Glastonbury's Trash City

Glastonbury Festival is to have a new area - called Trash City - which is to be sited in the Circus & Theatre fields.

Setting the scene is Mutoid Waste Co. - legendary anarcho art and party collective and originators of the warehouse party, creating their own brand of megalithic sculptural madness across the globe since the mid 80’s. What can people expect from Trash City? Ruby Blues, creative director says "Trash City is an intergalactic red-light district straight from the pages of a 2000AD comic, where space pirates, bootleggers, illegal aliens and all the scum of the universe can come to party the night away!"

Trash City will include:

• Mutoid Waste Co. plus guest artists will be unveiling their new giant animatronic robot zoo and staging nightly cruise car parades along with their sculptures and giant interactive venues, featuring work by Mutoid Waste founder and Trash City art director Joe Rush.

• The Flaming Love Palace; a biker bar featuring music acts and punk-rock performance including a troupe of pole-dancing en pointe ballerinas and hosted by Neo-Burlesque superstar and Trash City producer Ruby Blues and her posse of ass-kicking bounty-hunting belles; CanBootyCan. With artwork by Sam Haggerty & SnugOne.

• The NYC DownLow Co-produced by Horsemeat Disco; the UK’s no.1 Gay club night, who will be presenting a homage to the Drag clubs of late 70’s New York with nightly cabaret and lip-synching competitions from East London Drag cartel The House Of Egypt.

• Rocket Rays: led by the ever imaginative Phil Armstrong who could previously be found at The Deluxe Diner at Lost Vagueness, is a new venture - Rocket Rays. A living sculpture and venue all rolled into one, it brings together the creative talents behind The Diner, Mutoid Waste Co. and The Laundrettas. It will still be nice and homely with great homemade food, a rocking bar, some table-dancing, and brilliant tunes - their previous work was a warm favourite amongst all kinds of Glastonbury revellers. Rocket Rays is due to take off on Wednesday and will be flying for 24hrs a day till Monday.

• The CarnEvil District of Trash City is the Carni-themed corner of the field - Marvel at unbelievable feats of skill onboard The Pyrette Ship outdoor stage, be astounded by the unnatural acts of The Fire-Tusk Pain-Proof Circus featuring Fetish Queen Lucifire and gasp in wonder at the denizens of the Gawk-a-Gogo freak show.

• The Black Poppy: A pagoda-style opium bordello - a sensual den of iniquity with weird and wonderful performance, music and poetry from the UK Fringe circuit and hosted by Dusty Limits from the lofty heights of his gilded Cock Throne. Performing will be NYC sensation Taylor Mac.

• Bassline Circus will be presenting the best of UK home-grown urban circus in their nightly show Advertigo; a multi-media extravaganza of live break-beats, digital image, street-arts and performance to blow your perception of ‘circus’ away. Includes an original score and vocals by Neneh Cherry.


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Glastonbury Festival will take place at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th June (with the gates opening on the Wednesday).

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