After last year’s Biblical weather the festival organisers are looking forward to the 5th chapter in the Glade manifesto which is shaping up to be the best in the events history. Last year the team mounted a Herculean effort in true Glade spirit to deliver a groundbreaking event that will go down in history as the time that they battled Mother Nature in all her glory and won! The Glade is now firmly entrenched as the one of Europe’s best underground dance music festivals, with 12 stages of dope music, a super friendly crowd and absolutely no corporate sponsorship. All of which makes for a vibe unique to the UK festival scene. Anyone who has been lucky enough to get a ticket to one of the last 4 sell-out events will understand what they mean…

This year’s headliners are Dubfire, Jeff Mills, Pendulum LIVE, James Holden, Frequency 7 and Autechre backed up by a stunning array of artists that reads like a who’s who of the Dance music cognoscenti.

Well what can we say about Dubfire that hasn’t been said already – a Grammy award winning global dance superstar. Recent remixes for the likes of Steve Hillage & Miquette Giraudy’s System 7, UNKLE, Smith & Selway and Ritchie Hawtin will no doubt further cement his current status as remixer du jour. With the success of original productions, his remixes, and extensive tour dates, one thing is abundantly clear: based on the current state of play, Dubfire is one of 2008’s most exciting musical visionaries – fact.

Next up we have Pendulum who are taking the world by storm with their explosive cacophony of guitars and D’n B playing live and direct on the main stage. With the global success of their debut album ‘Hold You Colour’, regular Radio 1 playlisting and relentless touring its no wonder they are being hailed as the next Prodigy - it’s going to be a huge year for the Pendulum boys. Jeff Mills –Detroit legend and founding member of the iconic musical collective Underground Collective – joins the likes of UK progressive house and glitchy techno DJ/producer James Holden as well as Frequency 7 the mighty new project from Surgeon and Ben Simms andWarp Records stalwarts Autechre who have just released their ninth studio album ‘Quaristice’ – put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Still to this day the only successful offshoot of the Glastonbury Festival where it was known as THE renegade dance music stage and it has now become one of the foremost electronic music festivals on the planet. Rather than swimming in the mainstream, Glade runs with the people who know what’s happening on the ground in breaks, psy trance, techno, electronics and house. Promoters involved in the Glade include Breaksday, Nano Records, Sancho Panza, Overkill, Liquid Connective and Inspiral and you’ll also find input from many incredible people on all sorts of levels so that the music is just one of the incredible ingredients in making the Glade a truly spectacular music festival.

The team have been working round the clock to ensure that Glade remains a friendly, awe-inspiring wonderland to party in. Amazing new site art, circus performances, stage designs and décor, lights and lasers will make this year a visceral audio visual assault of the senses. As well as this there have been significant improvements elsewhere with extended camping areas, increased disabled access and Funktion 1 sound fields in all the main tents running after midnight; The result of this is that outside there is comparatively a lot less noise and the sound inside is clear, constant and loud... It's killer.

Having sold out every year so far we’re not expecting tickets to hang around very long; especially when you bear in mind that there are less tickets available than last year.
So log onto Glade Festival 2008 now where there’s a load more information and instructions as to how to get tickets. Tickets for the weekend are £125 with free camping.
'We, the promoters of the Glade, are all first generation ravers, so we are keeping that unity vibe alive by keeping it real and not selling it out to commercialism; we don't go for corporate sponsorship because we believe that’s exactly the sort of thing people are looking to get a break from for a weekend. They want to be in the beautiful reality bubble that is a good festival... and that’s what the Glade is about ultimately... a place to come and express yourself freely, connect with likeminded people, dance and have blindingly good time...' Nick Ladd – Glade Festival

Full line up:

Glade Stage
Dubfire
Pendulum – Live
Atomic Hooligan – Live
Billy Nasty
DJ Friction
Dreadzone – Live
Dub Pistols – Live
Eddy Temple-Morris
Gaudi Live Dub Laboratory – Live
James Holden
James Monro – Live
Meat Katie – Live
Overproof Sound System – Live
Pathaan
Quiet Village – Live
Red Snapper – Live
Subgiant – Live
System 7 – Live
The Grid – Live
The Orb – Live
Ulrich Schnauss – Live
Utah Saints
Vitalic – Live

