Glade Festival - thoughts?

milanese · Post by **milanese** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:37 am

easy, don't jump down the guy's throat for trying something different, or not doing what you expected.

i had a well good time at glade and saw good sets from many people, some of the techno and more leftfield weirdness was great.

solo strike · Post by **solo strike** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:42 am

Nah don't get me wrong, love Starkey and really enjoyed that set

Was a bit surprised by the last tune but will always support artists wanting to try something different, maximum respect to him.

lil-tee · Post by **lil-tee** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:45 am

My thoughts? I wish I went.

And it pisses me off every time I see this thread come up.

abs · Post by **abs** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:48 am

Solo Strike wrote:Nah don't get me wrong, love Starkey and really enjoyed that set Was a bit surprised by the last tune but will always support artists wanting to try something different, maximum respect to him.

same, starkey played a beast of a set.. just wasn't feeling the last tune..

rusko on the other hand, we stayed to hear the first few minutes for a laugh but it just wasn't even funny..

rhea · Post by **rhea** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:54 am

Ital Tek was absolutely wicked as were Moderat - visuals blew me away

Shame about most of the DnB being absolutely shite and using the Vapour stage which is by far the sickest arena. Can they book some deeper dnb/jungle/j-tek artists next year please?

Enjoyed Pinch and DMZ, not seen the Vapour fill up so fast!

bunjcore · Post by **bunjcore** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:18 am

Absolutely loved the glade this yr

Producer stole the show for me tho

The bit of starkey I caught was class, Rusky was hactually pretty good I thought, seen him a few times recently where its just been wall to wall bangers but he balanced his set nicely with some chilled tunes and jungly rollers.
Dub Boy's set (the guy playin all the dancehall methinx) was a lot of fun.
This glade definitely reinvigorated my love of breakcore, it works so well as a festival music, first 20mins of Snares' set was proto jungle heaven, Bogdan was mint as well. Stivs was predictably mashin.
Underworld

Cant wait 2 go again next year

Forensics · Post by **Forensics** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:59 pm

BUNJCORE wrote:Dub Boy's set (the guy playin all the dancehall methinx) was a lot of fun.

It was a lot of fun. I was "mc'ing" for his set actually! The whole
Ruffnek session was a blast. Quality weekend in general too.....

fletcher · Post by **fletcher** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:51 pm

Amazing weekend once again! (copy and paste my review from another forum....)

Another top glade festival, definitely thumbs up on the new venue. We were camped at the far back near ID Spiral. Bit of a mission carting all the gazebo etc. down there but was worth it really

Pro's
Boom Town thursday night, Ben & Lex's "cheeky rave" - was great fun in there, had some great laughs.
MODERAT - oustanding. I love the album (and the DVD) and their live show was really special. You can tell the music they make is really thoughtful and all their respective creative minds have come up with a classic.
Digital Mystiks - great set! Best dubstep of the weekend. Generally vapour was an awesome tent for Bloc both nights, Carl Craig was wicked too.
Underworld - seen them live 4 times now and that was a very good show. That last tune "moaner" is an absolute monster. Also there was a couple of new tracks in there I didnt recognise, something about "vision", really liked that one. Amazing way to end the weekend.
Overkill - iTAL tEK, 5 hours of wrong music (although didnt think it was as wrong as previous years), shitmat playing "hit me with your gabba stick" lol, broken:note on friday night was amazing.
Also saw Freestylers and Beardyman on the main stage, great stuff. Im glad the white main stage is back. Think I also caught one of Phletch's main stage sets too.
Caught the commercial hippies on the origin stage - really enjoyed their set although it was straight after the saturday rain and was a bit squelchy.
All in all, the sound systems were incredible. Didnt hear a duff set all weekend.
Interstella was fun on sunday - the village disco provided plenty of laughs.
Good food once again, those pizza's were lush
Took hundreds of photos and some movies - will stick some in the gallery when i get the chance
Being camped with loads of wicked people once again made for some genius early morning moments

Con's
4 of our tents got robbed on thursday night

We reckon £460 in total was nicked. Nearly fucking spoiled the whole weekend but we rallied together and mad the most of it. John's phone and wallet were nicked so he cancelled the cards, phone and got his crime ref number for insurance, and reported it to the info stall. I had a phone call an hour later - phone handed in! Result. A couple of hours later - wallet handed in! Minus money of course. So dead phone and cards, but at least he had them back... everyone else just money nicked, and 2 people were in their tents at the time. Freaked out a couple of the girls camped with us.
I know a lot of people enjoyed the drum&bass on sunday, but everytime I went in their I thought it was pretty pants.
Mutant Clan - when I saw these guys had a 3 hour set I thought they would have done something very special but i dipped in and hour of it and it was the same every time - plod plod tech house with no feeling. Would have been a better off booking for the club tent late afternoon.
Really suffered sunday daytime from general lack of sleep - underworld perked me up though

So all in all, a great festival and once again Glade proves its still the UK's best.

killingtime · Post by **killingtime** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:11 am

fletcher wrote:Amazing weekend once again! (copy and paste my review from another forum....)

