Veteran festival promoter supports Glade Festival in open letter
Winner of Best Dance Festival at UK Festival Awards 2008 Louder, Later. Longer. 16th - 19th July 2009
VETERAN FESTIVAL PROMOTER SUPPORTS GLADE FESTIVAL & THE INDEPENDENT FESTIVAL MARKET
Dated: 12 May 2009 Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has publicly supported Glade Festival in an open letter today. By supporting his festival's successful export, the letter also gives the community of smaller UK festivals a boost.
Glastonbury is without doubt the undisputed star of the British festival landscape, and the creative inspiration for a plethora of other successful festival organisers. It is also the mothership that has provided hundreds of thousands of people with their first festival experience. Glade Festival has been a part of Glastonbury for ten years and they developed the first standalone Glade Festival at Wasing Estate, Newbury, West Berkshire in July 2004. Now in its sixth year, Glade Festival makes its debut at Matterley Bowl, Winchester, Hampshire from 16th - 19th July 2009 having outgrown its previous site. The four-day electronic music and arts festival will now go on later, longer and louder.
Michael Eavis' letter read: "About ten years ago I persuaded Luke Piper, Glade Festival Director to run a new area at Worthy Farm called 'The Glade'. 'Why the glade' Luke said - 'sounds like a perfume' - 'an opening in the woods' I said-'a perfect venue'. And so it was. So successful was The Glade, he asked to borrow the concept for a site in Newbury which worked too. "Now, after a good few years the site has moved from Newbury to Winchester, a beautiful farm in a natural amphitheatre with lots more room - better access, and a lot less people living close by. "The Glade Festival has lots of Glastonbury connections with thrills and feelings not dissimilar to our own, including programming and atmosphere that has form and reputation. "If you couldn't get a ticket for our show here at Glastonbury, thank you very much for trying, but would you mind me suggesting that you give Glade Festival a try? I don't think you'll regret it!" Glastonbury is hugely responsible for the development of UK festival culture. It is a gateway event that draws thousands of new people every year to experience their first festival. It represents what festivals are all about. As a result, it expands the festival-going public who benefit from smaller events like Glade Festival as we continuously search for similar events that have a Glastonbury ethos.
This year's Glade Festival has ten stages and features the likes of Underworld, Booka Shade, Juan Atkins, Squarepusher, Nitin Sawhney and world music maestro Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, alongside a host of other performance art, circus, cabaret, comedy, a healing field, mind blowing installation art and a myriad of other fascinations.
The Glade Festival has gone from strength to strength - winning Best Dance Festival at 2008's UK Festival Awards.
Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July 2009 Tickets £125 + £7 bf from gladefestival.com Children / Teenagers: Under 12's free if accompanied with an adult. 13 - 15year olds are allowed but must be accompanied by an adult - tickets cost £125 + bf.
Location: Matterley Bowl, Winchester, Hampshire Capacity: 10,000 Entrance: gates open midday Thursday 16th July Hours: Thursday midday - late | Friday midday - 4am | Saturday midday - 6am | Sunday midday - midnight [subject to licensing] Bars will be open 24 hours a day.
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