Glastonbury Festival Of Contemporary Performing Arts - Areas - Shangri-la

Now in its second year, Shangri-la is situated in the old Lost Vagueness area. These hallowed fields have always been considered to be a festival within the Festival - Shangri-la is all that and more. It's a place where we hold firm in the belief that the sun will shine, but we'll make sure it's wonderful whatever the weather.

The broad theme for 2009 was DYSCOTOPIA. We created a retro-futuristic citadel, a bladerunner inspired city of pleasures gone wrong: a mono-state of quarantined and enforced utopia. 

This was a self-proclaimed paradise run by an Administration that was dedicated to the unceasing pursuit of perfect, regime-sanctioned 24hr pleasure.

It was headed by a deeply corrupt local Mayor who watches from the walls:  The authorized entertainment mega-plex of Club Dada, the mega light shows of the Hub, the Hotel and Spa, the Café, Bar and Circus, but also those damned uncontrollable alleyways which contained all manner of human detritus, rave-scum and rebel nano-states (including The Badlands).

Like any town there were citizens and outlaws, those who followed the Administration and those who rebelled against it. But in the last days of this dying and spasmodic regime, the only question is, who will win?