Another top glade festival, definitely thumbs up on the new venue. We were camped at the far back near ID Spiral. Bit of a mission carting all the gazebo etc. down there but was worth it really

Pro's
Boom Town thursday night, Ben & Lex's "cheeky rave" - was great fun in there, had some great laughs.
MODERAT - oustanding. I love the album (and the DVD) and their live show was really special. You can tell the music they make is really thoughtful and all their respective creative minds have come up with a classic.
Digital Mystiks - great set! Best dubstep of the weekend. Generally vapour was an awesome tent for Bloc both nights, Carl Craig was wicked too.
Underworld - seen them live 4 times now and that was a very good show. That last tune "moaner" is an absolute monster. Also there was a couple of new tracks in there I didnt recognise, something about "vision", really liked that one. Amazing way to end the weekend.
Overkill - iTAL tEK, 5 hours of wrong music (although didnt think it was as wrong as previous years), shitmat playing "hit me with your gabba stick" lol, broken:note on friday night was amazing.
Also saw Freestylers and Beardyman on the main stage, great stuff. Im glad the white main stage is back. Think I also caught one of Phletch's main stage sets too.
Caught the commercial hippies on the origin stage - really enjoyed their set although it was straight after the saturday rain and was a bit squelchy.
All in all, the sound systems were incredible. Didnt hear a duff set all weekend.
Interstella was fun on sunday - the village disco provided plenty of laughs.
Good food once again, those pizza's were lush
Took hundreds of photos and some movies - will stick some in the gallery when i get the chance
Being camped with loads of wicked people once again made for some genius early morning moments

Con's
4 of our tents got robbed on thursday night We reckon £460 in total was nicked. Nearly fucking spoiled the whole weekend but we rallied together and mad the most of it. John's phone and wallet were nicked so he cancelled the cards, phone and got his crime ref number for insurance, and reported it to the info stall. I had a phone call an hour later - phone handed in! Result. A couple of hours later - wallet handed in! Minus money of course. So dead phone and cards, but at least he had them back... everyone else just money nicked, and 2 people were in their tents at the time. Freaked out a couple of the girls camped with us.
I know a lot of people enjoyed the drum&bass on sunday, but everytime I went in their I thought it was pretty pants.
Mutant Clan - when I saw these guys had a 3 hour set I thought they would have done something very special but i dipped in and hour of it and it was the same every time - plod plod tech house with no feeling. Would have been a better off booking for the club tent late afternoon.
Really suffered sunday daytime from general lack of sleep - underworld perked me up though

So all in all, a great festival and once again Glade proves its still the UK's best.

to be honest your foolish for leaving anything worth anything in your tent! a tent is for sleeping in, not storing valuables! if id have left all my money in my tent and it got stolen, cheeez.... i'd have had to go on a criminal ting to get it all back!

once again i cant believe how many people at glade were lovin £20 a gram. the number of times people told me to fuck off, i told them to come back when they got desperate, and then as i walked off i heard them shouting for me to come back was hilarious, made my weekend (aside from reso's set)! some hippy was fuming as he gave in to paying £60 for 3, then his girlfriend asked for two for herself, hahahahaha. cher chinnnnnng!

dubloke · Post by **dubloke** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 11:50 am

no where near as bad as fletcher but i packed my pop up tent away (after about an hour of trying to figure it out) left it out side and went into my mates tent, when i came out some prick had nabbed it

oh well got another one that some had PURPOSEFULLY left behind

adam_misst · Post by **adam_misst** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:39 pm

So many people go there packed away tents knicked...whats that all about?!
Starkeys last tune was horrendous, sorry, but singing down a vocoder trying to sound like Kanye West just aint working for me! Dropped too many RnB bits for my liking too, really didn't rate him, although I've seen him before and thought he was great!?

notez_ · Post by **notez_** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:29 pm

Rhea wrote:Ital Tek was absolutely wicked as were Moderat - visuals blew me away

Shame about most of the DnB being absolutely shite and using the Vapour stage which is by far the sickest arena. Can they book some deeper dnb/jungle/j-tek artists next year please?

Enjoyed Pinch and DMZ, not seen the Vapour fill up so fast!

yea and its going to start attracting the wrong crowd. Big chill have the rright idea with Congo Natty..get Dextrous up there with ray kieth or something...that will be sick

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:36 pm

RagoJu wrote:
Abs wrote:
RagoJu wrote:Did Starkey actually mix or just mash up the faders and the eqs in his headphones.
i'm pretty sure he was mixing, can't remember.. i know it was good though, apart from that last tune where he sang.
Must have cleaned up his act since I last saw him in Melbourne, where he pretended to mix for a hour.

not really sure what you are talking about. i've never "pretended" to mix in my life.

brokedjs · Post by **brokedjs** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:47 pm

Just spent ages reading this tread and what a great post to end on!

starkey · Post by **starkey** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:20 pm

i can only speak about boomtown on sunday.... cuz i only flew in sunday morning. but that tent was smashing it all day.... reso, raffertie, dtl, benga, rusko, mumdance...... i really had a good time.

regarding the comments about my last track.... cool if u liked it and cool if u didn't. it has definitely gotten mixed reviews from the people who have heard it.... even close friends. some hate it... others love it. you'll never please everyone. it's something that just felt right when i was in the studio one day.

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:40 pm

Notez_ wrote:
killingtime wrote:yeah i boshed 1 of them right after callide to come up in the vapor stage, didnt do too much so boshed another during digi mystikz, ended up at arcadia a bit later with bare apocolyptic tribal shit goin on bare people dancin to techno with massive fire shit goin down was some good shit
I did exactly the same with some kangaroos...bad mistake

You had those Kangaroos too? Fuck, they were rough man.

They paralysed me for a good hour until the intensity of the rush faded away. Then I had like 4 shits in about an hour. Missed loads of stuff because of those damn things! No regrets though. Feckin' awesome weekend.

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