The Common venues announced at Glastonbury Festival

This year's venues have been announced for The Common late night area of this year's Glastonbury Festival.

With a theme set somewhere between Mexico City and Salvador, The Common will be a mystical world, and "sumptuous Latino playground filled with the delights of a vibrant world of decadence. Home to twisted voodoo parlours, debauched bordellos and criminal party houses".

The Common will be located in the field where Arcadia was last year, with both venues swapping locations, and the venues include Zona Bassline, billed as "a vibrant neighbourhood brimming with music, Latino circus freaks and a street party vibe."

Festival regulars Bassline Circus have this year teamed up with FairTunes a UK-based charity that aims to harness the power of music to help disadvantaged communities at home and in developing countries around the world, Lyrix Organix and International humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to produce the Zona Bassline area. Blending the best from different corners of the music world; South American beats, Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Breaks, Reggae and instrumental Latin-inspired performers.

Offering a one hour cabaret every night with the finest circus and music performers, in what promises to be a dazzling show, kick-starting a feverish and delirious night in Zona Bassline's Big Top.

Much of FairTunes work is currently in Colombia where we have set up a central music studio in Bogota and a combined music and radio facility in the town of El Salado, a village recovering from massacres at the hands of paramilitary forces. They are also working with Sahawari refugees in Algeria where they are building a live studio and training in event production.

Last year at Glastonbury, FairTunes hosted one night at The Common where the mighty Systema Solar and Sofrito DJs filled the Igloo tent to capacity. This year Zona Circo Bassline will host them on Friday night and there will be an even bigger line-up with live shows from high profile Latin bands including guests from Colombia.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) will curate Bassline Circus on Friday for one very special night with names from Folk to Dubstep - including beatbox legend Shlomo, Jamie Woon, Ed Sheeran, True Tiger, and The Boxettes plus surprise guests - are coming together to show their support for Medecins Sans Frontieres who deliver emergency medical aid worldwide.

You can also find Medecins Sans Frontieres at a second venue, a groundbreaking new Interactive Haiti Earthquake Venue also in The Common. Set at the scene of the Haiti earthquake, and like nothing seen before from a charity at a UK festival. This innovative venue will tell the story of MSF's work on the frontline through interactive exhibitions, including an emergency operating theatre converted from a shipping container, cholera treatment centre, Haiti-inspired graffiti and photography exhibitions.

MSF's venue will explode into colour through potent poetry, revolutionist Hip Hop, spine-tingling folk and raw soul - plus music workshops and talks. Many of the UK's finest performers (including Ed Sheeran, Ghostpoet, and Abandoman) are coming together to support the charity that delivers emergency medical aid worldwide regardless of race, religion, politics or gender.

Also in The Common will be Copperdollar's The Back of Beyond, an immersive storytelling experience served up by a vibrant community of multi-media cross-platform artists offering a visual feast of Art, Music and Interactive Performance from ghostly Carny folk, a place to enter into the divinely bizarre. An eerie fairground full of temptation. Half dead, half alive, and inspired thematically by the Celtic festival Samhain and the Mexican Day of the Dead.

Behind the carnival facades will be The Photo Booth, and the hidden glamour of the party house of the local Savage Cartel offering an opulent after party that's a heady mix of dreams (and nightmares).

After debuting in The Common in 2010, the exhilarating Wall of Death is back, with a show performed inside an 18ft high cylindrical wall, around which performers ride on vintage Indian motorcycles. Spectators view the amazing daredevil stunts from a viewing platform at the top of the wall. The show is presented by Ken Fox, who is joined by his two sons, Luke and Alex, along with lady rider Kerri Cameron. A must see if you've not witnessed it before!

The Common will also play host to Buchinger's Boot Marionettes, a unique blend of puppetry techniques, circuit-bending soundtracks and beautifully disturbing images that's also a must see attraction. Performed by professional puppeteers in an 80 seater purpose built tent, 'Yaga's Fire' tells the legendary story of Baba Yaga, a terrifying figure from Slavic mythology and Russian Shamanism. Founded in 2004 by Patrick Sims and Mafalda Camera, Buchingerís Boot Marionettes - extraordinary award winning puppets are made from recycled materials including wood, metal, skin, bones, and glass.

