Thomas Treo, the popular and polemical Danish music critic, has blown up Roskilde Festival review for tabloid Ekstra Bladet.
“Before, people got smarter in Roskilde,” writes Treo, “Now you get stupider.”
“Teenagers have bad taste”
Treo blames the organizers for booking artists loved by teenagers when, according to him, “teenagers have bad taste in music”.
In conclusion, he says: “The festival has long been incurably ill. Now Roskilde is dead. ”
Restructuring affects Denmark’s HBO Max programming
Warner Bros. Discovery, the company following an April merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery Inc., has said it will no longer produce originals for HBO Max in Scandinavia, Central Europe, the Netherlands and Turkey. The company has also decided to remove a limited amount of original programming from the platform. These include the Danish series ‘Kamikaze’, which is one of the streaming service’s most recognized international shows to date, as well as the Romanian series ‘Ruxx’ and the Hungarian series ‘A besúgó’, both of which have been released within the last four months.
Museum visits fell last year
In 2021, Danish museums earned DKK 5.9 million less than in 2019 and DKK 540,000 less than in 2020, according to Statistics Denmark. The decline in visitors has been attributed to pandemic-related closures and reduced tourism, but the results of recent study of cultural habits suggests that museum visits may soon be on the rise. Statistics Denmark reported that visits to aquariums and zoos also fell in 2021.
The end of CPH PIX
CPH PIX, Denmark’s largest feature film festival, is no more. The Copenhagen Film Festival Foundation, which has run CPH PIX since 2008, has said that it is now dedicating its administrative and financial resources to developing its documentary film festival, CPH: DOX, and its children’s film festival, BUSTER.
Copenhagen Museum celebrates Pride 2022
The Copenhagen Museum has published a comprehensive program for Copenhagen Pride 2022. On 7, 14 and 21 August, guided walks in English will be offered to explore the LGTBQ + history in the Danish capital. Alternatively, you can explore the museum’s permanent exhibition throughout the month and listen to a soundtrack that dives into the stories of people “who have stood out from the norms of their time”.
Source: The Nordic Page