The Glade

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The Glade is an electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival. The annual festival takes place in England for three days in the summer and attracted around 13,000 people in 2005. The festival's home for the first three years has been the Wasing Estate in Aldermaston, near Newbury in Berkshire.^[1]

The festival features nine main dance tents and stages: Main "Glade" Dance Tent (major artists), Breaksday (UK breakbeat), idSpiral (chillout and non-musical acts), Liquid Connective (psy-trance), Origin (psy-trance), Sancho Panza (house), Pussy Parlure (soul, salsa, R&B, reggae and world), Overkill (formerly the LittleBig tent, featuring breakcore, gabber techno and mash-up) and the Rabbit Hole (acoustic jam tent).

The Glade features many acts that are well known in the 'alternative dance' world. Some notable Performers include:

2004: Mark Broom, Timo Maas, req Nasty, 808 State, Dreadzone Soundsystem, Ceephax, Pete bones, The Egg and DJ AFX.^[2]
2005: Hallucinogen, The Orb, Dreadzone, Squarepusher, AFX, Layo & Bushwacka! and Sasha, among others.
2006 (14-16 July): Domestic, Panik, Atomic Pulse, Rinkadink, Alabama 3, Ticon, EVP, Emok, Headroom, Ecliptic, DNOX, Scorb, Dimitri DKN and Liquid Soul, Phil Hartnoll, Plump DJs, A Guy Called Gerald, Kevin Saunderson, Ceephax, Juno Reactor, Layo & Bushwacka!, Banco de Gaia, Gaudi, Coldcut, Hybrid, Hellfish & The Producer, Krafty Kuts, Bong-Ra and DJ Zinc

Some festivalgoers in 2005 complained about an increase in petty crime compared to 2004, some of which was attributed to a high level of gatecrashers breaching the perimeter fence. 2006 prompted yet more criticism from festival goers, after the use of two rival security companies caused a number of reports of them being heavy handed.

These concerns have prompted the organisers to take steps to upgrade security, including the use of sheet metal fencing (known as Steel Shield) similar to that used at Glastonbury Festival since 2002.

Tickets for The Glade are sold by the G Tickets^[3] and Access All Areas^[4] ticket agencies.