Shangri-La unveils new venue info for Glastonbury Festival

Shangri-La, part of the late night South East 'naughty corner' of Glastonbury Festival have revealed, (here), more information and a little video to get people in the mood and introduce the 2013 concept as it transforms with a new series of shows, a new set, new venues and and a new theme 'Shangri-la Afterlife'.

Shangri-la is an all night after-hours part of the Festival, an immersive wonderland of brilliant and bizarre delights created by a team of 1500 contributors. The area is transformed into "a unique multisensory landscape featuring cutting edge creativity, mind boggling performance and an epic lineup that will keep you inspired all night long."

Creative Director Debs Armstrong explained, "We turn the entire field into a living breathing film-set populated with characters, creations and ultimately, the audience."

The Shangri-La team produce a narrative and set that develops each year of the Festival, and inviting Festivalgoers to involve themselves in the overarching plot of their experiential surroundings. 2008-2011 saw the rise and fall of a Blade Runner style pleasure city, the story leading towards 2011's epic pre-apocalyptic show. 2012 may have been a year off for Glastonbury but the Shangri-La story continued, concluding they revealed in a Mayan-predicted total apocalypse. 2013 will see Shangri-la return with an all new creative theme for the next 4 year series of its story; 'The Afterlife'.

Shangri-La, have released the following short introduction film:



This year once Festivalgoers enter the Shangri-la Afterlife there's no saying what their fate might hold. They could stumble across a secret headline performance at the epic open air 'Hell Stage', blag their way into Heaven to drink divine cocktails in the 'Garden of Eaden', rub shoulders with a pole dancing angel in 'The Temple of the Blessed Snakepit' or wander wide eyed through the winding alleys of the 'Seven Circles of Hell'. The choice of delectably perverse and exquisite experiences is limitless in the sh-Afterlife.

Here's a quick guide to a few of those new venues:

The Hell Stage
A circle built of black gothic shards and brimmed with raging flames, the best of The Hub and Club Dada's epic programming and the worst of hell-fire damnation combine to create their new Hell Stage arena.

This is the place for whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters and those who have swamped festival culture in corporate hypocrisy… All shall have their part in the rave which burneth with fire and brimstone, and they shall have no rest day nor night, they who worship the DJ.

The Seven Circles of Hell
Shangri-La's famous Alleys are redesigned this year around a Dante's Inferno journey through the seven circles of Hell, creating a maze of contemporary sins and punishments.

The souls inhabiting the Seven Circles of Hell are prone to acting out their sinful desires in open hedonistic displays throughout the alleys - and they have no qualms about forcefully including anyone within sight. In these alleys there is no law but perversity, and absolutely anything goes.

Heaven
Featuring The Waiting Rooms, The Heavenly Lounge, Temple of The Blessed Snake Pit and The Garden of Eaden
Shangri-La Heaven is a 'higher place', top of the hierarchy of desirable places but difficult to get into. It is as a paradise, especially in contrast to Hell.

Only the good go to heaven, but how do you get through those pearly gates? You can't... through 'The Waiting Room' officious Admin Angels will process you at 'The Desk of Judgment'. These angels and their precious gold wristbands may be elusive, so maybe you can try to win, buy, blag or con your way in...

Once you've secured your ultimate VIP pass, take off your welly-boots, get cleaned and glittered at one of the booths and enjoy the luxury inside our Heavenly Lounge. At the center of Heaven is the Garden of Eaden, where the angelic elite are chosen to drink from the waterfall bar, lounge on luxury beds and experience the mythical surprises inside.

In keeping with Glastonbury's famed clandestine style, much of the line-up for what's on here is kept strictly under wraps, late night festival legends Continental Drifts promise to deliver an eclectic array of celestial live acts and DJs throughout the weekend. Line-up highlights are expected to be released shortly.

Tickets have sold out for this summer's Glastonbury Festival which Wednesday 26th June until Monday 1st July 2013 across over a 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset.

Ticket buyers must pay their balance payments before 11.59pm (BST) on Monday 8th April with balances either paid online click here or on the booking line: 0844 412 4635.

The balance due is £155 (plus a £5 booking fee) per person; plus a £6 transaction fee per order. Whilst paying balances there's the option of booking ticket cancellation cover, car park tickets, campervan tickets and tipis, as well as the option to book coach travel from a number of UK cities, and pre-erected offsite accommodation at Worthy View.

Those balances not paid by Monday 8th April will be cancelled and a £40 refund per ticket returned to the card that was used during the booking. A £10 admin fee will be retained.

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Acts confirmed for the Festival include The Rolling Stones, Mumford & Sons, Arctic Monkeys, Dizzee Rascal, Primal Scream, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Vampire Weekend, Elvis Costello, Portishead, Chase & Status, The xx, Foals, Example, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alt-J, Two Door Cinema Club, Public Image Ltd. (PiL), Tame Impala, Alabama Shakes, Editors, Chic Ft. Nile Rodgers, Public Enemy, The Weeknd, Seasick Steve, Major Lazer, Tom Tom Club, Maverick Sabre, Lianne La Havas, Crystal Castles, Hurts, Phoenix, Bastille, Everything Everything, James Blake, Johnny Marr, The Courteeners, Jessie Ware, Cat Power, The Horrors, Fuck Buttons, Django Django, Rodriguez, Dinosaur Jr, Calexico, Steve Mason, Palma Violets, Devandra Banhat, Michael Kiwanuka, Steve Winwood, Sinead O' Connor, Lucinda Williams, Glen Hansard, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, Gabrielle Aplin, The Proclaimers, Martha Wainwright, Seth Lakeman, KT Tunstall, Ben Caplan, Beverley Knight, Crowns, Evan Dando, Gary Clark Jr, JJ Grey & Mofro, Josh Doyle, Lucy Rose, Mad Dog Mcrea, Molotov Jukebox, Newton Faulkner, Oysterband, Penguin Cafe, Shooglenifty, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, Slim Chance, Simian Mobile Disco, Terakaft, System 7 vs Eat Static, Don Letts, Nas, Disclosure, Hot Natured, David Rodigan, Sub Focus, AlunaGeorge, Eats Everything, Rudimental, The Congos, and Malian singer Rokia Traore. And loads more to be announced across over 100 stages.

To see the line-up in full, along with the latest rumours for some of the other stages, click here >>.

Everyone aged over 12 on Wednesday 26th June 2013 (when the Festival starts) who plans to the come the Festival, must register. Children aged 12 and under do not require tickets and do not need to register.

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Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2013.

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Resales of unwanted tickets will take place on Sunday 21st April 2013, for those who have registered beforehand so that they are eligible to buy a ticket.

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