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    Underworld deliver a fantastic grand finale at this year's Glade

    Glade Festival 2009 review

    published: Wed 22nd Jul 2009

    Underworld

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    Matterley Bowl near Winchester, Hants
    £125 for the weekend, student £100 - SOLD OUT
    daily capacity: 12500
    last updated: Tue 14th Jul 2009

    Nitin Sawhney
    Sunday was much drier, the strong wind and good drainage made for a much less slippery day as the previous day's mud dried out remarkably quickly. We caught the end of Finley Quaye's set which looked to have gone down well and next up on the Main Stage was Nitin Sawhney who had to halt his set to sort out the sound for the guys and gals on stage. The vocalists still struggling to find a working microphone his set was luscious even so, the beautiful sounds eventually coming across loud and clear. We were treated to some fantastic tabla playing and vocal dexterity's seldom heard.

    Underworld
    Next on the Main Stage was Autokratz who played to a diminishing crowd and we exit over to the Origin stage for a bit of Psytrance dance about, a brief rest then back to the Main Stage for Headliners Underworld for their only UK festival appearance this year. The guys were well on form - a full two hour set with all your Underworld favourites included. Easily the biggest crowd of the weekend at the Glade stage it was great to hear them again and see them so obviously enjoying the moment! Brilliant. A fantastic grand finale but we were still able to party on for a little while longer with Eat Static doing one of the last chance to stomp sets of the weekend on the Liquid stage.

    The atmosphere all weekend has been great, with so many people commenting to me about how friendly everyone has been and how they've not seen any crap attitude or behaviour. A testament to the organisers and punters alike. Keep up the good work. Everything seemed to go well throughout the weekend, no real issues to report. The necessariums all seemed to be kept in good clean order over the weekend with no horror stories to report. The bars never ran dry and it was easy to get served, the water supply was in good order, the small crew who cleaned up after us was thorough in the early hours. Dare I say it - the site could easily hold more people than the 10,000 of this year.

    All in all the creators of this festival have made lots of people very happy indeed. Three cheers! Hip hip, hip hip, hip hop.

    around the festival site (Inspiral)
    review by: Phil 'The Van' Lenthall

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    Matterley Bowl near Winchester, Hants
    £125 for the weekend, student £100 - SOLD OUT
    daily capacity: 12500
    last updated: Tue 14th Jul 2009


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