Lost Vagueness has grown at Glastonbury

Organisers have been granted permission to hold the Vagueville Festival in Lewes, East Sussex, after their application was rejected last year.

The event on 4-5 September promises a ballroom and casino complete with outlandish entertainers on a farm site.

Its presence and reputation at Glastonbury has grown enormously.

It started off as a small group gathering away from the throng of the festival before opening a cabaret venue on the site in 1998.

This grew to become a casino in 2000, complete with ballroom and silver service restaurant where visitors were required to don full evening wear, while all around other festival-goers were decked out in camping gear - often covered with mud.

Mainly by word-of-mouth the festival within a festival became so large that by 2003 many were locked out of the area because of overcrowding, finally being closed down on health and safety grounds.

In 2004, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis gave over an even larger space to Lost Vagueness, allowing organisers to open the Paradise Lost Trailer Park for those wanting to get away from the scrum of the main festival.

Now it is their turn to put on their own extravaganza, after licensing authorities gave them the go ahead.