La Arcada de Adavinos will also be hosted in The Common, a chance for Festivalgoers to discover their true destiny, with the fortune teller, or make Voodoo with the witch doctor, whilst La Arcada de Adavinos' hosts guide them around their eerie, enchanting and unique collection of automata from the around the globe.

The Common wouldn't be The Common without doffing it's cap to the Cuban revolution and this year The Lost Picture Show a crumbling cinema which has seen better days as a classical 1920s picture palace of overflowing luxury and not a little decadence, still offers opulent velvet seating, glittering chandeliers and a lavish cocktail lounge. Festivalgoers have the chance to step back in time, enjoy a film flavoured with overwrought romance, gun-slinging epics and revolutionary propaganda, whilst usherettes flit from table to table, offering popcorn, Habanos cigars and Mojitos. Viva la revolucion!

There's also the Los Artistas Bohemios, a sumptuous boudoir of a 19th Century Havana bordello, hang out for artists, revolutionaries, voodoo priests and other misfits. Each afternoon it offers Festivalgoers the chance to take part in life drawing classes with the bordelloís very own nude modelos de artistas. At night, there will be a chance join in the lively rum-soaked revelry where those who dare may disrobe and pose for our decadent artists to be forever immortalized on canvas.

And last, but by no means least, set amidst winding paths illuminated with the sound of Latino beats, in the heart of The Common, will be the Campo Pequeno, a towering bullring where spirits of matadors of past still linger. Hosted by Bearded Kitten it will be home to some big headline acts, and offer a fusion of Hispanic mayhem and astonishing performance spectacles. Festival goers are told to expect the unexpected, from the madness of Mexican wrestling and fire breathing bulls, a Portugues bullfighter fighting an artificial bull, and ludicrous games and The Common's very own 'La Tomatina'.

Talking, exclusively to eFestivals, about the Campo Pequeno, (here), Festival organiser Michael Eavis said, "We're expanding Arcadia, and we've got 'Campo Pequeno', a Portuguese Bullring, where they don't kill the bull, and it's more theatrical, it's in The Common and we're building it from lock gates, so we've got soundproofing from these lock gates from Devizes. It's going to be a hell of a venue, it's going to be fantastic. There will be all sorts of stuff that will be going on right through the night until 5am in the morning.

Sound proofing is really important, and I've got all these 10 inch thick lock gates from Wiltshire, where the water rises in Devizes, 100ft, and we've got 35 of the panels going around. It's absolutely pure magic, it's my fun thing for this year. We've got to do one new thing that's fun and exciting, and this is it for this year. They're sending the gates and I'm going to start putting it together, and cut some medieval doors into it, about 10 entrances, so it will have the same layout as a bull ring. It'll be running Thursday, to Sunday and it will have a lot of stuff going on in there, it'll be fantastic.."

If you can drag yourself away from that over the Festival's five days the Festival also offers some musical acts including U2, Coldplay, and Beyonce as Pyramid Stage headliners, plus Primal Scream, Mumford & Sons, Elbow, Everything Everything, Anna Calvi, BB King, Big Boi, The Chemical Brothers, Crystal Castles, Friendly Fires, Fleet Foxes, Gruff Rhys, James Blake, Janelle Monae, Laura Marling, Warpaint, Treetop Flyers, My Tiger My Timing, Emily and the Woods, My First Tooth, Twin Brother, Louise and the Pins, Tristram, J-Treole, and London Afrobeat Collective. No other acts are confirmed yet for the Festival, although as usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2011 rumours, updated as we receive information.

A further release of a limited number of cancelled tickets, will go on sale from 9am on Sunday 17th April 2011, although in order to do so you must have registered beforehand to be eligible to buy a ticket. However, it's unlikely that they'll be a huge number of tickets available on that day. They will be priced at £195 (plus a booking fee of £5).

For more details about registering and ticket information click here.

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