4, 5 September 2004
Lewes, Sussex (England!)

Fresh from Glastonbury, this 24-hour festival looks like a great event which some friends of some friends of mine are organising. So, if you happen to be near Brighton in England at the beginning of September... Check out the website (especially the photos) www.lostvagueness.com

Within the outlandish cosmos of Glastonbury Festival was born a world, an illuminated field of bizarre zones and happenings where the most memorable myths and surreal stories are born. Over the years, Lost Vagueness has picked up a reputation for being the most anarchic and culturally twisted location at the festival, where performers and guests languish together in the warped decadence of the surroundings.

Lost Vagueness is remarkable in that it has literally evolved from pallets to a palace, in an evolution spanning over18 years.

A brief history of Lost Vagueness at Glastonbury Festival

The precursor to “Lost Vagueness” was a series of small surreptitious venues, hidden away in the madness of Glastonbury Festival and going back as far as 1986.

Lost Vagueness the casino was born in 1998, as a theatrical human backdrop to a small cabaret venue, visible only through glass behind the bar.

In the year 2000, people were astonished to stumble across a full casino, ballroom and restaurant, where you had to be dressed in evening-wear. This was in stark contrast to the muddy wastelands of the rest of site that year.

In 2002 we presented Casino, Ballroom, Roller-Disco, Changing Room, Cabaret Stage and Silver-Service Restaurant, also the Chapel of Love and Loathe, Circus Stage and American Diner.

By 2003 Lost Vagueness had been well and truly found, with the field proving so popular that it had to be closed for heath and safety. This made it the first and only field to be closed, due to overcrowding, in 35 years of Glastonbury Festival history...