The official Glade feedback thread

[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