Origin Stage
Ace Ventura – Live
Allaby – Live
Ans
Antix | Fiord – Live
Aphid Moon – Live
Beatnik – Live
Dickster – Live
Dimitri Nakov
Edoardo
Fearsome Engine – Live
First Stone – Live
Emok
Flip Flop – Live
Headroom – Live
Laughing Buddha – Live
Logic Bomb – Live
Perfect Stranger – Live
Pogo – Live
Protoculture - Live Act
Regan
Slack Baba – Live
Zen Mechanics – Live

Vapor Stage
Jeff Mills
Frequency 7 (Ben Sims v Surgeon) – Live
Slam
Jim Masters
Paul Woolford
Claude Von Stroke
Mark Broom

Breaksday
Andrea Lai
Aquasky
Beat Assassins
Ben & Lex
Bodysnatchers
Caspa & Rusko
Ctrl Z
Deekline & Wizard with MC Ivory
Drummatic Twins
Elite Force
Flore
Greg Dread
High Eight
Jackal & Hyde
James Gill
Jay Cunning & Atomic Hooligan
Klaus Hill
Lady Waks
Madox
Mark Irration
Mr B
Mr. No Hands
Noisia
Peter Paul
Plastican
Plump Djs
Quest and MC Ken Mac
Rico Tubbs
Sick Rick
Slinky
Stanton Warriors
Steve Thorpe
Tayo

Overkill
Autechre
Bass Clef
Ben Pest
Black Rabbit
Cassetteboy + DJ Rubbish
Clark – Live
Current Value
Daedelus
DJ Distance
Dj Donna Summer
DJ Godfather
Dj Rupture w/ Jahdan
Droon
Drop the Lime
Electromeca
Elemental
Japan Invasion – Bogulta
Japan Invasion - DJ Scotch Egg – Live
Japan Invasion - Dokkebi Q
Japan Invasion – Maruosa
Japan Invasion - OVe-NaXx
Kj Sawka
N>E>D
Punksi
Luke's Anger
Rotator
SickBoy
The Bug feat. Daddy Freddy
Tobias Schmidt
Tomb Crew
Vex'd
Warlock
VISUALS by Anti VJs & Flat-E

Liquid Stage
Abakus
Aliji
Avalon
Bonze
Braincell
Capsula
Far Too Loud
Freshold
Fromem Ory
Hamish
Hemi-Sync
iLS
Ital Tek
Jeremy
Jon Kenobi
Kalyug/ Sattyananda
Kana
Kuba
Liquid Ross vs Natzan
Mood Deluxe
Orchid Star
DJ Paul Taylor
Pitch Black
Rex
Screenager
Simon Pieman
Sketchy Pimps
Subsource
Warp Technique
Tom Fu
Whiplash
Yab Yum
Zak
Zub Zub

Sancho Panza
Mike Monday
Mr C
Tim Sheridan
Spektre
Frenchy
Josh Tweek
Lee Burridge
Dj Garth
Matt Brown
Jimmy K-Tel
Big Daddy
Earl Gateshead
Eren
Matt Braddock
Freddy Love

Inspiral
Aliji
Aviva
Becs
Cheju
Digitonal
Dubuddha
Dynaglide
Gandolfi
Giani
Greg Hunter
Halogen
Infinite Scale
IPcress
Josko
Justin Chaos
Louisa Van Jarsveld
Luna Lis
Master Margherita
Matt B
Mauxuam
Mayra
Milli Moonstone
Mirror System
Naasko
Nalepa
Naked Nick
Nick Interchill
Northcore
Nova
Paddy Free
RND
Rena Jones
Sick Rebel
SandRa
Skoi
Tom Fu
Viscia Piscis
Zak
Zizou

Pussy Parlure
Emporium Cabaret
Cabaret Interstellar
Dr Meaker
Cut A Shine
Unk un Neece (DJ)
People's Republic of Disco (DJ)
We Don't Play (DJ)
Generals Hi Fi (DJ)

Market Sound Systems
Chai Wallahs
Come and Play
One Tribe World Stage


Glade Festival 2008