The official Glade feedback thread

[jonno212]

PROS:

Atmosphere by all was vitually perfect...by the festival goers that is!
Such a massive benefit from having less people there with camping aswell
Loos were good this time
set times were much better this year too! The special bonus in that shitmat played unexpectedly WHICH WAS F*CKING SICK!!!!! HEHE... I well thought he was doing another festival in belgium or summit but i aint complaining about it hehe!

CONS:

Line up could have been better IMO...ok yeah Pendulum attracted a big crowd but for their prices they could have had 4/5 other top acts easily (i only went to see 1 of their songs and they still didn't impress me much)... I would have preffered pendulum not to play ANY other DnB/breakcore/jungle/techno artist to go on in there slot instead coz you could tell the crowd wanted MORE!!!!! or even noisia being on that slot instead or summit? That would have been better than the jam packed main stage!

Sound levels were absolutely shocking!!! Friday overkill was worst than Global Gathering's sound last year (and thats saying summit)... Saturday was better but i think thats mainly because we started a "turn it up" chant during Donna Summer's/ Shitmats set which everyone joined in on!!! Friday really was shocking though! I spent most the time in the overkill for BANGFACE (obviously) and i could talk to pretty much everyone at a normal level which meant i wasn't dancing much!!! It was such a shame coz Friday was sposed to be the mental night to go mad on and i couldn't coz you barely hear the music!!! The only reason people settled for it was the promise that it would be much better on the saturday! Thats why i think EVERYONE chanted "turn it up" on the sat too coz i don't think people would have stood for another quiet night in that tent!!!

Water points were poor!!! On the map it clearly showed 3/4 water points around the overkill and breaksday stages! me and a friend went walking to find them on the thursday and couldn't see them! I lodged a complaint to one of the stewards...coz it was one of them things that COULD have been reftified very easily (and fairplay to him he did tell his seniors) But nothing was done about it after that!!!! I'm starting to think it was a ploy to make more money on the bars with water!!! (which btw they didn't need coz i had mates working in the bars and said they were taking a good 20k+ a day...which is good in any bar!!!)

AND the security!!!! WTF was up with the HARSH searching???? My Mate got busted on the thursday for what they found on him (which was all for personal use i might add) and they were right c*nts about it!!! he ended up spending thursday night in a f*cking police cell and they said he couldnt come in the festival!!! SO not needed!!! when he got out i got him back in anyway coz he still had his fully paid ticket that they didnt bother to take away so it worked out in the end!!!

Overall it was a sick weekend and i had a hell of a good time but i felt like it was missing something because the lack of heavy pumping bass that i could get my teeth into!!! By the sunday i didn't actually feel like i had danced that much at all!!! Next year i think they should use the kind of money the used to attract pendulum to pay off some of the locals (who normally complain) into letting friday and saturday night being LOUDER!!! coz lets face it, whats the difference with a club playing loud music until 4AM??? they're both licensed to go on that late! ANDpeople live close to them aswell ya know? I say f*ck the locals... its one weekend of the whole bloody year that has almost been ruined thanks to them!!! and its something i'm going to think long and hard about going to next year!!!... I can get bangface every month and so why i should i pay over a hundred quid to go in a tent that i can talk in!!! i can do that in my garden with a hi fi!

Apart from that it was bo!

[G-BO]

pros

the weather
the friendliness of all chaps and ladies i met
the tastiness of the food
the full on party vibe in the overkill which was were i stayed 95% of the time, daedelus, current vaue, autechre, scotch egg, luke's anger, vex'd, bangface, chris clark's extra special finishing set! all artsists were nicely overawed by a brilliantly receptive crowd, still giving me the tingles
Jeff Mills playing the set that he does best, hard, banging creepy, intellegently played techno set, the noise during his set was awesome!
how close we were picthed near the overkill was awesome!
having the most hassle free glade yet!

cons

the sound on friday and a bit of saturday in the overkill, if its too close to teh neighbours it needs moved, no point having a six stack funktion1 if it cant be let loose
the price of the food, but thats to be expected i suppose


im really finding it hard to match the ize of the pros and cons list, but the sound is important!....i got on wih it, it didnt come close to ruining my weekend, but whats the point in throwing these things on and turning it down in the afternoon....

