Organisers of the lovely Glade Festival have told VirtualFestivals.com that they may move the site of their 2006 festival after a number of fence-hoppers infiltrated this year's event earlier this month. Glade organisers, who also stage the Glade zone at the Glastonbury Festival of course, have said they are currently considering three sites for next year.
A spokesman told VirtualFestivals.com: "When we launched Glade last year it was secretly located and people only found out where it was the week before. As it was in the same place this year, we had a bit of a problem because people already knew it. I think when some ticket holders got to the festival they were ringing their mates and telling them they'd be able to get in without paying because they remembered from last year that the security wasn't very tight."
Glade is a proudly unsponsored event, but the lack of sponsorship income does mean a large-scale security operation, like that which stopped fence hopping at Glastonbury, is not possible. However organisers hope a new site and some inexpensive security refinements will help overcome fence hopping next year. The spokesman continued: "Our fencing is not the best in the world and we attracted a lot of gate-crashers. We managed to catch quite a few but we were aware that there were some who had successfully broken into the festival. Security measures will continue to be improved for next year and to avoid gatecrashers we want to move to another site."