New location – 3rd time lucky! Smile
Glade Festival, which takes place next month from Friday 10th until Sunday 12th June has revealed it will now be held at Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, in Norfolk.
Last week the trustees of Mansion House, in Biggleswade, where the event was due to happen this year, decided they did not want the event to take place on their site, despite contracts being signed off. Fortunately for organisers Lord Cholmondeley who owns the estate at Houghton Hall and the surrounding estate has stepped in to host the Glade and this is where the event will now take place in 2011 and organisers say it will be based there for the foreseeable future.
Glade organiser Ans had this to say about the situation, “Last week I got back to work having taken some time off to get married the weekend before, to find that the proverbial had hit the fan. We lost our site last week.
The trustees at the Mansion House decided that they didn’t want the event after all, despite contracts signed and deposits paid. The new Glade team decided not to tell me so that it wouldn’t ruin my big day and what they have done, amazingly, is manage to miraculously find another venue.
The new site, whilst being a bit further away from London, is by far superior. It is set in beautiful, privately owned 5,000 acre Estate which set in beautiful parkland laid out in the 1720’s. It is also on sand, meaning excellent drainage, so we won’t be having a repeat of the floods of 2009, regardless of the weather.”
Lord Cholmondeley, the Land Owner added, “We are delighted to be hosting The Glade Festival at Houghton Hall this summer. This is a new event for Houghton but something that we think will work well in the beautiful and historic Park. We welcome the new management team, who come highly recommended, we know are renowned in the industry and have an outstanding portfolio of events. We are excited to see what they do with The Glade, and look forward to working with them.”
Houghton Hall is situated just outside King’s Lynn where the nearest station is. There will be shuttle busses running between the site and the Hall.
The line-up includes headliners Trentemoller, Drumcode Records, & Global Communication, also confirmed are Andrew Weatherall, Photek, Dreadzone, Krafty Kuts, Hybrid, Dirtyphonics, Skrillex, Engine-Earz Experiment, Dub FX & Flower Fairy, Dub Pistols, Dirty Vegas, Ben & Lex, Ajja, Allaby, Atmos, Atomic Drop, Broken Toy, Dickster, FORM, Headroom, Logica, M-Theory, Man With No Name, Prometheus (live), Quantize, Sonic Species, The Commercial Hippies, and Tristan, Edoardo, DJ Emok, Hamish, Liquid Ross, Lucas, Regan, Shane Gobi, Richard Devine, Eprom, Shitmat, Eskmo, Young Montana?, Broken Note, Loops Haunt, Koreless, Anxst, Baconhead, Beckett & Barker, The Squire Of Gothos, Threnody, Silverman, Revolva (Buf b2b Ghettozoid), Bashout Allstars, Spongebob Squarewave, Warlock, Gaudi, International Observer, Echaskech, Slackbaba, Sisyphe, Mbuki Mvuki, Dick Trevor, Ans, George Barker, Tripswitch, Alok, Aliji, Naked Nick, Moon, Nova, DJ Ekanta, Justin Chaos and Lewah.. For the line-up details as available please click here
Glade Festival originated as an underground dance stage at Glastonbury, before becoming an independent event in its own right in 2004. After a year out in 2010 due to high legal and security costs the festival will make just 5,000 tickets available for Glade 2011. Organisers are taking it back to its roots in terms of vibe with smaller numbers making it a much more intimate event.
Tickets are priced at £135. A campervan pass is priced at £50.
To buy tickets visit: Glade Festival