[tomska]

Gotta say, blinding festival - back to the spirit of the first two years of Glade and that's very welcome - we'll be there again next year for sure, and with more peeps. Cracking vibe. Bestival is going to have to be something else to top that as the best party of the year.

So, Highlights:

Jeff Mills
Friction - ripping: more d&B please!
Dr Meaker - my new favourite band. What a gem of a discovery.
Iration Steppas
Dreadzone - always good value.
Plus whoever the breaks/scratch dj was in the Pussy Parlure last on saturday.

Pro's

The medical staff - my mate had a fit and they were brilliant. Thanks guys.
The people - thank you all for being so fluffy (tent-thieves and excessive security excepted)
The toilets - best ever. Better than the Big Chill, and they're lavender-sniffing pansies.
The food - plenty of veggie options & tasty at that. A good balance.
The size - space around the tents, no chavs, friendly vibe. That's the way to go. Scaling down the music tents next year will sort out the empty space problem. Small is beautiful.
The site - don't be dissing Wasing. It's amazing to have the festy there.
Aspalls - god that stuff's good. Please get it in again next year.

Con's

Pendulum - drum & bass with crayons. Lame.
Vocals on Glade Stage - couldn't hear a word. What's the deal? I actually appreciated it for Friction, but with Dub Pistols and Dreadzone vocals are an integral part of the act. The sound engineers need a lesson in mixing mics (I'll be happy to provide - got years of live engineering experience... ). They seemed to get the picture about halfway through the Orb's set, but it was a bit late by then.

Other than that, I have to say I thought the sound was actually OK, despite all the complaints on here - louder than last year anyway. And I'm happy for the site to be less beautifully decorated if it keeps it small - the vibe is all-important and the site is gorgeous anyway.

BIG UP YOURSELVES GLADE CREW & SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.

[itsmarkanddave]

Whole weekend was the best we've had.

Pro's
Less people and more camping space
Weather - could sit down anywhere and chill this year as opposed to last year, also wasn't too hot to dance for hours!
Friendly people who camped near us
Friendly people we met throughout the whole weekend
Securtiy - Not too intrusive - they had a job to do and I think they did it well.
Toliets - very clean at all times.
I know some people have commented on the noise levels, we didn't have a problem with it al all.

Con's
Our friend Joe couldn't come (He'd have loved it!)
It had to end!

See you all next year!

[Beatmonkey]

The medical staff - my mate had a fit and they were brilliant. Thanks guys.

He wasn't called mark and camping a bit up from the rabbit hole was he? Ended up with a fucked up eye from the fit incident? If so I camped near him last year and this year, was good to see him again, quality geezer

[tomska]

The medical staff - my mate had a fit and they were brilliant. Thanks guys.

He wasn't called mark and camping a bit up from the rabbit hole was he? Ended up with a fucked up eye from the fit incident? If so I camped near him last year and this year, was good to see him again, quality geezer

He was indeed and he is indeed - known him for years and years (we're local boys). Cheers mate.

[Beatmonkey]

The medical staff - my mate had a fit and they were brilliant. Thanks guys.

He wasn't called mark and camping a bit up from the rabbit hole was he? Ended up with a fucked up eye from the fit incident? If so I camped near him last year and this year, was good to see him again, quality geezer

He was indeed and he is indeed - known him for years and years (we're local boys). Cheers mate.

Well you probably camped next to me in 07 as well. I'm one of the ones who camped in the big white tent with no groundsheet and babbled crap all weekend

[Aussie Raver]

First timers point of view………. F*cking ace!!!

