Glastonbury Festival's Shangri-La reveals a new story for 2015

Glastonbury Festival 2015

Wednesday 24th to Sunday 28th June 2015
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£220 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 198,000

Shangri-La, part of the late night South East 'naughty corner' of Glastonbury Festival have revealed that 2015 is the year of the Shang Re-election and they want to know what YOU would do better. This year’s story aims to help people connect with the political process and demonstrate that politics can be for them and by them.

It’s 2015 and in reality there are seven political leaders and not a safe pair of hands among them, but in Shangri-La they create their own reality.

Shangri-La is an area that's one massive immersive installation, a vast interactive fictional world brought to life by a creative team of over 1,500 crew, performers and artists. It is an entire realm to explore, with layer upon layer of creativity.

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.

This year is the third of the The Shafterlife story arc featuring the idea of heaven and hell with contemporary sins and salvations. In 2014 Shangri-Hell became a corporation, the source of power behind all of the world’s most corrupt and cynically profiteering elite. After the flinchingly realistic horrors of last year's Corporate Hell, this year Shangri-Hell has been occupied.

Every office has been taken over by some of the 99% desperate for change. Each Nano-venue has become a political party, and everyone here has a point to make. There is nothing too silly or too serious to be said, there is only the process of activism, the skies filled with banners, the streets packed with protesters and placards.

Shangri-Heaven is a sanctuary for all those who refuse to dance the political hokey-cokey of the Shang Re-election. The people of Shangri-Heaven, have made their own paradise simply by believing that they could and then getting on with it.

Shangri-La invites everyone to stand up for what they believe in by sharing their message for change. If you post your message online we will incorporate it into the many placards, banners and letters of hopes and dreams that form part of the Shangri-La installation at Glastonbury Festival.

@ShangriLaGlasto #Shangrilaglasto #Shangreelection #Sholitics

Both Heaven and Hell have an abundant array of mind expanding and dance inspiring entertainment on offer from 6pm ‘til 5am daily. You can stomp the night away at the epic open air Hell stage, relax inside the tranquil gardens of Heaven or disappear in the hexagonal maze of Nano venues, each offering a unique experience to explore.

Due to its overwhelming popularity, attendees are advised to experience Shangri-La early in the evening in order to avoid the crowds after midnight.

Stay tuned for further news on line-up additions, art installations, Nano venues and more from the Shang Re-election.

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, a few names have been released already including the possible appearance of Annie Nightingale, J.E.S.&S (Jack Master, Eats Everything, Skream & Seth Troxler), London Elektricity, Neneh Cherry, and The Skints.

Acts confirmed so far include Friday headliner Foo Fighters, and Saturday headliner Kanye West, with Father John Misty, Courtney Barnett, Lionel Richie, Patti Smith & her band, Florence + The Machine, Pharrell Williams, Alt-J, Motorhead, Mary J Blige, Alabama Shakes, Paloma Faith, The Waterboys, The Fall, George Ezra, Rudimental, Deadmau5, The Vaccines, The Maccabees, Suede, The Chemical Brothers (live), Belle & Sebastian, Clean Bandit, Jungle, Jamie XX, Gregory Porter, Super Furry Animals, Jon Hopkins, Sharon Van Etten, Kate Tempest, Wolf Alice, Perfume Genius, Fat White Family, La Roux, Death Cab For Cutie, Kasai Allstars, FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks), Modestep, Circa Waves, Peace, Young Fathers, The Moody Blues, Chronixx, Mavis Staples, FKA Twigs, Caribou, Goat, Future Islands, Run the Jewels, Hot Chip, Flying Lotus, Azealia Banks, Todd Terje, Ryan Adams, Spiritualized, Roy Ayers, The Mothership Returns: George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic & The Family Stone, Jamie T, Ben Howard, Mark Ronson, Ibeyi, Rae Morris, Enter Shikari, Lianne La Havas, Jessie Ware, Death From Above 1979, Years And Years, Sleaford Mods, Charli XCX, The Pop Group, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Ella Eyre, Hozier, and the entrants for the Emerging Talent competition Declan McKenna, Shields, K.O.G & the Zongo Brigade, MoD, Princess Slayer, Lucy Kitchen, Isaac Lee-Kronick, and Jakl.

This year's sold out Glastonbury Festival runs for five full days from Wednesday 24th until Sunday 28th June 2015 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset.

As ever, entry includes a free programme. Once again, the Festival will be raising more than £2 million in funds for Oxfam, Wateraid, Greenpeace and and hundreds of other worthy causes, both local and international.

The full complete line-up will not be announced until next month. Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

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 2015 rumours, updated as we receive information.

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