Glade RIP

[basingstokejames]

http://www.gladefestival.com/news/?p=72

[r0cky]

[Breeze]

To make matters worse the reluctance of the police to negotiate in advance and deliberately delay any dialogue with us has resulted in our being unable to tie down a final costing for the event. This, along with unexpected legal fees associated with a last minute license review, has radically increased the cost of the festival.

[DaiBoyCookie]

Sad news indeed

[Guest musiclove123]

http://www.gladefestival.com/news/?p=72

[HAPPY CHEF]

Sad news.

[idontgetoutmuch]

Was indeed a brilliant festival, saddened by this news

[mouth]

that is a shitter, a few of my mates will be gutted as they were going to glade instead of glasto.

[Nyika]

The year I have a ticket as well

[JodiB]

Its a shame they did not get more support from us punters.

If they sold all the tickets it would still be on.

[Martin Ashford]

One of the best festivals I've ever been to - let's hope they can bounce back in future. Glade is completely unique in the UK.

[G1T]

Shit.

[Sabcully]

Bloody gutted. Was my first year this year and bought tickets only 10 days ago.

Crap! Bloody upper class capitalist narrow minded health and safety loving council bastards !!!!!

[G1T]

Bloody upper class capitalist narrow minded health and safety loving council bastards !!!!!

[Sabcully]

Seems like it was the Po' that killed it tbf. See what they did to Strawberry Fair this year for similar.

[Deepsky]

To be fair, strawberry fair was getting out of hand with the amount of utter cretins and general twattish behaviour.

I have friends who live in Cambridge and they can't stand it, every year their gardens and property get abused & trashed and it's the same story for lots and lots of poor residents that have to bear the brunt of such mindless behaviour. One of my friends has had their car damaged no less than three times and on one ocassion had somebody piss in it.

Not just that but it's just become a blatant excuse for everyone just to get wrecked.

I used to go back in the mid-late 90's and it was such a friendly and vibrant attitude. I went in 2008 and it was just dismal and had a very 'edgy' air to it and just didn't feel right or pleasant at all.

f**king k zombies everywhere as well. (one of the problems with glade with the sheer amount of ketamine also tbh)

[Barefooted_raver]

I am absolutly gutted about this news. I have been there twice, once when I was 17 where I saw Richie Hawtin for the first time and then when I was about 20. Both times I was lucky enough to be bathing in the hottest sunshine in Britain ever watching the dust lift off from the outdoor psytrance stage as gorgeous girls stomped their bare feet! Even used the photo as my profile pic!!

I wasn't going this year but this is still terrible news for more 'underground' influenced festivals.

The one thing that i don't agree with is the comment someone made on the glade page saying that this is due to the influence of Conservatives already!!! That is a ridiculous theory not only because of the timing, but also because Glade is notoriously a rave formed and attended to by public school, conservative hippy students! I am not a public school boy by the way

[mahonio]

a real shame. Was the first festival I ever went to, made some great mates at it, people who i've travelled to numerous european festivals with, as well as loads of club nights in the UK, and the same bunch who I will be doing my first Glastonbury with this year.

[Deepsky]

The one thing that i don't agree with is the comment someone made on the glade page saying that this is due to the influence of Conservatives already!!! That is a ridiculous theory not only because of the timing, but also because Glade is notoriously a rave formed and attended to by public school, conservative hippy students! I am not a public school boy by the way

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I suspect in the years to come that many festivals are going to come under greater financial pressure due to the cost of police/security/stewarding.

As it stands security now have to be SIA registered and that is a hell of a price to pay. They get beetween 8 and 12 quid an hour and that does not take into account what the cmpany charges. However some in the SIA have their eye on stewarding and want it brought in line with the security at festivals. They do grumble as stewards are not really volunteers (and technically are not). Many companys are now offering NVQ's in stewarding at events, and I can see in a few years that the SIA would have put on enough pressure to make it compulsory to have NVQ staff, and the staff to be paid. Now that will cripple a lot of festivals.

[tilt]

Moving it to matterley was an awful idea.

[staggerlee]

Sad indeed.

Hopefully like Christ it will rise again, bigger and better.

[droneoid]

I suspect in the years to come that many festivals are going to come under greater financial pressure due to the cost of police/security/stewarding.

[APC]

Pretty much Norfolk alone contributed to the most of this 'war on raves', which sadly includes festivals too.