I have been too many festivals from many genres (rock, dance, folk, art…..) in five different countries and four continents (North and South America, Europe and Oceania) and I can proudly say Glade tied as the best one I have ever been too along with the Woodford Festival in Australia 2006.

I could go on and on about how great Glade was but a lot of what I would say has already been listed so I’ll just mention a few things and my one and only complaint.

Things I loved: Layout, having the camping field and festival field as one was what I think helps make it special please don’t change this Glade had a right laugh at the people camping less then 100m from the breaks tent did you get any sleep?
Layout I thought was really well designed.
A good mix of market stalls and allowing them all to play their own music (except for the legal high store near Origin stage they played shit all weekend).
Been able to start the day with some live music each day with a fat one rolled up and cold beer really got me in the mood and warmed me up for a hard day of stomping.
Quality of acts, don’t think there was a single point when I couldn’t find something I liked. Also got introduced to a lot of new music I would of never heard before (Overkill).
Waking everyone up camping around me on Sunday with free substances and then telling them the Sunday had been renamed "finish all your stash before the festival ends day!"
The PEOPLE!!

Only con: Please pick up you f*cking empty canisters and balloons!!!! On the Monday I was talking to my mate it was both our first Glade and both thought it was the best festival we had ever been to but when you looked around the field it was like a war zone with canisters everywhere I got nothing against using nos as I did myself but is it really that hard to put them in a bin, bag or pocket! It really was a big turn off having a barefoot stomp in the sun at the Origin stage only to stand on an empty canister every few seconds.

Other then that i'll be back next year for my second Glade and keep coming until I find something else as good (if thats even possible)

[alboot]

i had an awesome time, all in all one of my favorite glades, must have been very jammy with the music casue everything i heard was fine. i did miss hundreds of music mind cause i had to sleep so much from being sick (actually sick not overindulged sick) but i felt like the cutting down on the numbers brought the old atmosphere back. defo stick to that number of folk again next year in my opinion.

apart from that well done all.

oh and clark was sick on the sunday night.

[Daft_Funk]

- the rank smell in the main dance tent. Like sour milk, or something worse. Yuk!

The smell you speak of was just dying/rotten/wet grass mate

[Exulus]

Right im going to attempt to pour my feedback on here now...as much as i can.

I freaking loved it! Best one yet i reckon...

Pros:
Excellent camp crew this year, got to know loads of people and shitmat even came and said hi for a while.
Spongey ground - felt like walking on cake in some areas!
Outside stage sound - dont understand why people were complaining about delays, yes it sounds shit around the edge but you cant help that, thats physics. once you move to the centre it sounds full and juicy.
Id/in spiral looked really good this year...even if the lights started to spaz out late on sunday night.
places to sit down and relax and not boil!
having a race with a giant snail on the friday night and losing terribly outside pussy parlour
really happy amazing people that i wish were everywhere in real life and not just condensed into a small field for a weekend
going to the pub for 5 hours on monday night with some people we met/camped with at glade and continuing glade until the small hours of tuesday
opus sound in liquid - amazing! get those instead of f1 please glade (at least it sounded really good for psy)
Nice loo's
The most amazing chai tea ever at inspiral - cant believe i havent bought any before from there - really gloopy and nice, will definitely be tanking that next year.

Cons:
Not a lot, maybe the sound was a bit quiet for remarc/bong-ra but i cant really remember, sound was fine really for me.
kj-sawka being completely clouded by smoke - surely he's a very visual act and although the drum and bass sounded good i couldnt appreciate it as much without seeing him actually playing it!
ordering a ham salad baguette and then them telling me they had no lettuce...that was a hard one to eat
missing the huge inflatable horn/bone thing thats usually there and people going "oo...ooo....OOOH WEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYY!!" as it inflates after being blown over by the wind



more if i can remember! Absolutely loved it though...and i really wanted to buy a space hopper on friday as i remember seeing one at a stall..damn wish i did that...would be proper fun to bound around the site on it! next year!

