With one week until Glastonbury 2014, those who were lucky enough to grab a ticket will be giddy with excitement and anticipation of the greatest weekend of the year.
As you can imagine, the site at Worthy Farm is a hive of activity in expectancy of the 150,000 guests which will start arriving on Wednesday And with acts such as Metallica, Kasabian, Dolly Parton, Jack White, Arcade Fire and more due to perform, this could be the best year yet.
However, for those who want to take a break from the main stage music and are eager to immerse themselves in the full Glasto experience, then the enigmatic, mind-bending Shangri-La is a must. For those not in the know – and if you’ve got a ticket you should be – Shangri-La is the after-hours epicentre of Glastonbury, the heartbeat of the festival. A vast, interactive fictional world sparked into life by a team of over 1,500 creatives, performers and artists, Shangri-La is known for its uniqueness, creative excellence and fine attention to detail.
An entire world to become lost within, Shangri-La is a sensory overload that has the aesthetic of a film set designed around a specific storyline every year. With a narrative that pins everything together, Shangri-La was created in 2009 as a pleasure city built by a corrupt administration who were hell-bent on a regime of unrelenting fun. Having evolved through a rebel overthrow, a deadly virus and a failed colonisation, Shangri-La now enters The Shafterlife – a story of the dream-like virtues and unspeakable malevolence of heaven and hell.
An indescribable experience, one that you’ll have to witness for yourself, Shangri-La is a bizarre, hedonistic 24-hour debauched universe which you’ll never forget.