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].

An application has been made for the event to be held at the Wasing Estate for the fourth consecutive year. The licence application suffered an early setback when it was dismissed on a technicality^[2]^[3]. However the organisers were invited to resubmit their application, which they have done, and a new public hearing has been arranged. Dates for the 2007 event have been confirmed as 20-22 July^[4].

The festival had formerly featured 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).

But the organisers have stated in interviews that the main dance tent will be scrapped for the 2007 event and replaced by a new open air stage for predominantly live acts and two smaller tents comprising a techno tent and the Roots Tent, which is themed on the origins of dance music^[5]^[6]. It has also been revealed that there will be a new space called the Nectar Temple, comprising visionary and performance arts ^[7].

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

2004: Mark Broom, Timo Maas, Freq Nasty, 808 State, Dreadzone Soundsystem, Ceephax, Pete bones, The Egg and DJ AFX.^[8]
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 some festival goers, after the use of two security companies caused a number of reports of them being heavy-handed.^[9]^[10]

Tickets for The Glade are sold by the G Tickets^[11] and Access All Areas^[12] ticket agencies.