[timbo757575]

The music levels were pretty uneven on the Origin stage and low on most stages friday night in Liquid... But apart from that the sound didnt seem chronic, mind you i didnt' spend that much time in Breaksday or Overkill....

But highlights..
Fearsome Engine
No rain or mud and lots of nice dry grass
Less people more space
Mood Deluxe
ID Spiral trying to extend it Sunday night
Laughing Buddha, Zen Mechanics and most of Origin saturday..
Co-campers and chilling out on monday not feeling rushed to leave...

Downpoints
Those horrible power cut outs on Origin and that motorbike sfx
Lack of water in main area
Security walking around in large groups with attitude
Price of booze

But it was the best Glade I've been to so far (2005 and 2007 before) and will definately be back in 09!!!!!.... Cheers to all involved..

[shakyjane]

the toilets were nice this year

[Sperge]

the toilets were nice this year

But not as nice as 2006, they did an amazing job with them that year.

[ellementre]

Well for me being my first glade festival i really enjoyed it! I thought it was really organised in everyway, and after going to festivals for the last ten years plus for me it was nice not to have the ringing ear symdrome at the end of the night, lots of room to camp in, and by far the best dance line-up i have every come across at a festival. I heard a girl get robbed on saturday morning but he didn't get that far before he was caught which but a smile on my face, i also liked the fact that it felt like we were left to get on with it, which you don't get very often anymore. My little crew didn't sleep from 06.00 on friday until 07.00 on sunday morning there was always something going on, which there should be! So a massive shout of respect to all that attended and enjoyed, a big thanks to the glade staff for making me feel really relaxed and welcome and for getting the vibe right, it felt like a festival should do! But for me Slam live kicked the arse out of everything!! Thanks.

[blutac]

all in all a really good festival, didn't enjoy it quite as mcuh as the first 3 years but only because I had work on friday evening and monday morning...

guess it can't hurt to say it one more time - sound levels especially in overkill were a bit of a joke except for a few sets. Especially let down Bassclef who put on an awesome set which was played at a stupidly low level. Weird though how Tayo's set was so loud, and Clarks was pretty loud as well. Would I be right in saying overkill and breaks were taking it in turns playing loud music. Seemed like the big headliners sets were loud, while whoever was in tthe other tent at the time was quiet.

Also another person pissed off at Joe Bananas, the first 2 years I remember spending quite a lot of time sitting outside littlebig (as were a lot of people), while still listening to the music. A combo of quiet sound and shitty joes meant if you were outside the tent you couldnt hear the music.

Best sets - Clark, Iration Steppas, Wisp
Biggest letdown - everyone at bangface till Remarc, although I guess this could have been somethign to do with the sound levels.. where was ceephax nd luke vibert, glade isnt glade without them

[saladfingaz]

Well this was my first Glade this year, and overall i can easily say it was the best festival i've ever been too =]

Pro's:

The atmosphere! Everyone was just so friendly and up for it, you could just sit down and start chatting to anyone, loved it.
Granny's Gaff, fucking hilarious, especially the shennanigans we witnessed late on Sunday night
The toilets, i thought i was still tripping out on Saturday morning when i walked into a clean loo!
The Broccoli, dinosaurs, walking trees etc, all the visuals were wicked.
Saw some amazing sets, Stanton Warriors, Dub Fire and Utah Saints stood out.
The people banging away on drums after the music finished on Sunday, thankyou! We were so bummed when everything went off, but you made our evening; hands must have kaned though.
The number of people; we kept bumping into people we'd met before, which hardly ever happens at bigger festivals like Glasto.

Con's:

Getting my phone nicked ¬¬ managed to keep it all weekend, and then get it stolen on Monday morning, grrrr.
The music getting turned off so early on Sunday, it was a bit of an anti-climax.
Some of my mates, sad to say, they behaved like dicks.
The price of food, i know it's pretty much the same at every other festival, but damn!
A whole bottle of vodka leaking over all my clothes, i spent the weekend smelling like an alcoholic.
Losing my mind for most of Friday night x[
Having to return to reality, wish Glade had lasted longer.

