Wasing at all costs?

[Charlie]

Regarding your poll question, "If Glade is at Wasing in 2008 will you go?" I had to answer as I love the festival, know loads of people who go and am guaranteed to have a good time - no matter what the weather is like.

I have two reservations with using the same site again:

1. The music restrictions is a real pity as some of the tunes simply don't work when listened to at quieter levels (I'm thinking of a lot of the breaks in particular here).

2. If you sell more tickets than this year and use the same sized camping area and the weather is nice then I have absolutely no idea how everyone will find space to camp. It was a push this year and that was with maybe a couple of thousand people not making it down... how would it be with another four thousand making it down?!?!

So... how many tickets are going to be sold for next year? And will there be more camping area?

[TangentGirl]

yeah it's no doubt the fact we're 'mates' that means we agree lol

[TangentGirl]

and this in't a personal attack sperge, re the psychoacousitcs, I just don't happen to believe it/belive it in this case.

I don't have a issue with being regarded as having a moan about the sound - I didn't think it was up to scratch...if that's moaning then thats fine by me.

[TangentGirl]

*hold hands in the air because she dosn't care enough to keep bickering*

[willow]

tbh sound is much less of an issue to me than the size and capacity of wasing...at the moment it just isn't big enough. i'm referring to the camping...this was my 3rd year and it gets worse every time...we got there at 6 on thursday and we still struggled to find a decent spot (having got there on friday in previous years and had no probs). some people were camped right up against the fence in the area above id spiral.
as someone above said, if everyone had turned up it would have a nightmare. how can the organisers continue to raise the capacity while keeping the area the same...they may be cashing in but it doesnt do punters any good.

[Chopper]

I thought the topic was becoming a "we'll go to Glade no matter what, coz we love it so much" topic, but much as I love Glade, surely if people love it that much, they would want it to grow and progress, not stagnate. So much as you love Glade, have a long hard think about whats more important when listening to music, sound quality or where you listen to it?

For me its the sound quality....and it just was not up to scratch again this year....deny it all you like, but theers not one person on these boards who could have said the bass made their stomach churn, or they had to shout at all times to be heard in the tents. As I said before if you were happy with the sound levels thats fine, but everyone I was with thought the sound levels were really poor again!

[Sperge]

tbh sound is much less of an issue to me than the size and capacity of wasing...at the moment it just isn't big enough. i'm referring to the camping...this was my 3rd year and it gets worse every time...we got there at 6 on thursday and we still struggled to find a decent spot (having got there on friday in previous years and had no probs).

It's a very good point, it was already a struggle finding space for Camp GT at 2pm!

The organisers do insist that extra fields can be opened up for camping (Nick Ladd says the festival site of the first three years was just one-eighth of the Wasing Estate - mind you, a good chunk of that is forest...)

There was camping space on the outer fields - but let's face it, everyone wants to be close to the action and so the spaces near the stages fill up very fast indeed. It was ludicrously fast this year.

The thing is that the Glade organisers are very strongly attached to the Wasing Estate for all sorts of reasons - despite whatever you might have heard elsewhere about some four-year deal that has come to an end. Far from wanting to leave Wasing, what I have been told by two organisers on two separate occasions is that they think Wasing is the perfect location for the festival. A person with strong Glade connections explains some of their reasoning at post62585.html#p62585

On the other hand, Ned Overkill has welcomed the criticism as well as the praise in his post at post63258.html#p63258, and actually calls on people who had an issue with the Overkill sound to write in about it at post63297.html#p63297 . I'd suggest emailing info@gladefestival.com to make your views known either way. Ned says he'll ask the organisers about whether to ask people to write direct to the council but I think that will get the thumbs-down if the letters are from non-locals. Having to process thousands of letters from non-locals, whose views cannot be considered in a licence hearing, would use up a lot of council funds and could therefore be counter-productive. So, as I say, try writing to the Glade email address first.

[Con]

i come from belfast anyway...so anywhere in england will do...

[ouzodave]

It didn't even feel like the Glade to me this year with all that fucking mud. I had a blast but if the weather is like that again next year and at Wasing i would be titsed. Not that the organizers can control the weather like. The cops were doing that by seeding the clouds on Thursday

[alboot]

id quite like a change of venue, I did hear a rumour onsite that that was defo gonna be the last one at wasing, but everychance thats bullshit. tbh next year ill probably wait and buy my tickets last min, so i know what the script is with the weather, makes a massive diffrence

[Chopper]

this is precisely my point alboot....its the people and music that make Glade for me....not the venue!

It could be in a fiel anywhere for all the attention I pay to the scenery....and how often did you go about Glade saying....wow look at the trees?

I would much rather sacrifice venue than sound quality!

[alboot]

and how often did you go about Glade saying....wow look at the trees?

haha i spent a full day (saturday) doing just that, rtotally out my face, missing hundreeds of good music and listening to shite psytrance

[ThE99THReDBallooN]

AW can't do that again doubt if they'll recover... if it's alternatives you're after then there's lot's of smaller festivals BUT obviously a huge hole for events other than psy or commercial, maybe someone will start summat next year!

sound issues, yeah maybe but you do realise this is still the best run event out of the lot, even with the odd niggle over security (no smoke without fire?) which are usually isolated incidents

weather doesn't come into it, for a few it may stop play but they'd still have turned up, & it can't be as bad next year

personally i think it's the wrong / bangface / techno crowd spoiling it for me. it wasn't like that in 05. not that i have anything against these musics either!! it's the whole slagging match that is shocking as i always thought it was this scene (ie: glade) Vs commercial, garage & r&b - you know, our scene is about dancing & good vibes apposed to turning up at some place full of wannabe gangsters with shooters . so yeah, leave it out, some of us don't really distinguish between the musics at glade except for some being for raving & some being for chilling, yes? and not all of us like one music & only one music, why can't we (i?) go about our business without this crap. if i stray from the overkill (or breaks, or id.spral....) & go to check out summat else i am suddenly second class citizen, wtf?

so yes i'd still go to wasing, but they need to sort the sound out.

thats deffo my glade attitude, raving or chilling
tis all good

[admin]

I've asked Nick privately whether the Glade will stay at Wasing in light of the licensing stitch-up and the increasingly draconian policing and he says: "Truth is we are still looking at it and assessing the feedback from the locality."

[Sperge]

this is precisely my point alboot....its the people and music that make Glade for me....not the venue!

It could be in a fiel anywhere for all the attention I pay to the scenery....and how often did you go about Glade saying....wow look at the trees?

I would much rather sacrifice venue than sound quality!

Well, having made a few more inquiries, all I can say on this front is that nothing is set in stone. This tale about some four-year deal was always bollocks, the organisers had always made it clear privately that they wanted Wasing to become the permanent venue for The Glade.

But obviously some of the developments of this year may make it a somewhat less attractive option than it was. There will no doubt be a serious rethink on everything, just as there was around this time last year leading to the scrapping of the main dance tent and the addition of the new tents.

[kgnome]

Too right I will. In fact, I almost stayed behind, ready for next year.

[barnett]

I hope it is in wasing, its only a 5 min drive from my house which was a bonus last year! As much as its against the festival spirit its nice to walk home have a shower

[Sperge]

Old thread alert!

As everyone presumably knows by now, the application process is under way for a five-year licence for the Glade to be held at Wasing Estate. Just in case anyone gets confused by this thread.

[fabricated]

confused?
us gladepeeps?
never!!!

Old thread alert!

As everyone presumably knows by now, the application process is under way for a five-year licence for the Glade to be held at Wasing Estate. Just in case anyone gets confused by this thread.