bookings Glade makes, and the genre's represented, that put it ahead of festivals like Global for me first and foremost.

Thats not to say I didn't love the venue used for Glade - is is seriously beautiful and looks amazing how they done it, but thats a secondary reason for Glade getting my vote.

Important, but not as important as the music.

Guess I'm just greedy me - i want it all... everything that Glade has - just with a little more volume after midnight pls....

[rymalco]

What an AMAZING weekend! I have only 2 complaints! Once again the sound in the Overkill was very hit and miss! One evening it would be amazing the next terrible. I left 5 minutes into bong-ra because i could hear people talking over the music! But when the system was pumpin it was great and i just dont understand why the system could not be constant? I understand that the later it gets the quieter the system has to become but i really dont understand the inconsistency of the levels from one night to the next? my only other complain is that special guest Chris Akabusi, once again, did not turn up! keep up the good work guys and hopefully we'll see Chris Akabusi at the Glade next year!!!

AWOOOGA! Kriss didn't turn up cos Ben Regis kept on losing count of the number of white lines on the road on the way there from Penge!

[trashbat]

Glade 2008

Pros:

It's Glade, there's nothing else like it
The numbers were just about right this year
The weather held up
Loads of great music - Jeff Mills pulled off a stunning set, Dreadzone never disappoint, Jim Masters, Utah Saints, Atomic Hooligan, Zen Mechanics, Logic Bomb, too much to mention or even remember.
We encountered no trouble whatsoever
Hot showers in the van field
Access All Areas crew doing a great job

Cons:

What can you say about the sound? Great at times, awful at others. Is Funktion1 the answer to the noise restrictions, or is there another solution?
Watching CJ Bolland in Overkill trying to relive a misspent youth, only to be confronted with a huge image on the screens of Pat Butcher with her norks out.
No Manic Organic food stall this year
Overdoing it and feeling zoned out for the next week.

[fabricated]

We love the Glade:)

[ouzodave]

Please Glade get back to the roots 04, Psytrance-Breaks festival only. Stop these moaning fuckers.

Conversely, if thats what you want then why dont you fuck off to Shamania rather than going to something advertised as an 'electronic music festival'.


If Glade was just psy and breaks it would not be the stand out dance festival in the UK - its the variety and quality of acts on show that make it.


All we're saying is that if your aiming to be a festival that has cross genre appeal and incorporates such things as techno and the Bangface sound then play fair with the people who have come for them and give them the same value for their ticket as everyone else got - i.e. actually being able to hear some of the music you've come to hear at a reasonable volume!



Sorry if that sounds overly critical, as I keep saying Glade 2008 was def one of the best festivals I've ever been too, but end of the day that doesn't mean that there wasn't areas for improvement - otherwise why have feedback???? - and the comment from ouzodave quite pissed me off this morning!

So much for the psy crowd being open minded and lacking in bad attitude!

You think i am a Psy head. Calm down dear/mate it's only a festival and my comment was made in jest. Still most of the stuff coming out of Overkill is well .......I did get to meet Scotch Egg and friends and he was most kind. Gave me a ciggie and said konichiwa. Anyway you contradicted yourself and slagged off Hard House. Check out Tony Devit-The Dawn and i defy anyone to say it will not get yer bollocks rocking.

[roberto]

loved it, everything was great, apart from the sound levels in some of the stages, origin & liquid were blinding, but the breaks & overkill, well, for a function 1 setup it was very poor

[baldmosher]

too much dubstep/minimal/khead music on Sunday, in fact too much dubstep full stop. I know it's the thing these days or whatever, but it's dull after a while. Sorry. Some of us like to 'ave it, even on a Sunday.

Sickboy and Tayo were certainly aving it on Sunday!

[kai]

You think i am a Psy head. Calm down dear/mate it's only a festival and my comment was made in jest. Still most of the stuff coming out of Overkill is well .......I did get to meet Scotch Egg and friends and he was most kind. Gave me a ciggie and said konichiwa. Anyway you contradicted yourself and slagged off Hard House. Check out Tony Devit-The Dawn and i defy anyone to say it will not get yer bollocks rocking.