But yeah, one of the best weekends ever, bring on next year

[shakyjane]

the visuals in the liquid were awesome too

[Hi-speed Dubbing]

Jeff Mills revved up his 909 right up at the end of his set to about 180bpm then finished up, after that and the lights went on the noise from the crowd was something special. From the back to the front of the tent there were deafening roars and cheers from the crowd, probably the loudest sound I'd heard all weekend - Jeff looked very happy.

[magneticgrooves]

And the ironic thing is that it was probably the crowd noise annoying the locals at some points. Next year we should get everyone to cheer as loud as they can for a few minutes, and watch the complaints flood in.

[laurennoodles]

am i the only person that didn't think the toilets were nice? lol none of them seemed to be cleaned until sunday evening, the ones near us (by the welfare tent/general store) were awful as there was only two they were literally on the verge of overflowing, we had to walk to the ones by vapor (possibly? i dont know it was a tent i never went in..!) when we were at our camp.
but then i haven't caught any strange diseases so i suppose i shouldn't complain...

[magneticgrooves]

am i the only person that didn't think the toilets were nice? lol none of them seemed to be cleaned until sunday evening, the ones near us (by the welfare tent/general store) were awful as there was only two they were literally on the verge of overflowing, we had to walk to the ones by vapor (possibly? i dont know it was a tent i never went in..!) when we were at our camp.
but then i haven't caught any strange diseases so i suppose i shouldn't complain...

I agree with you. I thought I was the only one who hated the toilets, maybe because I was using the same set as you most of the time. The people I was with also commented on the disgusting state of them, they were always piled right up full of tissue with a great big cherry on the top!

[Hi-speed Dubbing]

I had an amazing Glade - will be there next year without a shadow of a doubt, it was just the security I was complaining about mostly because we had to go out and in to get booze and the relentless searches started to get on my wick. I had my shoes searched about 5 times in the one day. We ended up giving free bottles Buckfast away to anyone passing as we had so of it much left! I still have a case of cider here too.

Anyhoo sorry about the swearing and moaning yest.

The people of Glade are of a special kind.

[bedrocking]

Having been a veteran glade goer for many years at glastonbury this was my first proper glade.

Just a few points:

- The best thing about glade at glastonbury is its setting. Whilst the site was nice overall I was hoping for a few more outside stages. I know there are sound restrictions, but not till 12 surely? Tents are great after dark when you can crank the volume up - but really not before. Could we not put some of the stages in the trees as well? Like at glasto?

- Not all of us like psy trance 24/7 and I would loved to have heard Sunday's Glade Stage line up outside, a bit more techno outside and more house outside too. All those people moaning about ONE set of techno outside need to realise that other than that it was almost completely psy trance on the origin and that was the only place you could sit or dance outside. I quite like a little bit of psy trance, but by sunday I was so bored of it, and yet if you wanted to be in the sunshine you had no where else to turn. I was absolutely dying for a bit of a early/mid 90s trance to be played on sunday night.

- There isn't much point booking three of the finest techno djs to play on firday night if they can't play loud music. What is actually the point? If you dont have the license - push them back to a time when they can play loud and have more ambient stuff later. I very much doubt Surgeon or Ben Sims will be back. Which is a shame as they are two of the best techno djs out there.

Just three ways that glade could have been better imo. I had a great time and after the sun had gone down on saturday I heard some incredilble music: Lee Burridge, Jeff Mills, Mids 90s Goa Trance in Liquid, Autechre & Jimmy & Matt in Sancho y Panza. Plus I actually really liked Allaby's techno set on sunday outside!

[Sperge]

The discussion of alternative locations has been moved to should-glade-move-from-wasing-t5889.html chaps. It's a good discussion, but let's keep this thread for feedback. Thanks.