Back for its fourth year this summer, the Dance Village is a party-within-a-party that caters for everything 'dance' at Glastonbury Festival. With six venues, myriad food stalls, vendors and plenty of other entertainments the area has a capacity of some 20,000 people and runs practically non-stop from Thursday evening until Monday morning.
After a prolonged wait this year, the full Dance Village line-up is now available featuring more than 200 acts. Ranging from disco (Futureboogie – Dance Lounge, Thursday) to dubstep (Skream & Benga – West Dance, Friday), from speed garage (MJ Cole – G Stage, Sunday) to salsa (La Excelencia – Pussy Parlure, Sunday), the Dance Village truly does reflect everything that is 'dance' music in the 21st Century.
Highlights across the weekend include live-sets from Calvin Harris (East Dance, Sunday), Peaches (West Dance, Sunday), Deadmau5 (East Dance, Saturday), Easy Star All Stars (East Dance, Friday) and electro-pop sensation La Roux (East Dance, Saturday). Whilst DJs include Erol Alkan (West Dance, Friday), 2 Many DJs (East Dance, Saturday), Chase & Status (G Stage, Sunday), Josh Wink (West Dance, Saturday) and Timo Maas (West Dance, Saturday).
Silent Disco will be running every night from Thursday with big-name acts such as Appleblim and Jim Masters. They'll also be handing out 3D glasses for the eye-popping graphics of 3D Disco, sure to keep the all-night party animals entertained.
Dance Village programmers have themed segments amongst the eclectic line-up. Bristol Rise Up! sees members of Bristol's dub and bass-heavy old-guard (Smith & Mighty, Dub From Atlantis…) joined by the new elite of the dubstep scene (Joker, Pinch, Peverelist…). Other groupings come in the form of the Bugged Out! take-over of West Dance on Friday, and Wall of Sound's Sunday evening in Dance Lounge marking the label's 15th birthday celebration (Infidels, Ocelot, Lottie, MPHO, Reverend and the Makers).
Full 2009 Line-up:
Annie Nightingale
Altern-8
Jamie Jones
General Midi
Paul Arnold
Billy Nasty
Mystery Jets
Qemists
Jim Masters
Futureboogie
Unabombers
Beardyman
Raffertie
E-17 (Live)
Afghan Headspin
The Kleptones
Adsorb
Ella Chi
Herne
Vent
Groove Diggerz
Ben & Lex
Silent Disco DJs
Novak 3D Disco
David Guetta
Erol Alkan
Crookers
The Whip (Live)
Freeland (Live)
Annie Mac
SLAM
Ben Simms
Layo & Bushwacka
Billy Nasty
Skream & Benga
WhoMadeWho (Live)
Easy Star All Stars (Live)
Iration Steppas featuring Mark Iration
Dreadzone (Live)
Joseph Goddard (Hot Chip)
Tom Middleton
The Nextmen featuring Yungun
Chip Munk (Live)
Crazy P (Live)
Leeroy Thornhill
Matthew Jonson
Deepgroove
The Egg (Live)
Paul Woolford
Nathan Detroit
Giorgio Gatti Vs Edoardo Marvaso
Geezer
Ans
Dhr Robijn
The Cosmonauts
Amanda Blank (Live)
Circlesquare
Hypnotik Brass Ensemble (Live)
Jalapeno Sound System feat Smaak N Kraak
Salsa Club featuring The Elephants (Live)
Swap-A-Rama
Burn The Negative (Live)
Outlaws
Razzmattazz
Peyoti For Presidents (Live)
Astroboy
Speech Debelle and The Therapist (Live)
Vladimir Steamboat (Live)
Jodie Harsh
Will Vegas
Randy & Earls Old Record Club
Silent Disco
Novak 3D Disco
Quiver
Urban Knights
Steven Guts 2 Many DJs
Deadmau5 (Live)
Josh Wink
Pete Tong
La Roux (Live)
DJ Yoda (Live)
DJ Food
Wiley
The Qemists (Live)
Timo Maas
The Japanese Popstars (Live)
Tinchy Strider (Live)
Eric Prydz
Heartbreak (Live)
Scratch Perverts
Tom Middleton
Krafty Kuts
Zinc
Aquasky
Atomic Hooligan
Commix
Rye Rye (Live)
DJ Missill
Goldie Lookin Chain (DJ)
Calvin Harris (DJ)
Mr Nice
Maxfield (Live)
Ironik
Hudson Mohawke (Live)
NAPT
Danny Howells
The Emperor Machine (Live)
We Have Band (Live)
Jam The Channel DJs
Ezra Bang & Hot Machine (Live)
Wonderful Courteous Gentlemen (Live)
The Part Time Heroes
Boy Crisis (Live)
Evil Genius
Jon Hopkins (Live)
Lekiddo – Lord Of The Lobsters (Live)
DJ Bunjy
Lack Of Afro (Live)
Miss B
Salsa Club featuring The Alex Wilson Salsa Power Orchestra (Live)
We Don't Play
Baby Charles
Craig Charles (Live)
Nerm & D-Code
Bourbon Warfare DJs
The Parlure Cabaret
Mellow Star (Live)
Infinite Scale
Marshall Hackett
Silent Disco
Novak 3D Disco Calvin Harris (Live)
Peaches (Live)
Mr Scruff
VV Brown (Live)
Jodie Harsh
Beat Torrent (Live)
Rob Da Bank
Frankmusik (Live)
FreQ Nasty
Dirty Vegas (Live)
Quiver
Filthy Dukes (Live)
Wonky Pop DJs
Kissy Sellout (Live)
Don Diablo
Goldfish (Live)
Ou Est (Live)
Chris Coco
Chase & Status
High Contrast
London Elektricity
MJ Cole
Shut Up & Dance
Caspa
N Type
All Hands On Decks
Infadels
Ocelot
Lottie
MPHO (Live)
Reverend And The Makers
Mark Jones
Stuart Wilkinson
Transformer (Live)
Cybrerfunk All Stars
Eveson
Bridgewater Reggae Soundsystem
Appleblim
Cheba
Dave Seaman
Bristol Rise Up! Featuring:
Joker & Nomad
Pinch& Peverelist
RSD
Smith & Mighty
Henry Louis featuring Jamo
DR Gaffa
Dub From Atlantis
DubFX (Live)
DubKasm (Live)
N.U.M.B (Live)
Sub-Universe
Salsa Club Featuring La Excelencia (Live)
Electric Ballroom
Rock Idol (Live)
The Parlure Caberat My Toys Like Me (Live)
Take It 2 The Bridge
The Bee's Knees
DJ Badly
Silent Disco
Novak 3D Disco