Glade Festival
Glade Festival was an electronic dance music festival, founded by Nick Ladd and Ans Guise, which originally started out as Glastonbury Festival's Glade Stage, which was established by Luke Piper and Mark Parsons who also became founding partners in Glade Festival itself. Exeter breakbeat promotor Biff Mitchell also played an important role in the event's development. The annual festival took place for the first time over four days in the summer of 2004, attracting 22,500 people by 2007. The festival's home for the first five years was the Wasing Estate, in Berkshire. In 2009 it was held in Winchester, and in 2011 and 2012 its location was at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. The festival was cancelled in 2013, it did not reappear as was planned in 2014.
Glade Festival originated from the Glade arena started at Glastonbury kicking off in its verdent surroundings with emerging artists DJ Sensor & MC Feedback hosting a day of the sound of the time; Drum & Bass. Since becoming a festival in its own right in 2004 it went on to be regarded as the premier electronic music event in the UK, winning the UK Festival Awards ' Best Dance Festival ' in 2008. Described by many as 'Glastonbury for dance music fans' the Glade carved a niche in the UK dance scene by combining highly credible music with impressive art installations, circus, cabaret, a healing area and high quality sound systems, which was a groundbreaking concept at the time.
