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Get In to Glade Festival For Free

• 24th Mar 2010

Glade Festival can confirm that they will be allowing festival goers in for free to this year’s event if they parachute in, provided they are dressed as Elvis wearing a sound system strapped to their back and hit the ground dancing.

Glade takes place 15th – 18th July 2010 at Matterley Bowl, Winchester and features Orbital, Tricky, Simian Mobile Disco, Jeff Mills, Green Velvet and more.

The parachute story is all over the blogosphere and was mentioned by Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 2 following a post Glade Festival Director Nick Ladd made on the Glade website and Twitter. Nick had agreed to a friend’s request to parachute in free of charge for charity if he agreed to some strict terms.

“A mate of mine who is into sky diving asked me, 'If me and some friends did a charity sky dive into Glade would we get in for free?'”

“I thought it was only fair that we threw this open to all comers and added in some stipulations. It’s worth mentioning that the 50ft high flame that comes out the top of the Arcadia Stage is probably worth avoiding!”

There will be a designated landing area for parachutists – details will be released soon.

Now entering its seventh year, Glade has been described as ‘Like Glastonbury for electronic music lovers’ as it continues to evolve as a unique hybrid between a rave and a fully fledged English festival.