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Details of what's set to appear in Shangri-La, the new area at Glastonbury Festival which has replaced Lost Vagueness, have been announced and it's set to be as quirky as ever.

Some of the highlights include the Tilted Disco House, which will "make you feel like you’re tripping even if you gave up that sort of thing years ago" as everything will be upside down, Slumbarave which involves partying in pyjamas on Persian rugs and double beds and The First Class Lounge whereby champagne and other treats will be served.

In their usual ambiguous style, the organisers warn festival-goers to avoid the Boardwalk "if you’re of an overly sensitive disposition".

Following on from Madness' secret gig in a tent last year, the area will also see some of the acts which are headlining the main stages play acoustic sets.

It will also be the new home for the Strummerville stage which showcases unsigned talent.

The popular Trash City will move to the neighbouring field.

Festival within a festival

Shangri-La will be in the south-east corner of Worthy Farm, the area made infamous during the 1980s as being the place where travellers were allowed to hold their own mini-festival. Previously it was the Experimental Music Fields.

"Those fields are really special and for a few years some of the magic was lost, but Shangri-La is about re-creating excitement and mystery and magic," said Clare Woodcock from the festival.

She said the area will be just as popular with the festival-goers as what Lost Vagueness was, the area is simply being "reclaimed and re-invented'.

"The UK’s finest underground party culture of artistic radicals, urban bohemians and experimental artists have all archaically inhabited this sacred corner of the festival every year under one umbrella or another. This area of the festival is the section that historically enables the festival to maintain its edge in the face of commercialism," said Clare.

It is being organised by a new community interest company called The Rebel Alliance which includes some of the people who put together Lost Vagueness.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis said: "It's going to be brilliant because the people who are organising it were involved in the previous Lost Vagueness and have worked there for years and years and years and they have such amazing ideas and I think it's probably a good time to do something a little bit different but as equally fun and it'll be amazing I think, it really will."