new Shangri La late night area at Glastonbury

It's been announced that the replacement late-night area for Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival is to be called Shangri La.

Covering over 40 acres - three large fields - Shangri-La will encompass 12 separate stages and many other surprise attractions. It will be licenced until 6am over both the Friday and Saturday nights of the Festival.

Central to Shangri-La will be a traditional village green, complete with sideshows. The full musical line-up will be revealed, alongside the rest of the main festival acts, at the beginning of June.

"This is a new venture, on a par with the launch of the Park last year, and I'm really excited about it," says Festival organiser Michael Eavis. "These are the fields that started off as Wango Riley's, back in the old travellers' days. They've got history, character and a great track record. As always we are continuing to improve and expand, and we're expecting this area to provide even more fun. I can promise it'll be 100 per cent better!"

eFestivals is aware that the music will be programmed by the same people who ran the music side of Lost Vagueness, Continental Drifts. It's also likely to feature 'Bassline Circus' who mix high wire antics with twisted street theatre and digital music, and by the Joe Strummer Memorial Stone there is to be a new 'Strummerville Stage'.

One of the area's creative directors, Debs Armstrong, who was a co-owner of the Lost Vagueness brand along with Roy Gurvitz until they parted company in 2006, told the Guardian (here) that Shangri La will return the Festival to the spirit of its original 1970s incarnation.

Armstrong said that it would contain "all the wonderful world of things that you can do when you don't have to do burlesque any more. Lost Vagueness was a wonderful thing, but I think we were all getting a bit tired of burlesque a few years ago." Shangri La will contain contributions from many of the people who used to work within Lost Vagueness, Armstrong said. "What we don't want to do is create another megabrand with one central planner."

It's thought that Glastonbury's other much newer late-night area Trash City, which was situated more centrally within the site in the performance fields in 2007 will be moving nearby for 2008, making this corner of the massive festival site a great late-night party area.


Glastonbury Festival 2008 takes place at Worthy Farm, Pilton over the weekend of Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June. Registration to be eligible to buy a ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2008 is open until midnight on Friday 14th March. To register online, click here.

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