Shangri La 2014

[Pbird81]

It was so much fun, a really small club where they were handing out folders for you to dance with. Saw someone dancing with a water cooler too. Also the people who 'worked' there would give you documents to pass to reception or different people and every so often they'd throw loads of paper in the air like confetti, was soooo much fun! I was really impressed by the acting of the people in there too, I was in there for about an hour on Sunday night and they stayed in character the whole time.

[matt1991]

See here:

https://www.facebook.com/ShangriLaGlasto/posts/783598658351638

[parsonjack]

I missed that - though did see a different Jesus hula-hooping in the West Holts field.

Your Jesus sounds very much like this fella:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaan_Hadchiti

[michael eavis' beard]

On the Sunday night in the Snake Pit they said that they might not be there next year so even if there's not a change in theme there may be a change to some of the venues.

[Sawdusty surfer]

I heard that next year over the course of the festival Hell would slowly tale over Heaven with the complete absorption of Heaven happening late on the Sunday night.

[eoJ]

Have to agree...the art up there was really special this year...gallery quality through and through...

Which were the Banksy's though? Was one of them the Roger and Jessica Rabbit?

[sjseabass]

I heard that next year over the course of the festival Hell would slowly tale over Heaven with the complete absorption of Heaven happening late on the Sunday night.

Edited July 7, 2014 by theevilfridge

[The Placid Casual]

Do you have to get there quite early to enjoy it. We got there about half 2, and the place was way too packed for our liking. We had ran out of everything though, so that didn't help

[DJL]

After three festivals i've never managed to enjoy shangri la much - i love the idea of it but the reality (much like arcadia) has never really been that great (unless you miss a headliner presumably)

[CaledonianGonzo]

Go on the Thursday evening. It's not normally too busy.

[frostypaw]

cant say what I thought as couldnt even get near it.....the one time we tried we got to the outskirts of block 9 and couldnt move for a mass of people so just thought sod it lol

[Mardy]

it's sort of become our sunday night tradition, head up there at about 9 or 10 or so, spend some time in all the fields there, SL, The common, Block 9, perfect way to end the festival. It's what marks Glastonbury out as unique, it's the heart of the whole damn thing.

[DJL]

Yeah thursday was rammed. As was one night (friday?) at about 3.30 am which i was hoping would be late enough. I've been there slightly later before but by then (on the hell stage) the sun was coming up which lessened the effect a little.

I'm beginning to think that the park and green fields late at night are more my thing... Though i love electronic music

[gooner1990]

Found it way too packed when I went on friday and saturday night...sat night especially around 3.30am-5am.....like being on the london underground nr shangri-hell stage.

Will prob just do the glade and then stone circle if i'm still going should i get tickets to go next year.

[CaledonianGonzo]

thats when we went....or tried to go....it was jam packed!(I guess as there was no main stage music to split the crowd)...experience can be summed up by taking an age to get to block 9 etc then one of our group needing a number 2 , finding because of the way the crowd was going the only way to get to the nearest longdrops other then going the long long long way around was by basically running against the herd which was very stressful and took about 15 minutes to travel about 100 metres to the loos after that we just gave up thought sod it this is `to busy`(ie so busy it wasnt fun) and went back to our tents for more booze then went off to drink up on park hill and chill out. Noone was up for giving it another go after that evening so we never went back to it. Shame as I had a blast last year but then we got lucky and got down there without any trouble that time around.

[dimus]

Had the weirdest/coolest experience of the festival in Shangri la about 2am Friday night/Saturday morning whilst a little high. Can't remember which department it was but it was the one with meat in formaldehyde on the outside. Walked past a plain red locked door, then as my gf walked past it lit up with a no entry sign. She tried the door and it opened. We followed a narrow corridor and ended up in a hospital waiting room with transvestite nurses plus a hot female nurse, complete with magazines on the table and a smell of antiseptic. This actually caused a bit of unease and trepidation. We were told to sit at either sides and were asked various questions and then had to sign at the bottom. Next thing we were assigned a doctor and strapped into a wheelchair using arm restraints and then blindfolded. Next we were wheeled along while various 'experiments' were performed on us including being asked what my favourite colour was whilst biscuits were eaten by my ears, water squirted in my face and being told they were going to test my elbow and then having something bizarre put over my mouth. Finally the blind fold was taken off and the was a matron. She gave me a shot/antidote in a test tube then had a spoon and said open wide. This contained glitter that was blown in our faces which because of the water completely covered us (I'm still finding specks even now). Finally the arm restraints were removed and we were thrown out of separate doors back in to the throng and told never to come back again. Cue looks of absolute bewilderment on us both and other people as we emerge completely covered in glitter. Walked back round to door to find it locked again with no sign. Never saw it lit again the whole festival.

I wonder how many of these right place right time bits there are. More than you'd think I bet. Don't know if any would be quite as surreal though.

[ghandi]

Hr department was very funny and random loved dancing in a very small office ,people passing files around, the actors, performers were hilarious and very into what they were doing , I liked the installations and the windows were very funny as well, I though however that the little venues were all a bit samey in terms of each one playing deep house,i though they could have changed musical tack a bit with each one. I though it was very very busy to the point of oversaturation on the Friday night when we went.

[monkey1989]

Massive improvement on last year ! Remember this scary looking tattooed man was standing there and we looking at him like curious what is doing just there , and then he gestered with his head to walk past him so he pushed a fake wall went through another door and it was pure heavy metal in a tiny bar all decorated

[CaledonianGonzo]

Only me that doesn't think it was that different to last year.....?

[Johnny Appleseed]

Didn't think Shangri La was great this year at all. The small mazes and corridors seemed to have disappeared for a much more regimented space. The outdoor dance areas were too open and the political artwork etc was too organised, especially with each one have a white plaque next to each bit of artwork explaining what it was and by whom. Thought the red walls around it just made it all seem to clincal, like you were walking through a museum rather than being part of it all

[willutalk]

I think I did SL wrong... I went every time on my own, so I struggled a bit to do anything other than just wander round and look at things. I think that if I was with a mate, I'd have enjoyed it a lot more, because I'd have had someone to enjoy it with.