With only about a month to go to what is shaping up to be one of the most exciting festivals this year, headliners at this year's Glade Festival are gearing up for their show-stopping performances. In anticipation for some exclusive live shows, this is what some of the Glade Festival headliners had to say about their forthcoming live sets...

Despite being booked to DJ at another well known festival this year, the Glade Festival is the only UK festival to see Underworld perform live. Underworld had a massive hit with 'Born Slippy' which was featured in the popular 1996 Danny Boyle film 'Trainspotting'. When asked why they chose Glade Festival as their only UK festival performance, front man Karl Hyde said: "We've always had very positive feedback about the organisers of Glade. There seems to be a lot of respect for them as they go the extra mile when putting on events, so, if there was any festival we were going to do it would be the Glade Festival."

When asked about the difference festival goers can expect when hearing them DJ and seeing them perform live Karl said: "Well we've never ever DJed live before. We've DJed on our internet radio show and of course at home but never as a paid gig in front of a public audience. Our DJ set is very eclectic but our live set is a lot more.

"Obviously Glade Festival is the only live UK show where you'll see Underworld the band this year. We can't wait to play live and think it's fantastic Glade Festival have a Funktion 1 soundsystem as they care about sound very much which is important to us."

Warp Records' Squarepusher had this to say: "The Glade is the best festival I have ever played in my life. It's always good to play to people that are up for a party and don't get too bothered about what algorithms you're running! It should be good fun checking out their attempts to translate my new emoto-prog / core-thrash songs into frenetic rave dance moves. Also, I might be premiering a new project there which depends on whether it's anywhere near ready. Could be good!"

Squarepusher can truly be described as a friend and supporter of Glade Festival. 2009 will be the 4th time he has performed at the festival but the first time he has headlined the outdoor stage on a Saturday night. This year he will be playing a full live set with drummer Alex Thomas including material both old and new.

Squarepusher toured Europe in March and April this year and their show at Glade Festival will be the first outdoor performance at a UK Festival. The show will include the interactive visuals that they took on the road in the spring.

In addition to their Glade Stage headline set they have hinted that they may use Glade Festival as an opportunity to showcase some material from their next project on a smaller stage sometime over the weekend. Keep your eyes and ears open!

Meanwhile, German electrohouse duo Booka Shade, famous for the huge club track 'Body Language' (featuring M.A.N.DY) said: "When they asked us to headline Glade Festival we were honoured. It's the perfect occasion to premier our new show. We've got a new set and new stage design and it all kicks off on July 17th." Booka Shade also head up the Get Physical record label.

Finally, Freeland - Adam Freeland's new live band said: "The Glade Festival is the perfect English festival experience that's still ALL about the music"

So, if you want to see some UK exclusive live festival sets, from some of the biggest names in dance music this year, the Glade Festival is where you should be.

Tickets are still available and cost a mere £125 (the same price as last year). All tickets include free on-site camping. Camper & caravans have now sold out, with tickets going on eBay for £492!. Tickets are also now on sale for the VIP boutique Tipi camping area too.

The Glade Festival won Best Dance Festival at last year's UK Festival Awards and is a 10,000 capacity event, visited by dance music and free spirited aficionados from around the world. The Glade Festival is known as one of Europe's best underground electronic festivals and will celebrate its sixth birthday in 2009 after starting life as part of Glastonbury festival (of which it is still a part of).

DIGITAL RELEASE: MONDAY 22ND JUNE 2009

 

Listen to the sound of the award-winning Glade Festival headliners with this twenty-track digital compilation album from www.trackitdown.net

 

In preparation for this year’s biggest three-day dance music event, Trackitdown.net have teamed up with Glade Festival to provide you with a Digital Album Bundle showcasing the incredible range of music and artists that the festival has become famous for. Trackitdown.net have been supporting Glade Festival since its inception in 2004 and firmly believe it to be the premier music event the UK has to offer. But don’t just take our word for it, Glade picked up the gong for Best Dance Music Festival in the 2008 UK Festival Awards and is lauded by none other than Glastonbury promoter Michael Eavis as a must go-to event this summer!

This year’s Glade Festival boasts 10 musical arenas with headline acts including; Underworld, Booka Shade, Carl Craig, Adam Beyer, Plump DJs, Mr C, Squarepusher, Chromatone, Eat Static, Sub Focus and Dave Clarke. To top it off, the event will be running Louder, Later, and Longer at its new site in Hampshire. Described as a place to come and express yourself freely, connect with likeminded people, dance, and have a blinding good time, Glade Festival is not to be missed by real festival fans. After five years in Berkshire, the festival has moved to the Matterley Bowl near Winchester which combines a beautiful bit of the old green and pleasant with the desire to crank up the music throughout the event and until midnight on Sunday.

This exclusive bundle consists of 20 full tracks from headline artists performing at this year’s festival in high quality 320kbps MP3 alongside a 70 minute continuous mix of all 20 tracks. Covering the wide range of styles you can expect to hear including: breaks, dubstep, tech house, psytrance, techno, drum & bass, ambient, minimal, electro and everything between. This digital format is perfect for Glade’s hardcore fans that know their tunes and want to get excited about the best weekend of the summer festival season.

Trackitdown.net is the UK’s leading dance music download website and legally sells music to customers in every territory on the dance planet. They currently feature nearly 1million tracks from 17,000 different labels who regularly supply new and back catalogue material in the highest quality 320kbps MP3 and WAV format.

 

Glade Festival 2009 digital album bundle track list:

 

01.  Underworld – Glam Bucket

02.  Tom Real - Bang The Box

03.  James Munro presents Quiet Storm - Curve

04.  Perfect Stranger - Free Cloud

05.  Mutant Clan - Kenesai

06.  NATP - Gotta Have More Cowbell

07.  Krafty Kuts & A Skills - Happiness

08.  Deekline & Wizard - Bounce and Rebound

09.  Rennie Pilgrem - Rich Rule Us

10.  Drop The Lime - Hear Me

11.  Plump DJs - Beat Myself Up

12.  Beat Assassins - We Run Tings

13.  Far Too Loud - Play It Loud (Broken Robot)

14.  Plaza De Funk - Drop The Bomb

15.  Disco of Doom - The Click (Zombie F*ckers Mix)

16.  Chromatone - Smarty Pads

17.  Tristan - If Only

18.  High Rankin - Escape From The Hood

19.  Shitmat - DJ Got Virus

20.  Sub Focus – Timewarp

For more information on this year’s incredible festival and for full line up details please visit http://www.gladefestival.com and to download the album visit www.trackitdown.net

If you have never been to the Glade Festival in the UK, then you have missed out on one of the truly uniqe British festivals around. Centred around mainly electronic music, it caters for many tastes. You will find, Trance, Psy Trance, Drum and Bass and one of the best Breaks stages at any Festival (Carmaggedon is where you will find us this year). Glade started out at Glastonbury in a little wooded area, I remember seeing Annie Mac there at some point in 2006 and it was a wicked little foresty club area type thing.

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