Glade festival announces Booka Shade, and Squarepusher

Booka Shade, Squarepusher, Freeland, and Juan Atkins lead the line-up of acts announced for this year's Glade festival.

Joining the previously announced Underworld on the Glade Stage are Booka Shade, Squarepusher, Freeland (aka Adam Freeland), The Japanese Popstars, The Qemists, The Bays featuring Beardyman, Dub Pistols, Losers, The Egg, Femi Kuti, Nitin Sawhney, Finley Quaye, Atomic Drop, Ben & Lex, and Pathaan.

The Vapor Stage has announced Juan Atkins making a UK exclusive appearance, Dave Clarke, Adam Beyer, Mutant Clan (Timo Maas & Santos), Jim Masters, and Digital Mystikz.

The new Avalon Field which will host the Healing Field, InSpiral Chillout, Liquid Tent, and The Origin Stage.

The InSpiral Chillout's line-up includes live shows from Spoonbill, Waterjuice, Antonio Testa, Hibernation, Ishq, Kuba Live Band (feat Brother Culture), RND (feat MC Mikey Murka), Slackbaba, Aruba Red, Milli Moonstone, and Halogen.

The DJ line-up for InSpiral Chillout will include Pathaan, Ashtech, Pieman, DJ High, Elektra, Meeq, Nanda, Kuba, Spoonbill, Liquid Djems, Dom Spiral, Naked Nick, Aliji, Giani, Zak, Aviva, Ipcriss, Darmon, Tragic Loungabouts, Fluid, and Elfish.

The Liquid Stage plays host to Ajja, Archaic, Beatnik, Blind Roller, Chameleon, Dick Trevor, Dimitri, Disco Of Doom, Earthling vs Chromotone, Everblast, Far Too Loud, Geo, Hexadecimal, Jeremy, Khainz, Lucas, Luke Porter, Lurk, Moon, Morph, Nagual Sound Experiment, Sensient, Slater, and Tom Real.

The Origin Stage will play host to Antix, Perfect Stranger, Tristan, Kasey Taylor, and Paul Taylor.

The Interstella Cabaret will have Los Albertos, Orkestra del Sol, Tragic Roundabout, Gadjo, The Correspondents, and Swing Zazou.

The biggest tent in Carmageddon will be Boom Town hosted on Friday by Breaksday, Saturday by Overkill, and on Sunday by Fabric Dubsteppers, Dublime, and Tayo's Cool & Deadly. The first acts for the Sunday line-up have been announced and include Rusko, Starkey, and Tayo.

Also in Carmageddon is the Overkill Stage which will showcase Venetian Snares, Limewax, Kid606, Hudson Mohawke, Time Exile, Duran Duran Duran, Monster Zoku Onsomb!, and Tomb Crew.

Concluding the raft of acts announced today are those playing the big bar and dancefloor of The Brakedown hosted by Functional Records, NuSkool Breaks and Jay Cunning they include Zinc, Plump Djs, Krafty Kuts, Rennie Pilgrem & Chickaboo, Deekline & Wizard, Baobinga and I.D., Annie Nightingale, Koma and Bones, A Skillz & Beardyman, Afghan Headspin, and The Wrongstars.

Now in it's sixth year the Glade will be held in a new location which means the music will be running much later, with both the big production stages kicking it until early morning as well as an increased emphasis on smaller, more intimate venues also running late, giving Glade Festival its unique free party feeling that first made it famous at Glastonbury.

The details of the site will only be revealed to ticket holders, with the capacity capped at 12,500 again this year, and it will be held at a new secret location. Expect full camping facilities, car park, licensed bars open until late, food stalls and markets, and more besides.

Tickets are on sale, the full price is £125. Student Tickets are available until the end of March 2009. There is also a £50 deposit per ticket option with the balance paid in March 2009. The Glade will have a separate queue where each ticket holder will have to show Student ID. Without an ID the balance of £26 will have to be paid. Camper Van Tickets are available at a price of £45.

To buy tickets click here.

The organisers are determined to stop touting, so a name and address must be supplied for each ticketholder, and ID will be required at the gate.

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