LOL - as I said at end of my post t'was a rant - bout on by being in a bad mood that morning and reading a post I disliked - apologies....


however....


not too sure where I contradicted myself - can't see any refernce to hard house in the post you quoted...

...and regardless, yes 'The Dawn' is a wicked tune, and as a genre hard house did sound good while it was in its infancy, but that don't stop me dissing it with a passion since the genre as a whole is pish.

99.9% of the tunes are pish, so yeah it has its classics like all genres and the best of everything is good, but when 99.9% of the output within a genre is mind numbing soul destroying pish then the genre imo should be classed as pish no matter how good the tune that inspired it may be.

Sorry, but it had to be said!

[baldmosher]

as a genre hard house did sound good while it was in its infancy

[buzzingtalk]

i think youve both missed the point TBH - just because a festival offers a range of different music, it doesnt mean you have to like it all. i go to the glade 99.9 percent for the music in Overkill, and the occasional set on the glade stage/techno/reggae dub acts and for shit like the first half of Tayos set (the second half went a bit DUBSTEP so i left!) that i woudltn expect to hear, dont know how to catagorise it but was good.

yes im pissed that the psy heads got nice, clear sound for the same price as me but the glade is only 5 years old - to some thats old but think progrsssively. each year there is a new problem that presents itself and an old one that gets fixed. sound, unfortunatley is the bane of a festival but i think the sound was improved on many other stages, just not the one i enjoy. saturday night was much better though and if they can get that right in all stages both nights next year, hopefully we wont have this discussion again

[random_impulse]

thought i posted feedback but can't remember or find it so, here's why my Glade 08 was the time of my life -

OMFG Glade was absolutely fucking amazing!!! Was my first ever festival and.. wow.. whata lotta fun!
Like literally every single moment was perfect for me. I had good expectations of Glade but as soon as i walked past the first tent it was already much more than i'd hoped for.
Probably definitely had the best weekend of my life.
The music was the best of the best, the vibe was absolutely spot on, I like the way the different music scenes come together, was well down when it finished.. Can't WA!T for next year.

Pros:
*Meeting loads of great people
*Waking up to pounding psytrance in the SUN!,
*Food was lush!
*BANGFACE was fucked! really enjoyed that. been well eager and curious since i read about it on this website so i went down there and raved my little heart out. Loved seeing the do whatever you want up on screen that made my night tbh haha! still got my horn
*Headroom's set, was unbelieveable. Probably the best single moment for me was Headroom. Found a pic of me "ravin on the railin's" during 'Will Never End', i'll post some pics soon.
*Kana who closed the Liquid tent put on a blinding performance. even if i was feelin pretty fucked and lying on the middle of the floor during half of it - proper got into the music with my eyes closed
*idspiral loved all the lighting and that in the night, wicked cool vibe down there, Mirror System who closed were reallly good.
*Telling lots of people how unbelieveabley happy i was (besides the mad men) that this was my first festival and i now know i've got this to look forward to for YEARS! .. OH YEAHHH!
*Bumping into a guy 15years older than me with the same 'sex drugs and sausage rolls' t-shirt as me - we looked pretty similar, i think he might have been me in the future. (if you're on here mate, it's a long shot i know, but if you are, can you send me the photo you took of us)
*Running round high fiving everyone,
*Pulling on thursday
*Wearing my brother's umbrella-hat, and looking for my brother's bouncy castle he brought along
*Backward rolling all the way from my tent at the top of campsite to the origin stage,
*Talking to these three guys in the rabit whole on sunday night who were, i dunno, only to be described as 'unlimited randomness', more random and scatty than myself. was fucking hilarious. i joined in and asked if they had any cheese on them - and i swear to God - he pulled out a cheese grater and some cheese.. at that point i went to my tent and had a long think, and sleep haha. kinda rounded the festival off for me lol!
*oh, and nos.

ahh feels good to write all that out.

Cons:
hmm.. NONE
stop whining people.

The only thing i wasn't happy about was going home

Anyway, nice one! see you next time.

[baldmosher]

i asked if they had any cheese on them - and i swear to God - he pulled out a cheese grater and some cheese.. at that point i went to my tent and had a long think, and sleep haha.

brilliant